Poetry / poems by individual poets
University of Pittsburgh Press SwitchingYard The
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University of Pittsburgh Press Chapel of Inadvertent Joy
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University of Pittsburgh Press Hyperboreal
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University of Pittsburgh Press Now Now
Book SynopsisNow, Now is concerned with questions of time and memory: how our perceptions are shaped, moment by moment, within the continuous meeting of past and future—of what happened, and what has not yet happened, but will.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Kimonos in the Closet
Book Synopsis"These are enormously arresting, odd, wryly humorous, gripping poems. And the variety of subject matter is astounding. I don't know when I've enjoyed reading a book so much."—David Budbill
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University of Pittsburgh Press Imperial
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University of Pittsburgh Press On the Street of Divine Love
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University of Pittsburgh Press Sound of the Ax Aphorisms and Poems by William Stafford Pitt Poetry Series
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University of Pittsburgh Press Bloom in Reverse
Book SynopsisBloom in Reverse moves from death to life as it chronicles the aftermath of a friend's suicide and the end of a turbulent relationship, working through devastation and loss while on a search for solace that spans from local bars to online dating and beyond to ultimately find true connection and sustaining love.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Nude Descending an Empire
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University of Pittsburgh Press Lucky Bones
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University of Pittsburgh Press Mimis Trapeze
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University of Pittsburgh Press Dottery The
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2013 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry The Dottery is a book of poetry arisen from a thought experiment—what if there was a school before birth where gender was taught?
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University of Pittsburgh Press City of Eternal Spring
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University of Pittsburgh Press Loose Strife
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University of Pittsburgh Press Republics The
Book Synopsis"The Republics is a massively brilliant new work, a leap in literature we have not seen. She has recorded like Alice Walker, Paul Celan, John Hershey, and Carolyn Forché some of the worst civilization has offered humankind and somehow made it art."—SapphireTrade ReviewPlaywright, editor, and poet Handal's fifth collection of poetry balances what she calls "flash reportages" with vivid lyric and image. Built out of a patchwork of powerful blocks of monologue or narrative, and threaded with Spanish and Haitian Creole, the book's texture parallels those of "a multicolored coat," "a mirror of unfinished voices," and "a scarf tangled in sepia." … The poems spring forth with a spontaneity and urgency that counterbalance the restrained flourishes of her previous work. Handal watches and waits to "catch what aches in beauty," telling stories of Haitians and Dominicans with searing honesty.… Handal artfully captures the desire, the rawness of life, and the "misery that burns the soul" of the people she encounters."" - Publishers Weekly""“The Republics is a startling piece of work. It’s tight and lyrical and surprising and, when it needs to be, heartbreaking. Nathalie Handal’s signature comes through loud and clear. It’s one of the most inventive books I’ve read by one of today’s most diverse writers."" - Patricia Smith
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University of Pittsburgh Press Immigrant Model
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University of Pittsburgh Press Nerve Of It The
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University of Pittsburgh Press Iconoscope
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University of Pittsburgh Press Boy with Thorn Pitt Poetry Series
Book SynopsisIn a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation—the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Wild Hundreds Pitt Poetry Series
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University of Pittsburgh Press Interstate
Book SynopsisInterstate is a collection of lyrical poems in four sections that concentrate thematically on animals, love and sex, compassion, and loss.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Hour of the Ox Pitt Poetry Series
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2015 Donald Hall Prize for PoetryHour of the Ox received the 2015 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by Crystal Ann Williams, who called it "a timeless collection written by a poet of exceptional talent and grace, a voice as tough as it is tender."Trade Review“Hour of the Ox is a timeless collection written by a poet of exceptional talent and grace, a voice as tough as it is tender. Poignant and beautifully composed, these elegies hum with emotional potency and moved me beyond measure. This immigrant story emerges through the hands, mouths, hearts, mournings, and voices of a family an ocean away and is exquisite, lyrical, and an incredible and rare gift.” —Crystal Ann Williams, judge; “A striking and rare combination of spare precision and rich details, Hour of the Ox tells a quiet, yet grand and universal tale of place and displacement, loss and renewal, illusion and disillusion. This is one of the most compelling books of poetry I’ve read in years, not simply because of its seamless craft, but more so because of its pure and urgent voice possessed by that ineffable quality that makes poetry, poetry.”—Richard Blanco, Presidential Inaugural Poet, author of Looking for The Gulf Motel; “Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s powerful debut introduces us to a world where the modern elegy sings across ocean and bone, and where it’s possible ""storms fanned from the ears of elephants."" This magnificent book is ""not a love song, nor a glossary of despair,"" but rather wholly enchanting and original, bearing the beauties and failures of the body and all of ""what the sea asks us to return.""”—Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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University of Pittsburgh Press Star Journal
