Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

Every Form of Ruin

Poems

By Erin Adair-Hodges

A Refutation of Silence and Choosing of Operatic Anger over Abuse and Marginalization

I Want to Tell You

By Jesse Lee Kercheval

Poems That Urgently Remind Us Love Keeps Us Alive

As Is

Poems

By Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Intimate Memories and Public Histories Sustain a Woman’s Quest for Meaning and Peace

Imperfect Present

Poems

By Sharon Dolin

A New Collection on the Complexities of Modern Life from an Award-Winning Poet

Brown Girl Chromatography

By Anuradha Bhowmik

Winner of the 2021 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Casualty Reports

Poems

By Martha Collins

A Lament for the Casualties of Corporate Destruction, Racism, War, and Personal Loss

Because What Else Could I Do

Poems

By Martha Collins

An Intimate Expression of a Poet’s Grief

Life in a Country Album

Poems

By Nathalie Handal

A Soundtrack of the Global Cultural Landscape from Nathalie Handal’s Unique Perspective

Some Glad Morning

Poems

By Barbara Crooker

Teetering Between Joy and Despair, Faith and Doubt, and the Disconnect Between Lived Experience and the Written Word

Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration of the city street and the world “as a paradise might be / if we had eyes to see,” to ...

Earnest, Earnest?

Poems

By Eleanor Boudreau

Winner of the 2019 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.

The Body Wars

Poems

By Jan Beatty

What would it take to be home in one’s body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain within and without us? Jan Beatty boldly answers that question by making a fire map of the body. These roiling poems smack into walls of meditation, only to slide ...