Pitt Poetry
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Second Story: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWhen 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 investi… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Duhamel, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966530
- Language: English
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Absent Here: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartLandscape and language drive the poems in Absent Here, which explore loss, community, the changing environment, and whiteness of skin and scenery against the backdrop of the Alaskan North Slope of the… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Shepard, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967286
- Language: English
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A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartWritten over a decade while the author lived on four continents, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye maps the cultural legacies we cherish against those we reject. Playful and wrenching by turns, wit… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Pelizzon, V. Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967219
- Language: English
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Dragstripping: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartDragstripping, Jan Beatty’s seventh collection of poems, takes readers to the literal dragstrip, the metaphorical dragstrip of the body, and the strip club, where the ecstatic is rescripted and where … [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Beatty, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967278
- Language: English
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Still City: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartNamed as One of Financial Times‘s Best Summer Poetry Books of 2024 The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality,… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Maksymchuk, Oksana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967359
- Language: English
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The Selected Shepherd: Poems
$30.00 Add to cartDrawing from all six of his collections, The Selected Shepherd offers a new retrospective on the work of an important and sometimes controversial Black, gay poet. Although well known for his erotic po… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Shepherd, Reginald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0822948214
- Language: English
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2000 Blacks: Poems
$18.00 Add to cart2000 Blacks probes the complexity of economic and politically motivated migration from Africa, which has been referred to as “African Brain Drain.” In the first sequence of poems, Ajibola Tolase explo… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Tolase, Ajibola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967308
- Language: English
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Querida: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartQuerida offers a place-based lyrical meditation on the poet’s immigrant parents, collective memory, language, and family in the San Fernando region of Los Angeles, California. Through a constellation … [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Osorio, Nathan Xavier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0822948370
- Language: English
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Scald
$20.00 Add to cartWhen her “smart” phone keeps asking her to autocorrect her name to Denise Richards, Denise Duhamel begins a journey that takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion with her characteristic wit… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Duhamel, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0822964503
- Language: English
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More Money Than God
$20.00 Add to cartHow do we come to terms with loss? How do we find love after tragedy? How can art and language help us to cope with life, and honor the dead? How does one act responsibly in a world that is both beaut… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Michelson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0822963337
- Language: English
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Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems
$20.00 Add to cartA selection of poetry by Denise Duhamel, in which she suffers postmodernist angst when using the therapeutic I. The volume features poems from Duhamel’s five previous collections, which include Smile … [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Duhamel, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 22 2001
- ISBN10: 0822957620
- Language: English
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City of a Hundred Fires
$20.00 Add to cart“Richard Blanco, a Cuban raised in the United States, records his threefold burdens: learning and adapting to American culture, translating for family and friends, and maintaining his own roots. . . …. [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Blanco, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0822956837
- Language: English
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Cemetery Ink: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartIn 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) … [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Moscaliuc, Mihaela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966573
- Language: English
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Life in a Country Album: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWinner, 2020 Palestine Book AwardFinalist, 2019 Foreword Indies Award
From migrations to pop culture, loss to la d駻ive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape–bord
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Handal, Nathalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 115
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0822965941
- Language: English
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Blowout
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award.
In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers asked back in 1954–“Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” Duhamel’s poems rea… [more below]- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Duhamel, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0822962365
- Language: English
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Two and Two
$20.00 Add to cartDenise Duhamel’s much anticipated new collection begins with a revisionist tale–Noah is married to Joan of Arc–in a poem about America’s often flawed sense of history. Throughout Two and Two, double
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Duhamel, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: February 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0822958716
- Language: English
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Take Me to Stavanger: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA Bilingual Collection of Poems for a Dispirited Society
Amid the din of Russia’s patriotic sentiments and Instagram instants, is there any room left for the voice of a poet? Despite the many entert- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Polonskaya, Anzhelina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967162
- Language: English
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Cape Verdean Blues
$20.00 Add to cart“These words feel like experiences. Some are personal, most are enlightening, but all connect. Connect on a higher Level. A spiritual level.” –Kendrick Lamar, Grammy Award-winning artist, and winner… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Barbosa, Shauna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0822965216
- Language: English
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I Can’t Talk about the Trees Without the Blood
$18.00 Add to cartFor poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has le… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Clark, Tiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0822965585
- Language: English
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Dark Traffic: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist, 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Dark Traffic creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through them. With fine detail- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Kane, Joan Naviyuk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 082296662X
- Language: English
