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Talking to Strangers Patricia Dobler The Brittingham Prize in Poetry Ronald Wallace, General Editor Winner of the 1986 Brittingham Prize in Poetry In her first book of poems, Patricia Dobler records her memories of the Ohio mill town where she grew up in the 1950s. but the poems range over time and the memories of others, as well: her immigrant Hungarian grandparents, her parent's tensions during hard times ("Years spilled on the kitchen table, / picked over like beans or old bills"), the dangers, losses, and occasional triumphs of hard-working men and women. Patricia Dobler has received the Annex 21: American Poetry Series Prize, 1981, and the Associated writing Program Anniversary Prize, 1984, and has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Talking to Strangers was awarded the 1986 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Dobler lives in Pittsburgh and teaches at both the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University. 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.)

October 1986 LC: 86-040046 PS 80 pp. Paper $14.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-10834-2 ADD TO CART

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