Subject: Poetry / American / General

Subject: Poetry / American / General

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Open Interval

|9780822960362|Drawing upon intersections of astronomy and mathematics, history, literature, and lived experience, the poems in Open Interval locate the self in the interval between body and name.| Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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In Praise of Falling

|9780822960416|The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. They are both aware of the limitations of social structures and forcefully committed to breaking out of those traps, urging toward a better way of living. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century’s prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.| Cheryl Dumesnil| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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Temper

|9780822960409|Temper is at once violent and controlled, unflinching and unforgiving in temperament. The poems are mercilessly recursive, placing pressure on the lyric as a mode of both the elegiac and the ecstatic. The result is an enforced silence, urgent with grief.| Beth Bachmann| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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Shadow Ball

|9780822960423|New and Selected Poems|An accessible new and selected collection of poems for poetry insiders and general readers. Powerful, passionate, humorous, and often complex, yet fun to read. They go down easy, but pack a whallop.| Charles Harper Webb| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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The Book of Seventy

|9780822960515|Alicia Ostriker seizes the opportunity to take us where too few poets have been able to take us: into a domain of what our fabulists like to call the “golden years.” as we live longer, we become inevitably curious about the actual texture of these late years, curious about what happens in the soul. Out of that curiosity is a new kind of poetry born, an elderstile that has passion and irony, wisdom, folly, clarity and tenderness. In her keen engagement with the self and the world, Ostriker offers us a voice and a perspective that explore the territory of…

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