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  • High Water Mark

    Prose Poems

    by David Shumate ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Everyday mindreading, a house full of Buddhas, and the papaya scent of the soul. An interview with Custer at a place of his choosing, "probably a steakhouse." The ability of dogs to smell the uncool. Hitler's barber imagines what might have been if only he'd leaned his weight into the razor. An oblivious Coronado narrowly avoids an ambush on the American plains. Freud lecherously lifts the skirt ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Floating Bridge

    by David Shumate ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    The Floating Bridge, David Shumate’s second collection of prose poems, transports its readers over the chasm between the mundane and the enchanted. We traverse one bridge and find ourselves eavesdropping on Gertrude Stein and her gardener. We take the night bus to Gomorrah to have a look around. Halfway across, each bridge vanishes beneath our feet. Our world shifts. The commonplace begins to glow ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia

    by Todd Davis, Noah Davis, Carolyn Mahan, janan alexandra, David Baker, Susan Barba, Sarah Barber, Robin Becker0, Lisa Bellamy1, Dave Bonta2, Elizabeth Bradfield3, Joseph J. Capista4, Stacie Cassarino5, George David Clark6, Grant Clauser7, J.L. Conrad8, Geffrey Davis9, Alison Deming0, Chard deNiord1, Rebecca Foust2, Hannah Fries3, Michael Garrigan4, Adam Giannelli5, Margaret Gibson6, Charity Gingerich7, Andrew C. Gottlieb8, Willard P. Greenwood II9, Jeff Gundy0, K.A. Hays1, John Hodgen2, Henry Hughes3, M.J. Iuppa4, Julie Swarstad Johnson5, Kasey Jueds6, Julia Spicher Kasdorf7, Daniel Lassell8, Sydney Lea9, Diane LeBlanc0, Xiaoly Li1, Anni Liu2, Marjorie Maddox3, Kerrin McCadden4, Abby Minor5, Roger Mitchell6, Nik Moore7, Aimee Nezhukumatathil8, Leah Poole Osowski9, Sean Prentiss0, L. Renée1, Jack Ridl2, Christina Seymour3, Neil Shepard4, Julia Shipley5, Betsy Sholl6, David Shumate7, Matthew J. Spireng8, Eleanor Stanford9, Jordan Temchack0, Philip Terman1, Chase Twichell2, Lee Upton3, Judith Vollmer4, Ryan Walsh5, Henry Walters6, Jerry Wemple7, Karen J. Weyant8, Joe Wilkins9, Emily Beam0, Joe Beam1, Allyson Comstock2, Roberto D’Amanda3, Ashley Hamersma4, Gary Hawkins5, Talley V. Kayser6, Gwen Noll7, Ray Noll8, Henry Shearon9, Quinlin Taylor0, Sarah E. Allen1, Carl Engstrom2, Jerry D. Hassinger3, Andrew L. Shiels4, Hannah L. (Cave) Stout5, Sarah Blake6, Shara McCallum7 ...
    Series Book 59 - Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
    Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.A ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Kimonos in the Closet

    by David Shumate ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    "These are enormously arresting, odd, wryly humorous, gripping poems. And the variety of subject matter is astounding. I don't know when I've enjoyed reading a book so much."—David Budbill ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance

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  • The Cinnamon Peeler

    Selected Poems

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    Michael Ondaatje’s selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist. ... Read more

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  • Refusing Heaven

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    More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and ... Read more

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