Poetry

ISBN: 9780822966197
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Priest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational. Across the book’s three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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 whether both can ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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 paradi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966234
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Be Holding connects Dr. J’s famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage, to photography an... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819579362
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
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CARE Dress like you care! Eat like you care! Care like you care! You don't think apples just grow on trees, do you? * A fish taps a clam against a bony knob of coral to crack its shell – which demonstrates intelligence yes, but is th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819579690
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
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CAMINO IMAGINADO Blue leaves, hojas rotas in the shape of stars. Ni un "no" en tu vocabulario but for others; blue in place of green in the shape of Spain. Ojos the color of dirt, chocolate, coffee, time, azules las horas, hojas de horas van y ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819579683
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
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CAMINO IMAGINADO Blue leaves, hojas rotas in the shape of stars. Ni un "no" en tu vocabulario but for others; blue in place of green in the shape of Spain. Ojos the color of dirt, chocolate, coffee, time, azules las horas, hojas de horas van y ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819579973
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
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CARE Dress like you care! Eat like you care! Care like you care! You don't think apples just grow on trees, do you? * A fish taps a clam against a bony knob of coral to crack its shell – which demonstrates intelligence yes, but is ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813180410
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
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"Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme," remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of Corrections prisoner {#289-128}, early in this... .... Learn More