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University of Pittsburgh Press Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy A Pitt Poetry Series
Book SynopsisA prose poetry/flash fiction collection that interrogates Bertrand Russell's classic A History of Western Philosophy through scathing wit and acute observation.Trade Review“Imagine, as Daniel Grandbois has, a conflation of Marxes (Karl and Groucho) and a hipster Plato, and you can begin to understand the enterprise of reimagining the history of Western philosophy as a series of comic summaries, complete with abstracts for the novice and infused with a storyteller’s sense of the need to entertain, while shedding light on the great intellectual enterprises from ancient to modern times. This book is a marvel.”—Christopher Kennedy
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University of Pittsburgh Press In the Volcanos Mouth
Book SynopsisBeneath their surface runs a current of violence, whether at the hands of fate or men: she writes "Everyone knows // what happens to women // who hitchhike, constantly // trying a door to the other world made of lake / bottom or low forest, abandoned house // even wild animals / have rejected."Trade Review“These poems do what the best poetry sometimes does: reveal and deepen our understanding of the strangeness in the ordinary. And do so in language clear as a bell.”—Ed Ochester, judge; “In the Volcano’s Mouth is rich with mysterious and heartrending images. Miriam Bird Greenberg blends scraps of the harshness of life, of what would be ugly in less skillful hands, with the beautiful, even beatific. These are poems that are acutely aware of the world: The flame/of a match that flares/at the tip of his cigarette/before he draws in his breath/deepens the darkness/that falls just beyond/ his illuminated face. Paul Eluard wrote, ""There is another world and it is in this one."" These poems give us a glimpse into that world. They are poems I will come back to for inspiration.” —Ellen Bass; “Although many of the poems in this haunted book are ""pastoral"" in a Classical sense, the natural world is not a place of peace and serenity. Rather, it’s unstable, a setting not devoid of meaning, but a realm where meaning is always on the move, like the many characters wandering through this book, and the mind of the poet who has carefully made it. These poems are harrowing and wounding, and yet retain a quiet, sustaining reserve of beauty.”—Maurice Manning
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University of Pittsburgh Press Primer
Book SynopsisIn his third poetry collection, Primer, Aaron Smith grapples with the ugly realities of the private self, in which desire feels more like a trap than fulfillment.Trade Review“Aaron Smith’s poems have always exuded a blue that’s simultaneously melancholy and bawdy. Primer sharpens his seemingly paradoxical blend of vigor and vulnerability. These marvelous poems are confrontational not simply for readers, but for the poet/self kissing the window between light and darkness, splendor and despair. Smith writes with more provocativeness and compassion than any poet of his generation.”—Terrance Hayes; “Shame is the crux, in Smith’s austere poems; an aching, inescapable force that closes the gay boy into his own body, making sex abject, until ""there’s not enough city//to fill you up."" The world may have changed, but we can’t help but carry into the new life the ineradicable weight of the past.”—Mark Doty; “In Primer, Aaron Smith has not only upped the ante, he’s been penetrated and eviscerated by it. These poems arouse me with their brazen, indecorous explicitness. The collection throbs with sex and the death wish, but also with wit and an exhilarative rage. This book makes me want to live bareback, to write ever-more-recklessly; it makes me not want my ""stupid, tiny life to end.""”—Diane Seuss
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University of Pittsburgh Press Jackknife
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University of Pittsburgh Press Scald
Book SynopsisWhen her "smart" phone keeps asking her to autocorrect her name to Denise Richards, Denise Duhamel begins a journey that takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion with her characteristic wit and insight. The poems in Scald engage feminism in two ways—committing to and battling with—various principles and beliefs.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Thin Wall The
Book SynopsisPast Praise for Mother Quiet: "The aim of poetry (and the higher kind of thriller) is to be unexpected and memorable. So a poem about death might treat it in a way that combines the bizarre and the banal: the Other Side as some kind of institution—a creepy hospital, an officious hotel or retirement home.
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University of Pittsburgh Press For the Scribe
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University of Pittsburgh Press Spirit Boxing
Book SynopsisIn Spirit Boxing, Weaver revisits his working class core. The veteran of fifteen years as a factory worker in his native Baltimore, he mines his own experience to build a wellspring of craft in poems that extend from his life to the lives that inhabit the whole landscape of the American working class.
