Subject: Poetry / American / General

Subject: Poetry / American / General

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Steeplechase

|9780822967651|Poems|Steeplechase explores multiple landscapes, including Mississippi and its many church steeples; countries known and unknown; cities and inhabitants both aspirational and lost. Its voice is humorous, bewildered, disillusioned, hopeful. The book’s temporal setting is the two years of extra life granted a partner after catastrophic illness and surgery: love’s last compelling season.| Angela Ball| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Places

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Winter Stars

|9780822968016|Revised Edition|Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. What emerges is not merely autobiography, but a biography of the reader, a representative life of our time.| Larry Levis Paisley Rekdal| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General

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Satan Says

|9780822948971|45th Anniversary Edition| A Stunning 45th Anniversary Release of Sharon Olds’s Satan Says in a Deluxe Hardcover Edition for Fans of Olds’s Poetry, All Poetry Enthusiasts, and Collectors Alike This 45th anniversary hardcover deluxe edition of the bestselling debut collection of poetry by Sharon Olds now includes an introduction by Diane Seuss. Satan Says was originally published in the Pitt Poetry Series in 1980 and received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. The dust-jacketed cloth has spot varnish embellishments, while the vibrant red cloth case contains decorative black pigment stamping on the spine and front cover. | Sharon Olds|…

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Dragstripping

|9780822967279|Poems|Dragstripping, 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 women disappear and reappear in the crosscut of gender. Transgressing into and out of poetic form, Beatty writes the fractured landscape of the unknown woman, breaking rules of grammar and subverting expected speech, mixing the real and unreal, and finding elation in a strange and shifting land.| Jan Beatty| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General Poetry / Women Authors

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2000 Blacks

|9780822967309|Poems| Finalist, 2025 Walcott Prize | Winner, 2024 Cave Canem Poetry Prize | Gold Medal, 2024 Florida Book Awards in Poetry | Longlist, 2024 Julie Suk Award 2000 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 explores Africa’s history and encounters with the Western world, providing poetic insight into the economic instability precipitated by the transatlantic slave trade and exploitation of mineral resources. Moving inward, the second sequence plumbs the poet’s complex relationship with his father, connecting his emotional…

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