Pitt Poetry Series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series Editors: Terrance Hayes, New York University; Nancy Krygowski, Carnegie Mellon University; Jeffrey McDaniel, Sarah Lawrence College
Since its inception in 1967, the Pitt Poetry Series has been a vehicle for America’s finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Ross Gay, Etheridge Knight, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, and many others. Throughout its history, the Pitt Poetry Series has provided a voice for the diversity that is American poetry, representing poets from many backgrounds without allegiance to any one school or style.
Blue Like The Heavens
New and Selected Poems
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780822953586
Pub Date: 30 Jun 1984
Description:
“Aliveness is Gary Gildner’s striking quality,” Crystal McLean writes in the magazine New Letters, and thise selection of Gary Gildner’s previously published poems, plus eighteen new poems, demonstrates the aptness of that perception. Accessible and eminently readable, the poems in Blue Like the Heavens also possess great emotional depth. Readers who complain about the obscurity of contemporary American poetry will delight in this book.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780822953432
Pub Date: 26 Oct 1982
Description:
Shelton assembles the best of his previous work together with a selection of new poems.
Emplumada
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780822953272
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1981
Description:
Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes’s first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780822953333
Pub Date: 15 Oct 1981
Description:
The work of Michael Burkard has a rich interior quality different from that of any other voice in American poetry. He captures a sense of the mind revising and revealing itself, altering its perceptions.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 72
ISBN: 9780822953142
Pub Date: 30 Jun 1980
Description:
First published in 1980, the classic poetry of Sharon Olds’ Satan Says was introduced into college courses twenty years ago, and still maintains a wide usage today. Few first books have the power or vigor of design of Satan Says. Marilyn Hacker described it as “a daring and elegant first book.
This is a poetry which affirms and redeems the art.”
Sure Signs
New and Selected Poems
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780822953135
Pub Date: 30 Jun 1980
Description:
Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem.
Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation. Long admired and praised by other poets, Kooser is also accesible to the reader not familiar with contemporary poetry.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780822952961
Pub Date: 07 Nov 1978
Description:
In Shelton’s fourth collection of poems, he writes of the desert Southwest, and through it gives his unique view of the world. The poems speak of landscape, marriage, freedom, and death.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780822952633
Pub Date: 15 Dec 1975
Description:
Etai-Eken is a legend told in a series, a cycle of poems, which is to say, told in different languages. The action of the poems in the poem is their moving in and out of the legend by the changes of access to the larger legend; an access of the present in the ancient, of the present’s knowledge and experience of it.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780822953180
Pub Date: 11 Nov 1974
Description:
The Axion Esti is probably the most widely read volume of verse to have appeared in Greece since World War II and remains a classic today. Those who follow the music of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis have been especially drawn to Odysseus Elytis's work, his prose is widely considered a mirror to the revolutionary music of Theodorakis. The "autobiographical" elements are constantly colored by allusion to the history of Greece, thus, the poems express a contemporary consciousness fully resonant with those echoes of the past that have served most to shape the modern Greek experience.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780822952282
Pub Date: 15 Sep 1972
Description:
An International Poetry Forum Selection, translated from the Swedish by May Swenson with Leif Sjöberg. Tomas Tranströmer 2011 Nobel Laureate in Literature “Tomas Tranströmer, who is today one of Sweden’s most distinguished poets . .
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780822952190
Pub Date: 15 Feb 1971
Description:
Shelton says of his work: "I consider myself a regionalist and a surrealist. I have lived in the desert for ten years and hope that my work reflects that fact." In the forty-seven poems in this collection the poet moves backward and forward through time but always in the same landscape, the desert-mountains of southern Arizona, which foster his surrealistic view of his interior conflict.
He is followed by peculiarly insistent voices from the past.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9780822952145
Pub Date: 15 May 1970
Description:
C.D. Wright has described Roberson’s work as “lyric poetry of meticulous design and lasting emotional significance," comparing its musical qualities to the work of saxophonist Steve Lacy, jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
