University of Pittsburgh Press

  • The Undertaker’s Daughter

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    “Poems that stick with you like a song that won’t stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches

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    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Derricotte, Toi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: October 24 2011
    • ISBN10: 0822962004
    • Language: English
  • Octobers

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    Winner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

    Octobers traces the four great tumults of the author’s life, all of which originated in that jagged month of different years: The US invasion and occup

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    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Muradi, Sahar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 0822967081
    • Language: English
  • Small in Real Life: Stories

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    Winner of the 2023 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

    Small in Real Life invokes the myth and melancholy of Southern California glamor, of starry-eyed women and men striving for their own Hollywood shimmer

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    • Series: Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize
    • Author: Sather, Kelly
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 150
    • Publish Date: October 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 0822947994
    • Language: English
  • The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005

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    Winner of the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence

    “Weaver has crafted a virtual planet in this book with plenty of alternate geographies for readers of all flavors and stripes. Marvelous. Hug

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    • Series: Pitt Poetry (Paperback)
    • Author: Weaver, Afaa Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 123
    • Publish Date: October 21 2007
    • ISBN10: 0822959798
    • Language: English
  • Banana [ ]

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    Winner, Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
    Finalist, 2023 NBCC Award for Poetry
    Winner, 2023 Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award
    Finalist, 2023 Washington State Book Award in Poetry

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    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Hlava Ceballos, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: September 27 2022
    • ISBN10: 082296693X
    • Language: English
  • The Essential Etheridge Knight

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    Seminal African American poet Etheridge Knight did not begin writing poetry until a robbery conviction sent him to prison in 1960. A Korean War veteran who suffered a shrapnel wound that led to drug a

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Knight, Etheridge
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 124
    • Publish Date: December 05, 1986
    • ISBN10: 0822953781
    • Language: English
  • Auction: Poems

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    Poems about the Freedom That Arises When We Finally Let Go

    In Auction, her first poetry collection in eight years, the poet, novelist, and playwright Quan Barry travels the globe in her signature qu

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Barry, Quan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: September 26, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0822967170
    • Language: English
  • Be Holding: A Poem

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    Winner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Award
    Winner, 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry
    Winner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry
    Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving–known as

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Gay, Ross
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: September 08, 2020
    • ISBN10: 0822966239
    • Language: English
  • Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

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    Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category
    Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize

    Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category
    Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetr

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Gay, Ross
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: January 07, 2015
    • ISBN10: 0822963310
    • Language: English
  • Bonfire Opera: Poems

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    Winner, 2021 Northern California Book AwardFinalist, 2021 Patterson Poetry Prize
    Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilizati… [more below]

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Lameris, Danusha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 62
    • Publish Date: February 25 2020
    • ISBN10: 0822966050
    • Language: English
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