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Don't Explain Betsy Sholl The Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry Ronald Wallace, General Editor Winner of the 1997 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, Selected by Rita Dove "Don't 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 to—namely, 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 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 Sholl's poems have always possessed both of these things in abundance), but of something more raw and ineffable —call it courage. Don't Explain is an urgent and prophetic book."—David Wojahn Betsy Sholl grew up on the New Jersey shore and holds degrees from Bucknell University, the University of Rochester, and Vermont College. She has published four books of poetry, including Changing Faces, Appalachian Winter, and Rooms Overhead. The fourth, The Red Line, won the 1991 Associated Writing Programs Award for Poetry. Sholl teaches at the University of Southern Maine and at Vermont College. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

November 1997 80 pp.   6 x 9 The paperback edition ISBN 0-299-15724-5  is out of stock. Cloth $14.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-15720-3 ADD TO CART

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