|9780822957492|Selected And New Poems|This collection spans twenty-five years in the career of this highly regarded poet. It features poems from the books Stars, Calling the Dead,When There Are No Secrets, and Against Dreaming, along with seventeen new poems.| C. G. Hanzlicek| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

|9780822957614|New And Selected Poems 1969-1999|Kathleen Norris has touched readers throughout America with her thoughtful and provocative memoirs of faith: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, The Cloister Walk, and Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. She is equally admired for her poetry of engagement with the spiritual world and its landscapes. Journey includes poems from three previous books spanning thirty years, along with a generous selection of new work that continues her radically individual celebration of the sacredness of life.| Kathleen Norris| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

|9780822957690| Winner of the 2000 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize2002 finalist in poetry, Society of Midland Authors Quan Barry’s stunning debut collection has been compared to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel for the startling complexity of craft and the original sophisticated vision behind it. In these poems beauty is just as likely to be discovered on a radioactive atoll as in the existential questions raised by The Matrix. Asylum is a work concerned with giving voice to the displaced—both real and fictional. In “some refrains Sam would have played had he been asked” the piano player from Casablanca is fleshed out in…

|9780822957706|Cathy Song’s fourth collection of poetry unveils glimpses of the elusive but ever-present power of wisdom and compassion. Recognizing that we have the ability to create our own misery as well as our own bliss, she finds the unexpected in broken lives, despair, and even seemingly joyous occasions. Song’s poems are often, like a handful of water, “cold and impossibly / clear, unlike anything / you’ve ever held before.”| Cathy Song| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

|9780822957683|Joanie Mackowski’s debut collection of poetry is meditative, vivid, sometimes weird. Turning an idiosyncratic eye to the inhabitants of zoos and fish tanks, cafes and cemeteries, she illuminates details that make the familiar seem strange. An egret stands “still as a glass of milk”; iceberg lettuce is a “vegetable leviathan” that “extends beneath the dinner table / an unseen, monstrous green”; a bald eagle may “love a jet?— / or worship them all, or mock them, rigid / freaks that never linger.”| Joanie Mackowski| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General