Poetry

ISBN: 9780822966722
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Winner of the 2020 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry

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 channels of the hospital and clini... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966685
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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In about:blank, Tracy Fuad builds a poetics of contemporary dissociation. Funny, plaintive, and cutting, this formally inventive debut probes alienation in place and in language through the author's consideration of her own relationship to Iraqi K... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966630
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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The poems of My Wilderness often take place on the wooded hillside in Oregon where Maxine Scates has lived since the mid-1970s. They chronicle how the woods, which were once a refuge, have turned into a landscape of change where trees once numerou... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819580450
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
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Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigration

The poems in Wendy Xu's third collection, The Past, fantasize uneasily about becoming a palatable lyric record of their namesake, while ultimately working to ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819580467
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
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Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigration

The poems in Wendy Xu's third collection, The Past, fantasize uneasily about becoming a palatable lyric record of their namesake, while ultimately working to ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966661
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Winner of the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

"Some writers write poetry to flex what they can do. Aurielle Marie writes reckoning poems themselves come to work. Gumbo Ya Ya kicks with this lit lit magic, this insistent ele... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813151076
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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Deep in the center of every tree, you'll find the heartwood. This wood is the very soul of a tree.

The characters in this book by poet Nikky Finney are the heartwood of their small Kentucky communities. You'll meet Buck Jones and Mae Benn... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966616
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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The Morning Line is David Lehman's most ambitious book to date, combining wit, quotidian charm, and off-the-cuff spontaneity of poems written with candid and moving meditations on life, love, aging, disease, friendship, chance, and the possibility... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966623
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Dark Traffic creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through them. With fine detail and observation, these poems work in some way like poetic weirs: readers of Kane’s work wi... .... Learn More