{"product_id":"whirlwind-9780822962212","title":"Whirlwind","description":"Whirlwind is one woman's frank, witty, mordant, sexy look at the breakup of a marriage and its emotional aftermath. With her characteristic linguistic play and mixture of poetic registers and styles, Sharon Dolin takes her readers on an off-the-tracks emotional ride through the whirlwind that goes by the name of divorce. Hang on tight. Here poems are never merely confessional, but use formal aplomb to ride the white-heat rage, hurt, denial, reflection, regret, wistfulness, desire, and sexual passion as they go hurtling through the many stages of grief after the death of a relationship and the rebirth of a more vital self. Dolin tackles difficult subjects unflinchingly in her poems: such as betrayal and the shame of the one being betrayed, being a parent within a volatile breakup, as well as some startling poems on the reawakening of sexuality and an attention to the natural world and politics. In her poem that won a Pushcart Prize, she dons the mask of the Furies to confront her ex-husband and his lover. A journalist of her own heart, Sharon Dolin has written a brazen collection that seethes with the pressure of a story to tell: cathartic and thrilling in equal measure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharon Dolin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eManual for Living\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Whirlwind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBurn and Dodge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of a prose memoir titled \u003ci\u003eHitchcock Blonde\u003c\/i\u003e and two books of translation: \u003ci\u003eBook of Minutes \u003c\/i\u003eby Gemma Gorga and the prize-winning \u003ci\u003eLate to the House of Words: Selected Poems by Gemma Gorga\u003c\/i\u003e. A 2021 National Endowment for the Arts [SA1] Fellowship recipient, Fulbright Scholar, Pushcart Prize winner, and recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, she lives in New York City, where she teaches poetry workshops and is associate editor of Barrow Street Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51424444416274,"sku":"9780822962212","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff4e3c94-2acf-424b-b552-15c335aa15f5.jpg?v=1751377787","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/whirlwind-9780822962212","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}