Poetry

ISBN: 9780822966067
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability of the black male body, aging, and urban decay. ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966043
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
The Woman in the Corner keenly observes and gives voice to the ambiguities and astonishments that we often turn away from - in human relationships and in our own unruly hearts. In poems that speak fearlessly about sex and grief, mothers and daught... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966098
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
The Painted Bunting’s Last Molt explores fatherhood, parenting, and separation anxiety; and the ways in which time and memory are both a prison and a giver of joy. Fifteen years in the making, Virgil Suárez’s new collection uses his mother’s retur... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966104
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
In his new collection, Jeffrey McDaniel confronts the insular and expansive qualities of loss. With electric language and surrealistic imagery, McDaniel’s poems deliver the quotidian elements of middle-age life while weaving us in & out of childho... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966074
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
This collection juxtaposes text from Google Search autocomplete with the intimate language of prayer. Corporate jargon co-exists with the incantatory and ancient ghazal form. Ahmed’s second book of poetry explores the terrain of loss - of a belove... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819579843
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new - and in his own words "dangerous" - hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813180410
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
"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

ISBN: 9780813179889
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
"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

ISBN: 9780819579898
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Mother Country The shades open for landing, I see the pandan-leafed interior expanding towards the edge of a relieved horizon. Down along the banks of the Ciliwung are slums I had forgotten, the river like a loosely sutured wound. As we begin o... .... Learn More