Subject: Poetry / General

Subject: Poetry / General

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For Dear Life

|9780822963868|In For Dear Life, with accessibility, wit, and humor, Ronald Wallace evokes a wide variety of subjects that range from the traditional themes of lyric poetry—love, death, sex, the natural world, marriage, birth, childhood, music, religion, art—to the most unexpected and quirky narratives—an ode to excrement, a catalogue of comic one-liners, a celebratory testimonial to his teeth.| Ronald Wallace| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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The Invisible Bridge / El Puente Invisible

|9780822963820|Selected Poems of Circe Maia| Translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval A bilingual collection, The Invisible Bridge/El Puente Invisible gathers many of the luminous, deeply philosophical poems of Circe Maia, one of the few living poets left of the generation which brought Latin American writing to world prominence. | Circe Maia| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / Caribbean & Latin American Poetry / General

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Matters of the Sea / Cosas del mar

|9780822964001|A Poem Commemorating a New Era in US-Cuba Relations|Matters of the Sea / Cosas del mar is a commemorative bilingual chapbook that beautifully reproduces Richard Blanco’s stirring poem presented during the historic reopening ceremony of the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on August 14, 2015.”Matters of the Sea is one of the most emotionally complex and personal poems I’ve ever written, invested with all my love for the people of two countries that are part of my very being. As with the presidential inauguration in 2013, I am once again humbled and honored to participate as a poet in…

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Iconoscope

|9780822963806|New and Selected Poems|Collected here are poems from Peter Oresick’s previous books, beginning with The Story of Glass (1977), and to them are added 36 new poems called Under the Carpathians. His work—known for working class and Catholic themes—probes labor and social history, post-World War II America, Eastern European identity, Eastern Rite Catholicism, and Russian icons and fine art and especially Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.| Peter M. Oresick Judith Vollmer| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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Dear, Sincerely

|9780822964070|David Hernandez’s Dear, Sincerely is his most intimate and dynamic collection to date, bringing the reader into poems that are simultaneously personal and universal, and sometimes political. With his characteristic dreamlike imagery, inventive rhythms, and biting wit, Hernandez’s voice reaches toward us with an accessible profundity. Dear, Sincerely is an imaginative book that explores the Self, the collective We, the cosmos, and the murky division that separates one from the other.| David Hernandez| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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