The Art of Drowning

Billy Collins

• Hardcover | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• This collection of poems has a subject matter ranging from the gustatory pleasures of osso buco to an analysis of the handwriting of Keats; from the a... Lees meer

Applause

Carol Muske-Dukes

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• Applause is a collection of poems about joy and dread--mirroring the extremes of the contemporary American experience. Joy is defined in motherhood, s... Lees meer

Refuse

Julian Randall

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• Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, La... Lees meer

The Contracted World

Peter Meinke

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• The Contracted World includes representative poems from four of Peter Meinke's previous collections. In poems that show us what it is like to grow up ... Lees meer

On the Street of Divine Love

Barbara Hamby

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• Perhaps Paul Kareem Taylor said it best in his piece called On the Road Again: Barbara Hamby's American Odyssey: "Reading Barbara Hamby's poetry is li... Lees meer

Winter Stars

Larry Levis

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• Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. ... Lees meer

Milk Black Carbon

Joan Naviyuk Kane

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• Milk Black Carbon works against the narratives of dispossession and survival that mark the contemporary experience of many indigenous people, and Inui... Lees meer

The Niobe Poems

Kate Daniels

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• Kate Daniels's central myth is that of Niobe, the mother in Greek mythology whose children were killed by the gods because of her great pride in them.... Lees meer

The Nerve of It

Lynn Emanuel

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• Winner of the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets Emanuel's version of a "new and selected poems" turns convention on... Lees meer

Little Pharma

Laura Kolbe

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• The title Little Pharma is both a doppelgänger and a cri de coeur as the poet's dreamlike double, the character Little Pharma navigates the murky chan... Lees meer

Listening Long and Late

Peter Everwine

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• "What a rich array of music lies within Listening Long and Late. With refreshing authenticity, Everwine weds playfulness to practice, lyricism to narr... Lees meer

Cape Verdean Blues

Shauna Barbosa

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• The speaker in Cape Verdean Blues is an oracle walking down the street. Shauna Barbosa interrogates encounters and the weight of their space. Grounded... Lees meer

Interstate

Chard Deniord

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• Interstate is a collection of lyrical poems in four sections that concentrate thematically on animals, love and sex, compassion, and loss. A unifying ... Lees meer

Lucky Bones

Peter Meinke

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• In Lucky Bones, Peter Meinke moves fluidly through free and formal shapes, taking the reader on a tour through America in the 21st century: family, po... Lees meer

I Would Lie to You If I Could

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• I Would Lie To You If I Could contains interviews with nine eminent contemporary American poets (Natasha Trethewey, Jane Hirshfield, Martín Espada, St... Lees meer

View from a Temporary Window

Joanie Mackowski

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• "Joanie Mackowski's hypnotizing View from a Temporary Window is filled with Kafka-like transformations and metamorphoses and haunted by a sense of the... Lees meer

Natural Causes

Mark Cox

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• Death haunts the pages of Natural Causes, but so does compassion and love. There is little darkness here, and less despair, despite the abundance of c... Lees meer

Wrong

Reginald Shepherd

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• The poems of Reginald Shepherd's third book move among, mix, and manufacture stories, seeking to redefine the meaning of mythology. From the ruined re... Lees meer

Night Watch on the Chesapeake

Peter Meinke

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• Night Watch on the Chesapeake is Peter Meinke's third collection of poetry. The poems traverse a wide landscape of topics from playing baseball, the d... Lees meer

When Thy King Is a Boy

Ed Roberson

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• C.D. Wright has described Roberson's work as "lyric poetry of meticulous design and lasting emotional significance," comparing its musical qualities t... Lees meer

More Money Than God

Richard Michelson

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• How do we come to terms with loss? How do we find love after tragedy? How can art and language help us to cope with life, and honor the dead? How does... Lees meer

The Woman in the Corner

Nancy Krygowski

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• The Woman in the Corner keenly observes and gives voice to the ambiguities and astonishments that we often turn away from--in human relationships and ... Lees meer

Every Form of Ruin

Erin Adair-Hodges

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• A rebuttal to Aeschylus's Oresteia , Every Form of Ruin posits the Erinyes' fury as righteous, understanding Clytemnestra's rageful response to loss, ... Lees meer

Iconoscope

Peter Oresick

• Paperback | Engels | Pitt Poetry
• Collected here are poems from Peter Oresick's previous books, beginning with The Story of Glass (1977), and to them are added 36 new poems called Unde... Lees meer