Poetry
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I: New and Selected Poems [Paperback]
Toi Derricotte (Author)
£15.50ISBN: 9780822966289
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Toi Derricotte’s story is a hero’s journey - a poet earning her way home, to her own commanding powers. “I”: New and Selected Poems shows the reader both the closeness of the enemy and the poet’s inherent courage, inventiveness, and joy. It is a r... .... Learn More -
Peach State: Poems [Paperback]
Adrienne Su (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780822966562
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author’s hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region’s invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on... .... Learn More -
Randomly Moving Particles: Poems [Paperback]
Andrew Motion (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780822966555
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placemen... .... Learn More
Second Story: Poems [Paperback]
Denise Duhamel (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780822966531
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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When her Florida apartment is damaged by the ferocity of Hurricane Irma, Duhamel turns to Dante and terza rima, reconstructing the form into the long poem "Terza Irma." Throughout the book she investigates our near-catastrophic ecological and poli... .... Learn More
The Blues of Heaven: Poems [Paperback]
Barbara Ras (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780822966548
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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In The Blues of Heaven, Barbara Ras delivers her characteristic subjects with new daring that both rattles and beguiles. Here are poems of grief over her brother's death; doors to an idiosyncratic working-class childhood among Polish immigrants; l... .... Learn More
Holoholo: Poems [Paperback]
Barbara Hamby (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780822966586
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Holoholo is the Hawaiian word for walking out with no destination in mind. In the three sections of this book, Barbara Hamby walks out into the current American chaos with its inferno of wars, street violence, apocalyptic fantasies, and racial ten... .... Learn More
Selected Translations: 2000-2020 [Paperback]
Ilan Stavans (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780822966609
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other languages. His versions of Borges, Neruda, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Ferreira Gullar, Raúl Zurita, ... .... Learn More
Poemas del Amor/Love Poems: Poems [Paperback]
Idea Vilarino (Author)
£13.00ISBN: 9780822966258
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Eight years before Sylvia Plath published Ariel, the Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño released Poemas del Amor, a collection of confessional, passionate poetry dedicated to the novelist Juan Carlos Onetti. Both of her own merit and as part of the... .... Learn More
Earnest, Earnest?: Poems [Paperback]
Eleanor Boudreau (Author)
£11.50ISBN: 9780822966302
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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In Earnest, Earnest?, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest. The fact that her lover’s name is Earnest and that their relationship is fraught, raises questions of sincerity and irony, and whe... .... Learn More
The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019 [Hardback]
Alicia Ostriker (Author)
£23.50ISBN: 9780822946403
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration of the city street and the world “as a p... .... Learn More
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