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University of Pittsburgh Press No Way Out but Through
Book Synopsis"One marvels at the force of seeing in Schwartz's No Way Out But Through and cannot help but feel a particular gratitude for her abundant humor. Go all in with these poems; you'll reap unknown rewards. She possesses a quick-witted imagination that sanctifies memories and makes room for the wondrous nature of our cosmopolitan lights." —Major JacksonTrade ReviewOne marvels at the force of seeing in Schwartz’s No Way Out But Through and cannot help but feel a particular gratitude for her abundant humor. Go all in with these poems; you'll reap unknown rewards. She possesses a quick-witted imagination that sanctifies memories and makes room for the wondrous nature of our cosmopolitan lights"". - Major Jackson""Can mournfulness be wry? Can irony be heartfelt? Yes, when the writer is as insightful as Lynne Sharon Schwartz, her voice urgent with life even as she speaks about death. From Veronica Lake to her old boyfriends to lost family members, a whole peopled world is created for us here, at the intersection of memory and dream"". - Linda Pastan
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University of Pittsburgh Press Lets All Die Happy
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The poems in Let's All Die Happy explore apostasy, concerned with what happens after the beliefs and institutions which promised fulfillment leave us empty instead. Darkly humorous, the collection examines a patriarchal culture in which women are defined through their relationship to others.Trade ReviewWhat's most impressive in this powerful book is the female speaker's voice - it's striking because what it says is often unexpected, surprising, and exactly right."" - Ed Ochester, judge""Here in Let's All Die Happy we encounter a voice that is insightful, confident, and deliciously specific. In poems of dark domesticity, this book speaks to both the anchoring and erasure that come with mothering: Some weeks/ no one says my first name, no one's/ tongue flicks the last letter out.' It's a remarkable debut."" - Maggie Smith
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University of Pittsburgh Press Plasma
Book SynopsisBradley Paul’s third book, uses common objects, animals, people, and experiences as starting points to consider one’s connectivity to the world
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University of Pittsburgh Press Refuse
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
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University of Pittsburgh Press Sidebend World
Book SynopsisSidebend World explores with clarity and vividness a wide range of emotions—love to hate, tenderness to brutality
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University of Pittsburgh Press Even Then
Book Synopsis“His poetry strikes a hammer blow to the heart.”-James Deahl
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University of Pittsburgh Press Playlist
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University of Pittsburgh Press Now The
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Woman in the Corner
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University of Pittsburgh Press Bonfire Opera Poems Pitt Poetry Series
Book SynopsisPoems In Praise of the Impossible, Wild World and Its BeautyTrade Review“Bonfire Opera, Danusha Lameris’ ravishing second collection of poems, lives up to its title and then some. In melodic and sumptuous lines, she considers desire, sorrow, beauty and death. This is a collection you will want to keep close, ‘a reminder to begin, again, by listening carefully with the body’s rapt attention.”- Ellen Bass “No experience is more fulfilling than reading the work of a writer who is a master of her craft—of feeling like the book you are immersed in is an entire world. This is what it is like reading Danusha LamÉris’ Bonfire Opera. Everything is alive in these poems, even loss. Even death. In these finely crafted lyrics, worms, berries, skin, hawks, dirt and desire exist and even thrive in a symbiotic relationship that is a model for a new way of thinking. If a book can be smart and funny and dark and wise and vulnerable and beautiful all at the same time, this one is. In one of her best poems, LamÉris writes, ‘This is what I’ve made here, a garden, a feast.’ That’s for sure. Bonfire Opera is a feast you’ll want to devour and a garden that will never stop yielding.”- Dean Rader, University of San Francisco “The poems in Bonfire Opera frame a vibrant folk opera. Each offers part of an unfinished story, a balance of music and imagery. The storyteller is both an observer and participant, unraveling the story with the thread of what remains unspoken. In this outstanding series of poems, there is something waiting to be said, something to be revealed, as each poem draws us onward like a bird trying ‘to escape… throwing itself, again and again, against the stained glass.’ The bird and the ‘ghost child’ call out to each of us to ‘begin again.”- Colleen J. McElroy
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University of Pittsburgh Press Bring Now the Angels Poems Pitt Poetry Series
Book SynopsisPoetry with a Desire to Move Toward Transformation and Rebirth
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Painted Buntings Last Molt
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University of Pittsburgh Press Holiday in the Islands of Grief
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University of Pittsburgh Press Horsepower
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Body Wars
Book SynopsisThese roiling poems smack into walls of meditation, only to slide down the smooth concrete into the flatline of joy.Trade ReviewJan Beatty’s visceral urgency and courageous truth-telling is a gust of welcome fresh air. These poems are astoundingly alive!"—Tracy K. Smith, United States Poet Laureate and author of Words in the Water"What would it be like to be stormless?’ asks Jan Beatty early in The Body Wars, a collection riddled with bullets and natural disasters: fire storms, bush fires, fire tornadoes, flash floods, ‘deranged air.’ Man-made disasters, too: the heroin crisis, the aids pandemic, ‘Trump Care.’ But it is in the midst of crisis that Beatty finds her strength as artist, as witness, as poet. This is not a book that offers answers; rather, it offers important questions: ‘Can I tell you that we mourned?’ And ‘are there too many drowned trees?’ These are the questions we all must be asking ‘as we crack into the mad ocean.’ What an extraordinary book."—D.A. Powell, author of Repast: Tea, Lunch, Cocktails"Jan Beatty is my essential writer, whose work always makes me feel less alone and less afraid. She is fierce, fearless, harnessing a fury that is particular as it is familiar. Her startling imagery and dignified line hold that energy tight. When I think of Jan’s poetry I think—reliably and unapologetically feminist, unflinching especially in terms of violence, poverty, and sex in which women are subjects rather than objects."—Denise Duhamel
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University of Pittsburgh Press I New and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisShows the reader both the closeness of the enemy and the poet's inherent courage, inventiveness, and joy.
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