Subject: Poetry / General

Subject: Poetry / General

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Words for Empty and Words for Full

|9780822960775|”As always with a Bob Hicok book, fascinating and a book you sort of can’t help but pick up and suddenly, two hours later, find yourself having read straight through. I can think of just about no contemporary poets who publish such consistently great work.”—Corduroy Books| Bob Hicok| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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Noose and Hook

|9780822960591|“I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. Her aesthetic and artistic choices consistently invoke a complex hybrid poetics that radically reimagines the shape of our poetic discourse. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future. This is Lynn Emanuel's most exquisite and powerful book yet.”—David St. John| Lynn Emanuel| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry…

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Love and Strange Horses

|9780822960607| “Sometimes we have questions that seem to defy answers or even suppositions but then we find Love and Strange Horses to help us map out a course to continue loving life. A really wonderful, thoughtful read by an intriguing new voice.”—Nikki Giovanni | Nathalie Handal| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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American Fanatics

|9780822960799|A book of contemporary poetry exploring the fine, shifting line between faith—secular and spiritual faith—and fanaticism in an insecure age, American Fanatics is a lyrical, pop-culture inflected meditation on democracy, morality, beauty, commerce, and the cost of falling dreams.| Dorothy Barresi| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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The Animals All Are Gathering

|9780822961215| Winner of the 2009 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry These poems address issues of death and personal crisis by filtering them through an obsession with monsters and animals. After an initial loss, the speaker of these poems tries to utilize different personae—monsters, people stuck in horror movies—before turning his attention to the dreamlike animals that stalk him. Eventually, the speaker tries to resolve the conflicts among the figures by creating a cobbled-together garden in which they can coexist. | Bradley Paul| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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