Clojure: How to to recur upon exception?

Question

I am trying to execute a func several times before giving up upon exceptions. But it is not valid in Clojure to recur from catch block. How can this be achieved ?

(loop [tries 10]
  (try
    (might-throw-exception)
    (catch Exception e
      (when (pos? tries) (recur (dec tries))))))

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Cannot recur from catch/finally

The best I could find is the following clumsy solution (wrapping in func and calling it)

(defn do-it []
  (try
    (might-throw-exception)
    (catch Exception e nil)))

(loop [times 10]
  (when (and (nil? (do-it)) (pos? times))
    (recur (dec times))))