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Don't Explain (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry)
Don't Explain - Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry Author:Betsy Sholl Dont Explain accomplishes that most difficult of tasks: the weaving together of seemingly unrelated events so that revelation unfolds effortlessly. These poems are what narrative can aspire tonamely, the grace and ease of the lyric rhapsody. And yet the charm of the anecdotes, her facility with line and image, never take precedence over the... more » hard facts of our daily living.Rita Dove, Judge, Citation for 1997 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry These poems remind us that the most memorable verse is not merely the product of talent or skill (although Sholls poems have always possessed both of these things in abundance), but of something more raw and ineffablecall it courage. Dont Explain is an urgent and prophetic book.David Wojahn« less