Poetry

ISBN: 9780822966913
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
A rebuttal to Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Every Form of Ruin posits the Erinyes’ fury as righteous, understanding Clytemnestra’s rageful response to loss, and refusing Iphigenia’s relegation to a footnoted sacrifice. A fierce and darkly funny ex... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822967057
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
That Ship Has Sailed synthesizes the serious and comic to address sex, love, loss, death, belief, the afterlife, and the past. The poems are honest and direct without sacrificing “the uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts” that Keats singl... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822967040
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Stop Lying is Aaron Smith’s most personal and vulnerable work yet. Revolving around the death of Smith’s mother and how the poet, a gay man, faces his upbringing where his sexuality was viewed as sinful and unnatural, these poems plumb th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822967071
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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In Jesse Lee Kercheval’s sixth collection, I Want to Tell You, her searching, incantatory poems speak directly and forcefully to the reader in a voice that is by turns angry, elegiac, wry, or witty but always sharply alive. Crossing through the be... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822967033
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
The Anxiety Workbook is a full-length manuscript that explores contemporary anxiety, grief in its multitude of forms, and complicated familial dynamics via the lens of science and history while utilizing the language of therapy. These poe... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822967026
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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As Is gathers everyday poems written over time and mostly at the poet’s home in the Ridge and Valley province of northern Appalachia. This work pays attention to the world as it is with curiosity, candor, and delight. Seeking connection with other... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819500168
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
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A trailblazing lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor, and political activist whose work is deeply informed by socialist values, Irena Klepfisz is a vital and individual American voice. This book is the first complete collection of her work. For f... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966951
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
In Endurable Infinity, Tony Kitt creates his own tangential surrealism through wonder, intuition, and surprising connections. If the original surrealists of the 1930s sought to unleash the unconscious mind by bringing elements of dreams t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813196459
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Kentucky Voices
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When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark Expedition from the point of view of Clark's personal slave, York. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance... .... Learn More