|9780822967675|Poems|Antediluvian engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality.| Kameryn Alexa Carter| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / African American Poetry / General

|9780822967682|Poems|Fire Series began as an experiment in working recursively through the specialized diction of fire investigators, using technical phrases such as “structured fire,” “foliage freeze,” and “fire interval” to generate poems.| Kelly Hoffer| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / General

|9780822967651|Poems|Steeplechase explores multiple landscapes, including Mississippi and its many church steeples; countries known and unknown; cities and inhabitants both aspirational and lost. Its voice is humorous, bewildered, disillusioned, hopeful. The book’s temporal setting is the two years of extra life granted a partner after catastrophic illness and surgery: love’s last compelling season. It celebrates the inexhaustibility of language.| Angela Ball| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / General

|9780822967521|Poems|The world is burning with fire and hatred, but at the same time it is filled with love and incredible beauty. The poems in Burn tango with why the world is so beautiful and terrible at the same time. Hamby asserts that everything is a mess—how do we walk through it laughing and crying? Sometimes you look back and think, “How was I so lucky? I could have died a thousand times, but I didn’t. But I will.”| Barbara Hamby| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / General

|9780822967484|Poems| Winner of the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry Part elegy, part poetry of witness, and part poetry of exile, No Rhododendron is a lament to the poet-speaker’s father and fatherland and a grief-wrought love letter to his mother and mother tongue. The collection is haunted by an existential question about Shertok’s oral mother tongue, Tamang: How do you write about a language that has no script? Exploring the erasure, ambiguity, multiplicity, violence, and unknowability signified by “X,” the poems dwell on the lip of a new ghost language, which ultimately fails itself. The polyphonal witnessing of the decade-long…