Subject: Poetry / American / General

Subject: Poetry / American / General

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Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds

|9780822959755| Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Terrance HayesWinner of the 2008 Poetry Award from Mississippi Institute of Arts and LettersAngela Ball’s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous. | Angela Ball| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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After the Fall

|9780822959809|Poems Old and New|After the Fall refers to the twin towers, and is Field’s ode to the events that transpired thereafter–the war in Iraq andthe attack on civil rights in America–as well as his own personal struggles over the indignities of aging.| Edward Field| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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The Plum Flower Dance

|9780822959793|Poems 1985 to 2005| 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. Huge. Prodigious.” —North American Review | Afaa Michael Weaver| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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The Floating Bridge

|9780822959892|The Floating Bridge, David Shumate’s second collection of prose poems, transports its readers over the chasm between the mundane and the enchanted. We traverse one bridge and find ourselves eavesdropping on Gertrude Stein and her gardener. We take the night bus to Gomorrah to have a look around. Halfway across, each bridge vanishes beneath our feet. Our world shifts. The commonplace begins to glow. We turn the page. Another bridge awaits.| David Shumate| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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Red Sugar

|9780822959878|In her third collection, Beatty travels inside the body to the blood that codes us, moving beyond the language of post-confessionialism into fourth-wave feminism, challenging notions of the “romantic” “and the “brutal” and how they exist within us and between us.| Jan Beatty| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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