Subject: Poetry / American / General

Subject: Poetry / American / General

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Windfall

|9780822957195|New and Selected Poems|Windfall includes poems from three previous books by Maggie Anderson, along with a generous selection of new work. In this collection we can see over two decades of the growth of a poet memorable for the clarity, strength, and urgency of her voice. Anderson’s poems entangle a language, a history, and a group of belongings, and she is both at home and a foreigner in the places she invokes. Every place in these poems seems inhabitable, yet the tensions of these deceptively quiet lines develop out of the clear reluctance or inability of the poet to sit…

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Zinc Fingers

|9780822957249|Poems A to Z|In Peter Meinke’s eleventh collection, he writes poems of humor and sadness. His poems speak truth with the self-assurance of a man willing to laugh at himself and, by extension, he invites us to laugh at ourselves as well.| Peter Meinke| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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She Didn’t Mean to Do It

|9780822957386|Winner of the 1999 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The thirty-three narrative, linguistically-adventurous poems in She Didn’t Mean To Do It range freely among styles and voices. Examining human emotions and behavior in all their contradictions, Daisy Fried turns a perceptive eye on those around her. Fried integrates metaphoric flights and idiosyncratic narrative, surprising us with the details—”I saw that the wisteria/in dusk its same color hung (heavier than/the breasts of stabbed and stabber ever would be)”—while her characters traipse across lines and pages. These are poems about human relationships, mostly romantic and sexual. They’re also about jobs and work:…

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Cathedral Of The North

|9780822957379|Set against a fantastic backdrop of religious imagery, myth and dreams, science fiction, and the stark realities of a northern factory town, Voisine's poems carefully detail the life of a common hero and his family.| Connie Voisine| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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The Tormented Mirror

|9780822957638|This is the first book in the Pitt Poetry Series by this popular and enigmatic poet, considered the foremost writer of prose poetry in America. In eleven collections over thirty years, Edson has created his own poetic genre, a surreal philosophical fable, easy to enter, but difficult to leave behind. In The Tormented Mirror, Edson continues and refines his form in seventy-three new poems.| Russell Edson| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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