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Winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Poetry PrizeAuthor: AJIBOLA. TOLASEPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Sep 03, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from the 2023 AWP Award Series.Author: Bret ShepardPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Oct 08, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

In this collection of poetry, Martha Collins relentlessly traces the history of scientific racism from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair through the eugenics movement of the 1920s.Author: Martha...

In Auction, her first poetry collection in eight years, the poet, novelist, and playwright Quan Barry travels the globe in her signature quest into the existential nature of experience. These poems...

The poems in Paul Hlava Ceballos's debut collection banana [ ] reveal the extractive relationship the United States has with the Americas and its people through poetic portraits of migrants, family,...

Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving--known as Dr. J--who dominated courts in the 1970s and '80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia '76ers. But this book-length...

Travel has always been Barbara Hamby's muse, and in Bird Odyssey she hits the road hard, riding a train across Siberia, taking a car trip from Memphis to New Orleans on Highway 61, and following The...

With a New Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna and a New Afterword by Tom Rea Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii?named after industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie?was the most...

Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man's land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same...

Powered by a fierce, compassionate intelligence, Brain Camp explores with clarity and vividness a wide spectrum of emotions?love to hate, tenderness to brutality?all from a perspective both universal...

This collection juxtaposes text from Google Search autocomplete with the intimate language of prayer. Corporate jargon co-exists with the incantatory and ancient ghazal form. Ahmed?s second book of...

?These words feel like experiences. Some are personal, most are enlightening, but all connect. Connect on a higher Level. A spiritual level.? ?Kendrick Lamar, Grammy Award-winning artist, and winner...

Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry...

In poems of compassion and social justice, Mihaela Moscaliuc probes borders and memory to work through, and further complicate, understandings of belonging--from places (including her native Romania)...

Richard Blanco, a Cuban raised in the United States, records his threefold burdens: learning and adapting to American culture, translating for family and friends, and maintaining his own roots. . . ...

Dark Traffic creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through them. With fine detail and observation, these poems work in some...

David Hernandez? 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...

A new collection of poetry from Jan Beatty, author of Body Wars.Author: Jan BeattyPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Sep 03, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

In Energy Corridor, Houston, Texas is the macabre avatar for a nation that has systematically stripped political and economic power from the middle and lower classes. In these poems the speaker...

For the Scribe, the ninth collection by award-winning poet David Wojahn, continues his explorations of the interstices between the public and the private, the historical and the personal. Poems of...

Holoholo is the Hawaiian word for walking out with no destination in mind. In the three sections of this book, Barbara Hamby walks out into the current American chaos with its inferno of wars, street...

Priest's debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter's waywardness as aspirational. Across the book's three sequences, we find the black-girl...

Hyperboreal (Pitt Poetry Series)Author: Joan Naviyuk KanePublisher: University Of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Oct 21, 2013Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The poems in Immigrant Model explore issues of individual and communal identity in the face of conflict, conflicting "truths" or histories, and uprootedness. They explore the notion of homeland as it...

Imperfect Present is a book for our current moment. By confronting the urgencies of daily life, from questions of identity to sexual abuse to racial unrest to the ubiquity of plastic, these poems...

Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability...

In his new poetry collection, Chard deNiord explores the paradoxical nature of unknowing. I WEPT WITH JOY ABOVE THE RIVER I wept with joy above the river. I wept with sorrow above the river. My tears...

In 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community...

From migrations to pop culture, loss to la dérive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape?borders and citizenship, hybrid identities and home, freedom and pleasure...