Subject: Poetry / American / General

Subject: Poetry / American / General

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The Makings of Happiness

|9780822954484|Wallace’s poems cover the range of human experience: music, religion, sex, art, childhood, adolescence, nuclear war, illness, and death. But it’s in his wit and good humor, against undercurrents of sorrow and grief that best characterize his poetry: part Emily Dickinson, and part Harpo Marx; part Woody Allen, and part Robert Frost.| Ronald Wallace| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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The Widening Spell of the Leaves

|9780822954545|The result is a book of discursive meditations that will amply reward the reader. Part travelogue, part pilgrimage in which the shrines remain hidden until they are recognized later, Larry Levis’s startling and complex fifth book of poems is about the enslavement to desire for personal freedom, and the awareness of its price.| Larry Levis| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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Liquid Paper

|9780822954552|New and Selected Poems|Peter Meinke was a master of traditional poetic forms long before the current interest in “the new formalism.” His work is, in turn, witty, comic, sane, deeply moving, and always readable. Liquid Paper collects the best of his previously published poems from the late 1960s on with a generous selection of new work.| Peter Meinke| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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South America Mi Hija

|9780822954507| When Shawn Doubiago graduated from high school, she and her mother Sharon, embarked on a journey through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Cuzco, Peru, standing before an alter where the Incas had sacrifced their female virgins, the daughter asked, “Are there any good men?” South American Mi Hija is Sharon Doubiago’s reply. Set amidst the mysteries and tragedies of South American culture, this book-length narrative poem is both an account of their journey and a feminist exploration of the struggle between the sexes. | Sharon Doubiago| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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A Space Filled with Moving

|9780822954675| Previous Praise for Maggie Anderson’s Cold Comfort “We are struck by the generosity of a voice that manages to bridge the gap between a personal and a world view, a balance that reveals a narrator who is of the world yet not overwhelmed by it.” —Prairie Schooner | Maggie Anderson| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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