Subject: Poetry / American / General

Subject: Poetry / American / General

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Sidebend World

|9780822965619| With eleven full-length books and a spate of major prizes, Charles Harper Webb—once a well-kept secret in the poetry underground—has gained national recognition as a writer of poems that are complex yet reader-friendly. Sidebend World shows clearly why Webb has been called one of the most inventive, incisive, and psychologically astute poets writing in the U.S.A. today, as well as one of the most entertaining. Webb is celebrated for his use of humor; yet even his funniest poems rise, as the best humor must, from serious concerns. Powered by an uncompromising but compassionate intelligence and an abiding wonder at…

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no time like now

|9780822965824|Poems| In Codrescu’s own words: “I wrote my first book of poems, License to Carry a Gun (Big Table, 1970), when I first lived in New York City, 1967–1970. Those were troubled times and I was 21 years-old. Decades later the city has changed and the times are still troubled. These poems, 2016–2018, try to find out just how changed my dear city and how troubled my days.” | Andrei Codrescu| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General

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Playlist

|9780822965848|Poems|Apt and tender and candid.–Donald Revell; A New Collection from the editor of THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY| David Lehman| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General

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Every Ravening Thing

|9780822965756|Poems| Author of two previous collections of poetry: BLACK HOPE (1997) and ANTIDOTE FOR NIGHT (2015). de la O is also the publisher of the journal ASKEW. Keats at Fourteen She dozes, her nails fretted against the linen’s border,a hectic rose flaming each cheek. Her lips move, no words. The boy is guardian spirit, no one but he enters this sickroom where his mother fades, home finally after six years—failures,disgrace. Scarlet daughter, neighbors hiss, slave to appetite, but John is single-minded—she will live. No one but he gives her the tincture of mercury—one tenth of a grain daily, dabs the…

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Even Then

|9780822965817|Poems| EVEN THEN Who will mend the wings of the angelsafter the last great battle? For history will not endeven then,but continue unwindinginto the dark. ©2019 Michael Wurster. All rights reserved. | Michael Wurster| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General

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