Poetry

ISBN: 9780819567468
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize (2006)

Kamau Brathwaite's newest work, Born to Slow Horses, is a series of poetic meditations on islands and exile, language and ritual, and the force of personal... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819580184
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: The Driftless Series & Wesleyan Poetry Series
Deeply felt requiems from an internationally celebrated poet

Kamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Elegguas - a play on "elegy" ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819580177
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
A mystical masterwork

This book by the great Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite is characteristically sui generis, vatic, and strange, exhibiting ornery bravura. Tonally and typographically frenetic in the 'sycorax video style' he's been emp... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966258
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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 Urug... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966302
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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 ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822946403
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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
Winner of PEN America Jean Stein Award

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 flyin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966241
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
What would it take to be home in one’s body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain within and without us? Jan Beatty boldly answers that question by making a fire map of the body. These roiling poems smack into walls of meditation,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966197
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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