Subject: Poetry / American / General

Subject: Poetry / American / General

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Sleeping Preacher

|9780822954804| Winner of the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. The poems in this book deal with life in a Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the tensions and conflicts that exist for the speaker as she tries to be true to two worlds, the other being New York City. | Julia Spicher Kasdorf| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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The Flying Garcias

|9780822954996| “I am reminded of the Argentinean writers Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, but with sunglasses and in California. The Flying Garcias is a sure voice and a fine book.” —Alberto Ríos | Richard Garcia| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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The New World

|9780822955160| “A great poem of this end of our century. It is masterfully structured in recurring themes and voices which build on and off each other. Gardinier is above all a poet whose language and images are completely integrated so that in Keats’s words, every rift is laden with ore. I found this a thrilling poem to read.”–Adrienne Rich | Suzanne Gardinier| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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Children Of Paradise

|9780822955023|A book of poems about “children” in the widest sense–from children of the Nazi-torn Warsaw ghettos to the American poor, as well as poems of domesticity, love, and daily life.| Lizbeth M. Rosenberg| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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Weather Central

|9780822955276|Ted Kooser’s third book in the Pitt Poetry Series is a selection of poems published in literary journals over a ten year period by a writer whose work has been praised for its clarity and accessiblity, its mastery of figurative language, and its warmth and charm.| Ted Kooser| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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