Subject: Poetry / American / General

Subject: Poetry / American / General

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Chapel of Inadvertent Joy

|9780822962601|”Reading Jeffrey McDaniel’s gorgeously dark and utterly compelling Chapel of Inadvertent Joy reminds me that he is probably the most important poet in America. The book in your hands was written by a master of metaphor and a poet of huge imagination and fierce ingenuity, a fine antidote to realism. Get this voice in your head.”—Major Jackson| Jeffrey McDaniel| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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Kimonos in the Closet

|9780822962649|”These are enormously arresting, odd, wryly humorous, gripping poems. And the variety of subject matter is astounding. I don’t know when I’ve enjoyed reading a book so much.”—David Budbill| David Shumate| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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Hyperboreal

|9780822962625| Winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Arthur Sze Hyperboreal originates from diasporas. It attempts to make sense of change and to prepare for cultural, climate, and political turns that are sure to continue. The poems originate from the hope that our lives may be enriched by the expression of and reflection on the cultural strengths inherent to indigenous culture. It concerns King Island, the ancestral home of the author’s family until the federal government’s Bureau of Indian Affairs forcibly and permanently relocated its residents. The poems work towards the assembly of an identity, both…

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Now, Now

|9780822962632| In Now, Now, Jennifer Maier’s second poetry collection, time is of the essence. Moving with quantum ease through the porous membranes of the past, present, and future, the speaker wonders: What is each moment but the swirling confluence (or shy first meeting) of past and future—of what happened, and what-has-not-yet-happened but will? Such phenomenological questions are sparked by ordinary events: a friend’s passion for jigsaw puzzles; an imagined conversation with a neighbor’s dog; a meditation on the uses of modern poetry. Here, in language at once elegant and agile, intimate and universal, the author probes beneath the surface of…

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Keeper

|9780822962564|The poems in Keeper explore, and long for, intimacy: with nature, with others, with the unknown. They delve into purely dark spaces (the insides of birdhouses and mailboxes, caves of prehistoric paintings) and in-between places, searching out, as Paul Eluard put it, the other world inside this one, pointing to the pervasive sensuality that connects all beings, and to the fact that essential goodness and sorrow often walk hand in hand.| Kasey Jueds| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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