Subject: Poetry / General

Subject: 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.| Liz 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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Late Empire

|9780822955306|Late Empire, David Wojahn’s most wide-ranging collection of poetry, affirms his status as one of the most compelling and original voices of his generation. In these poems, private history and public history mingle and merge in a way that is by turns deeply personal and elegiac. Centered around tow masterful elegies for the writers parents, the poems also treat an array of subjects familiar to us from news events but rarely examined by contemporary poetry.| David Wojahn| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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