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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh Press
Mystery Train
David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly…
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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh Press
Night Watch On The Chesapeake
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…
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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh Press
No Heaven
Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s voice has long been acknowledged as a major force in American poetry. In No Heaven, her eleventh collection, she takes a hint from John Lennon’s “Imagine” to…
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BC, POE005010, Southern Illinois University Press
Pelican Tracks
Pelican Tracks is a book of poems with a homing instinct. Elton Glaser travels a restless circuit between his native Louisiana and his adopted home of Ohio, from the “spice…
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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh Press
Queen for a Day
“Duhamel is an entertainer, as her new, retrospective collection confirms. . . . Throughout the book, each poem is utterly engaging, as hard to abandon as a chapter in a…
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BC, POE000000, POE003000, POE005010, Southern Illinois University Press
Red Clay Suite
In her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier…
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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh Press
Scars
Peter Meinke is one of the most readable poets. The surface clarity of his lines and his aptness for metaphor make these poems accessible and mysterious. They have real subjects…
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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh Press
School Figures
In choosing Cathy Song’s first book for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Richard Hugo said that her poems are “bouquets to those moments in life that seemed minor but…
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