University of Pittsburgh Press
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The Law of Truly Large Numbers: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartThe Law of Truly Large Numbers is a book about coming to terms with loss and the arrival of unexpected, perhaps undeserved, love. Based on the statistical principle that in a truly large sample set an… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Kimbrell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0822967375
- Language: English
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Guide to the Mammals of Pennsylvania
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the tiny shrew to the black bear, Pennsylvania’s hills and valleys teem with sixty-three species of wild mammals. Written in lively prose, the Guide to the Mammals of Pennsylvania introduces read… [more below]
- Series: Regional
- Author: Merritt, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0822953935
- Language: English
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Hour of the Ox
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2015 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, Hour of the Ox received the 2015 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by Crystal Ann Williams, who called it “a timeless collection written by a … [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Cancio-Bello, Marci Calabretta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 12 2016
- ISBN10: 082296421X
- Language: English
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Pink Lady: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWhen her mother agrees to enter a Rhode Island nursing home in December of 2019, Denise Duhamel promises she’ll visit at least once a month. By March of 2020, everyone is in lockdown. The elegies in P… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Duhamel, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0822967367
- Language: English
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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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Andy Warhol’s Mother: The Woman Behind the Artist
$40.00 Add to cartWhile biographers of Andy Warhol have long recognized his mother as a significant influence on his life and art, Julia Warhola’s story has not yet been told. As an American immigrant who was born in a… [more below]
- Series: Russian and East European Studies
- Author: Rusinko, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0822948400
- 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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Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer
$35.00 Add to cartMal Goode (1908-1995) became network news’s first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the Univers… [more below]
- Author: Tsoukas, Liann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0822948222
- 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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Kaufmann’s: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community
- Author: Pitz, Marylynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967138
- 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
