University of Pittsburgh Press

Little Pharma: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)Author: Laura KolbePublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Oct 26, 2021Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In poems initially inspired by Aeschylus' fifth-century B.C. trilogy "The Oresteia," which chronicles the fall of the House of Atreides, Loose Strife investigates the classical sense of loose strife,...

Mal Goode (1908-1995) became network news's first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the...

Milk Black Carbon works against the narratives of dispossession and survival that mark the contemporary experience of many indigenous people, and Inuit in particular. In this collection,...

How do we come to terms with loss? How do we find love after tragedy? How can art and language help us to cope with life, and honor the dead? How does one act responsibly in a world that is both...

In Codrescu's own words: "I wrote my first book of poems, License to Carry a Gun (Big Table, 1970), when I first lived in New York City, 1967-1970. Those were troubled times and I was 21 years-old...

Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers on the brink of discovery?and decision. Set in small-town North Carolina, or featuring eager...

Obligations to the Wounded : StoriesAuthor: Mubanga KalimamukwentoPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Oct 08, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Winner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for PoetryAuthor: Muradi SaharPublisher: University Of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Oct 10, 2023Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Orbit connects the intimate with what is farthest from us, mixing what we can imagine with what is daily and near. Landscapes stretch from stable and fulfilling domestic interiors to the destiny of...

Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by...

Eight years before Sylvia Plath published Ariel, the Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño released Poemas del Amor, a collection of confessional, passionate poetry dedicated to the novelist Juan Carlos...

Winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeAuthor: Nathan Xavier OsorioPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Sep 10, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

When her Florida apartment is damaged by the ferocity of Hurricane Irma, Duhamel turns to Dante and terza rima, reconstructing the form into the long poem "Terza Irma." Throughout the book she...

Winner of the 2023 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Small in Real Life invokes the myth and melancholy of Southern California glamor, of starry-eyed women and men striving for their own Hollywood shimmer...

Some Glad Morning, Barbara Crooker?s ninth book of poetry, teeters between joy and despair, faith and doubt, the disconnect between lived experience and the written word. Primarily a lyric poet,...

Spilled And Gone: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)Author: Jessica GreenbaumPublisher: University Of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Apr 16, 2019Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Talking Pillow celebrates love as amazement, sustenance, and the progenitor of scarce-believable loss. The book centers around the sudden death of the author? long-time partner and travels outward to...

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903-1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women's rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying the borders of gender,...

Becker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places--never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems speak, in ardent voices, about our...

Seminal African American poet Etheridge Knight did not begin writing poetry until a robbery conviction sent him to prison in 1960. A Korean War veteran who suffered a shrapnel wound that led to drug...

The Now describes the unique, and sometimes baffling, moment in which we live, a time defined by an immediate future of online wonderments, fake news, multiple personalities, data economy, gene...

The Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin American : Informal Political Practices and Democracy in Unitary CountriesAuthor: Tomas DosekPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Mar...

The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly in literature. From the colonial georgic to Pablo...

tkAuthor: Corey MarksPublisher: University Of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Oct 10, 2023Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0822967154ISBN-13: 9780822967156

The Wall is a poetic exploration--across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical--of the U.S.-Mexican wall dividing the two civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin,...

A new collection of poems from the award winning author of Velocity.Author: Nancy KrygowskiPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: February 25, 2020Number of Pages: 75...

Winner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (poetry category) Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award (poetry category) Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Finalist,...

The botanical drawings of the American naturalist William Bartram.Author: Elizabeth A AthensPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublication Date: Sep 24, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...