Bøker utgitt av Carnegie-Mellon University Press

A collection of poetry by Michael McFee.

A collection of poetry by Joyce Peseroff.

A reissuing of The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir, a collection of poetry by Richard Hugo.

A reissuing of the debut collection of poems by the noted National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu.

A collection of poetic choral lyrics by Richard Katrovas.

A collection of new and selected poems by Paula Rankin.

A collection of poetry by Michael Dennis Browne.

A reissuing of Skylight, poetry by Carol Muske.

A collection of poetry by Arthur Smith.

A collection of poetry by Franz Wright.

A collection of poetry by Cornelius Eady.

A collection of poetry by Franz Wright.

A collection of essays, stories, and recipes by James M. Cain, edited by Roy Hoopes and Lynne Barrett.

Kingdom extends Joseph Millar's articulate devotion to the astonishments of daily life--their mingled beauty and pain. As in his first three books, Millar, like the late Philip Levine, has a keen eye for the hardscrabble details of working-class lives--from California's wheat fields to the Lehigh Valley to the rooftops of Paris and a host of other locales "down here on earth in the kingdom." Perhaps more fully than any recent book, this one calls to mind Dylan Thomas's assessment that the best poems "show us that we are alone and not alone in the unknown world, that our bliss and suffering are forever shared, and forever all our own." Kingdom shows Millar working at the height of his powers, sifting the "rag and bone shop of the heart" for songs and stories. It's his best book yet.

Windthrow: a forestry term for the uprooting or breaking of trees by wind. The voices of K. A. Hays' third volume of poetry speak out of nature's violent transformations. At turns self-effacing and empathic, fearful and accepting, these are poems of heat: the heat of new motherhood, of uncertainty, and of grief. Here, the things of a teeming world--" the truck stacked with cut trees," "the military jet, droning over," and "the beachgrass, blown / with dusty miller sprout"--are bound for renewal and ruin. In poems spare and strange, Hays looks outward to lay bare the complexities of our emotional lives.

New Poetry, October Reading Period Selection

"Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Alan Dugan described Skoyles's poems as "clear-eyed but passionate, sarcastic but grave, all at the same time." That description holds true for this selection of poems from his previous four books: A Little Faith; Permanent Change; Definition of the Soul, and The Situation. The title, taken from the Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, alludes to the temporal quality of existence, how one moves from sunlight to twilight in the course of a lifetime. And how those evening hours arrive suddenly, as if in no time at all."

The poems in Inside Job range from intensely autobiographical lyrics to brief historical portraits of literary figures like Grace Paley and Jorge Luis Borges, to obituaries of idiosyncratic characters such as heavyweight boxing contenders and inventors of candy bars. The tone is often wry, sometimes wistful, and always compassionate. Praise for John Skoyles: "For poems so full of linguistic playfulness, there is a surprising accuracy of perception." --The Georgia Review "Wise, benevolent, witty." --Northwest Review "Skoyles scrapes at the surface of everyday things and finds a wonderful strangeness just underneath." --Harvard Review