American Poetry

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: 9780822966289
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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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 record of one woman's response to the repressive and fracturing forces around the subjects of race, class, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966159
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
In his new poetry collection, Chard deNiord explores the paradoxical nature of unknowing. .... Learn More

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: 9780822966050
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man’s land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house ful... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819577191
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positioned at a fulcrum, bringing a new life into the world even as her elders are passing on. In a time of massive environmental degradation, violence and abuse of... .... Learn More