Bøger i Pitt Poetry Series serien

Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were to transform those myths.

The poems of My Wilderness often take place on the wooded hillside in Oregon where Maxine Scates has lived since the mid-1970s.

In about:blank, Tracy Fuad builds a poetics of contemporary dissociation. about:blank - the title of which is the universal URL for a blank web page - complicates questions of longing and belonging.

Winner of the 2020 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry.

Here she \u2018studies' Jewish history, Jewish passion, Jewish contradictions, in a compendium of learned, crafted, earthy and outward-looking poems that show how this quest has informed and enriched her whole poet's trajectory.\u201d-Marilyn Hacker

Hello I Must Be Going, David Hernandez's fifth collection of poems, offers a unique take on poetry informed by works of art. With narrative and lyrical brushstrokes, Hernandez crafts vibrant landscapes that depict the chaos of the modern world and the beauty entwined within it.

This collection of poems reflects multiple voices around the theme of connections.

The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world - rivers, birds, stones - and with a "you" that is not a person, necessarily, but also not not a person: maybe God, maybe an aspect of the self, maybe neither or both.

A collection of poems examining life from a quasi-science-fiction perspective.

Prelude explores the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood and adolescence of Saint Catherine of Siena

New poems from the author of Imperial, and Blood Pages.

With fine detail and observation, these poems work in some way like poetic weirs: readers of Kane's work will see the artic and subarctic, but also, more broadly, America, and the exigencies of motherhood, indigenous experience, feminism, and climate crises alongside the near-necropastoral of misogyny, violence, and systemic failures.

The Morning Line is David Lehman's most ambitious book to date, combining wit, quotidian charm, and off-the-cuff spontaneity of poems written with candid and moving meditations on life, love, aging, disease, friendship, chance, and the possibility of redemption in a godless age.

A New Collection on the Complexities of Modern Life from an Award-Winning Poet

A Lament for the Casualties of Corporate Destruction, Racism, War, and Personal Loss

Winner of the 2021 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

An Exploration of the Collective Present Moment through the Combination of Scientific Fact and the Lyrical

Poetry That Demands We Face the Lies We Tell Ourselves and Others

A Refutation of Silence and Choosing of Operatic Anger over Abuse and Marginalization

Poems that Zoom In on the Mysterious and Transformative Nature of Expression

"In The World Falls Away, Wanda Coleman's poems glow with an almost radioactive edginess. Yet, there is also range and substance giving her intense American voice staying power. To use, Whitman's word, her work has 'amplitude.'" -Diane Wakoski

Effervescent Surrealist Poems That Imagine and Reimagine What Is Possible

Winner of the 2023 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

A Bilingual Collection of Poems for a Dispirited Society

Poems about the Freedom That Arises When We Finally Let Go

Meditative Poems That Ask, What If "We Change and Change / But Don't Change Back?"

Intensely Emotional and Bitingly Witty Poems about Grief, Family, and Joy

Winner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

A Poetic Autobiography--Intimate, Sorrowful, and Funny