University of Pittsburgh Press
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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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Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
$20.00 Add to cartWith a New Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna and a New Afterword by Tom Rea
Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii–named after industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie–was the most
- Author: Rea, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966700
- 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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More than Moonshine: Appalachian Recipes and Recollections
$24.00 Add to cartSidney Saylor Farr was a woman who knew Appalachia well. Born in Stoney Fork in southeastern Kentucky, she lived much of her life close to the mountains, among people whose roots are deep in the soil
- Series: Appalachian Recipes and Recollections
- Author: Farr, Sidney Saylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 30 1983
- ISBN10: 0822953471
- 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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The Descent of Artificial Intelligence: A Deep History of an Idea 400 Years in the Making
$45.00 Add to cartThe idea that a new technology could challenge human intelligence is as old as the warning from Socrates and Plato that written language eroded memory. With the emergence of generative artificial inte… [more below]
- Author: Donnelly, Kevin Padraic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 082294796X
- 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
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The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy
$22.00 Add to cartAndrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks m
- Series: Russian and East European Studies
- Author: Kozyrev, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0822966514
- Language: English
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Stop Lying: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartStop Lying is Aaron Smith’s most personal and vulnerable work yet. Revolving around the death of Smith’s mother and how the poet, a gay man, faces his upbringing where his sexuality was viewed a… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Smith, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967049
- Language: English
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The Selected Levis
$24.00 Add to cartEdited and with an Afterword by David St. John
When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as “the most gifted and determined young poet I ha- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Levis, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0822957930
- Language: English
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The Blues of Heaven: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartIn The Blues of Heaven, Barbara Ras delivers her characteristic subjects with new daring that both rattles and beguiles. Here are poems of grief over her brother’s death; doors to an idiosyncratic wor… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Ras, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966549
- Language: English
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The Rock That Is Not a Rabbit: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartMeditative Poems That Ask, What If “We Change and Change / But Don’t Change Back?”
Change arises as something both desired and mourned in poems that reckon with a world where perspectives blur, name- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Marks, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967154
- Language: English
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Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present
$45.00 Add to cartAlthough race–a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination–has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since th… [more below]
- Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
- Author: Cheng, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 082296659X
- Language: English
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Peach State: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist, 2022 Patterson Poetry Prize
Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author’s hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region’s invigor- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Su, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966565
- Language: English
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The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America
$28.00 Add to cart2020 Natan Notable BookWinner, 2020 Latino Book Awards Best Travel Book
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countrie… [more below]- Series: Pitt Latin American
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 082296631X
- Language: English
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Ka-Ching!
$20.00 Add to cartKa-Ching! is a book of poems that explores America’s obsession with money. It also includes a crown of sonnets about e-bay, sestinas on the subjects of Sean Penn and the main characters of fairytales,… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Duhamel, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0822960214
- Language: English
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Picnic, Lightning
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize
Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Ann- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Collins, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: January 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0822956705
- Language: English
