Serious Pink

Sharon Dolin. Marsh Hawk Press, $15 (82pp) ISBN 978-0-9713332-6-0

""Periwinkle drowns pentimenti-almost/ could be a headline,"" notes the speaker of Serious Pink, Sharon Dolin's collection of poems written from art work by Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell and others: ""Rosettes/ are not poppies/ but moments of attention/ burned into the wall.""

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