Poetry

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: 9780822966647
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world - rivers, birds, stones - and with a "you" that is not a person, necessarily, but also not not a person: maybe God, maybe an aspect of the self, maybe neither or bo... .... 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: 9781950564187
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
In Girl Singer, poet Marianne Worthington often blurs the lines between the historical and the romantic, much like the artists to whose songs and stories she pays careful attention and homage. Locals or country music fans will recognize t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781950564194
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
In Girl Singer, poet Marianne Worthington often blurs the lines between the historical and the romantic, much like the artists to whose songs and stories she pays careful attention and homage. Locals or country music fans will recognize t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813151076
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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: 9780822966531
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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

ISBN: 9780822966548
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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 immi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966579
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
In poems of compassion and social justice, Mihaela Moscaliuc probes borders and memory to work through, and further complicate, understandings of belonging - from places (including her native Romania) and histories, to ways of knowing, loving, and... .... Learn More