|9780822963837| Winner, Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeWinner, 2016 BCALA Literary AwardFinalist, 2015 NAACP Image AwardWinner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and the travel guides. Wild Hundreds is a book that displays the beauty of black survival and mourns the tragedy of black death. | Nate A. Marshall| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / African American Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

|9780822963813|In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation—the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence. The personal and political crash into one language here, gothic as it is supple, meditating on visual art and myth, to desire, the practice of lynching and Hurricane Katrina. Always at its center, though, is the poet himself—confessing a double song of pleasure and inevitable pain.| Rickey Laurentiis Terrance Hayes| Pitt Poetry…

|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

|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

|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…