|9780822966890|Poems| With humor and compassion, George Bilgere continues his explorations of the human predicament. The settings of these poems range from Cleveland to Berlin, from childhood to old age. Bilgere’s subject, in the largest sense, is America, in all its craziness, its haunted past, its imperiled future. But what really centers this book is the English language itself, which these poems endeavor to renew, reinvent, and reinvigorate. | George Bilgere| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General

|9780822952145|C.D. Wright has described Roberson’s work as “lyric poetry of meticulous design and lasting emotional significance,” comparing its musical qualities to the work of saxophonist Steve Lacy, jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.| Ed Roberson| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / African American Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

|9780822952190|Shelton says of his work: “I consider myself a regionalist and a surrealist. I have lived in the desert for ten years and hope that my work reflects that fact.” In the forty-seven poems in this collection the poet moves backward and forward through time but always in the same landscape, the desert-mountains of southern Arizona, which foster his surrealistic view of his interior conflict. He is followed by peculiarly insistent voices from the past.| Richard W. Shelton| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

|9780822952633|Etai-Eken is a legend told in a series, a cycle of poems, which is to say, told in different languages. The action of the poems in the poem is their moving in and out of the legend by the changes of access to the larger legend; an access of the present in the ancient, of the present’s knowledge and experience of it.| Ed Roberson| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / African American Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

|9780822952961|In Shelton’s fourth collection of poems, he writes of the desert Southwest, and through it gives his unique view of the world. The poems speak of landscape, marriage, freedom, and death.| Richard W. Shelton| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General