Subject: Poetry / General

Subject: Poetry / General

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In Evidence

|9780822953760|Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps|In Evidence is a collection of poems in the voices of allied troops who liberated Nazi concentration camps in Europe in the sprong of 1945. Barbara Helfgott Hyett heard poems in the eyewitness testimony of United States soldiers. She has shaped the words of thirty speakers into a songle narrative, a single voice.| Barbara Helfgott Hyett|| History / Holocaust Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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The Imaginary Lover

|9780822953852| • Winner of the 1987 William Carlos Williams Award presented by the Poetry Society of America With The Imaginary Lover, Alicia Suskin Ostriker takes her place among the most striking and original poets whose work is informed by feminist consciousness. Her characterization of the best poetry by women, in the New York Times Book Review, aptly describes this book: “intimate rather than remote, passionate rather than distant, defying divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader.” To read her poems is to “discover not only more of what it means to be a…

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Cold Comfort

|9780822953845|Cold Comfort is a book of poems written out of deep affection and concern for the world in a dangerous time. An urbane stylist, Anderson characteristically focuses on rural and small-town America, where the events of personal history intersect those of the larger world.| Maggie Anderson| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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The Essential Etheridge Knight

|9780822953784|Winner of the 1987 American Book Award The Essential Etheridge Knight is a selection of the best work by one of the country’s most prominent and liveliest poets. It brings together poems from Knight’s previously published books and a section of new poems.| Etheridge Knight| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / African American Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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Night Watch on the Chesapeake

|9780822953906|Night Watch on the Chesapeake is Peter Meinke’s third collection of poetry. The poems traverse a wide landscape of topics from playing baseball, the death of a friend, divorce, and even poetry itself.| Peter Meinke| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General

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