Accordion Breathing and Dancing

Ruth L. Schwartz

• Hardcover | Pitt Poetry Series
• A collection of poems about AIDS from Ruth L. Schwartz who won the 1994 Associated Writing Programs Series award in Poetry. Lees meer

Mystery Train

David Wojahn

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a s... Lees meer

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Toi Derricotte

• Hardcover | Pitt Poetry Series
• "The tough and tender intimacies of human bonds bind these marvelous new and selected poems." -Terrance Hayes Lees meer

On Foot, in Flames

Robert McDowell

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• Working in the narrative tradtion of Robinson, Frost and Jeffers, McDowell is part of the expansive peotry movement. His narrative poems deliver the d... Lees meer

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Toi Derricotte

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• How do you gain access to the power of parts of yourself you abhor, and make them sing with beauty, tenderness, and compassion? This is the record of ... Lees meer

What Things Are Made Of

Charles Harper Webb

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• Charles Harper Webb is celebrated for his use of humour; yet even his funniest poems rise, as the best comedy must, out of deep human drives, sorrows,... Lees meer

Spirit Cabinet

David Wojahn

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• Spirit Cabinet is an ambitious work, seamlessly mixing autobiography with subjects ranging from pop music to ancient Egypt, from Stalin's reading habi... Lees meer

Map of the Lost World, A

Rick Hilles

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• If it's largely true that all poets are love poets, then the poems of Rick Hilles's A Map of the Lost World find their unifying power in the love of f... Lees meer

My Father's Geography

Afaa Michael Weaver

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• Weaver's life studies and lyrics are imbued with a vivid sense of language, a vivid sense of the world, a vivid sense of their inseparability. And his... Lees meer

Here I Throw Down My Heart

Colleen McElroy

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• Here I Throw Down My Heart offers a view of twenty-first century boundaries where home can be as transitory as the weather, and continuously alters ou... Lees meer

Do Not Rise

Beth Bachmann

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• "Beth Bachmann's Temper was the last time I remember reading a first book by a poet so prodigally and - the word that came to my mind was - severely g... Lees meer

Trying to Surprise God

Peter Meinke

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• Trying to Surprise God is Peter Meinke's second book of poetry, and is characterized by an unusual and masterful range of effects, and by Meinke's uni... Lees meer

The Night Train and the Golden Bird

Peter Meinke

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• Although The Night Train and the Golden Bird is Peter Meinke’s first poetry collection, it is a seasoned performance - the result of careful deliber... Lees meer

American Poetry Now

• Hardcover | Pitt Poetry Series
• American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Throughout its forty-year history, the Pitt P... Lees meer

Horse Fair, The

Robin Becker

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• Becker investigates how marginalized individuals negotiate public and private spheres, while inventing sustainable communities. She also explores anti... Lees meer

Domain of Perfect Affection

Robin Becker

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• Robin Becker explores the conditions under which we experience and resist pleasure: in beauty salon, summer camp, beach, backyard or museum; New York,... Lees meer

Night Mowing

Chard deNiord

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• Influenced by the natural, the classical, and the biblical, these poems wrestle with the universal and the sacred, revealing an urge to move toward pu... Lees meer

Volcano Sequence, The

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

• Paperback | Pitt Poetry Series
• Bold, erotic, spiritual collection of poetry from a well-respected poet and critic, whose previous two books were both National Book Award finalists. Lees meer