|9780822953135|New and Selected Poems|Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation. Long admired and praised by other poets, Kooser is also accesible to the reader not familiar with contemporary poetry.| Ted Kooser| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

|9780822953333| The work of Michael Burkard has a rich interior quality different from that of any other voice in American poetry. He captures a sense of the mind revising and revealing itself, altering its perceptions. | Michael Burkard| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

|9780822953272|Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes’s first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience.| Lorna Dee Cervantes| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

|9780822953432|Shelton assembles the best of his previous work together with a selection of new poems.| Richard W. Shelton| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

|9780822953586|New and Selected Poems|“Aliveness is Gary Gildner’s striking quality,” Crystal McLean writes in the magazine New Letters, and thise selection of Gary Gildner’s previously published poems, plus eighteen new poems, demonstrates the aptness of that perception. Accessible and eminently readable, the poems in Blue Like the Heavens also possess great emotional depth. Readers who complain about the obscurity of contemporary American poetry will delight in this book.| Gary Gildner| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General