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Pitt Press Releases

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Date	Author/Book	Release
11/11/09	Bobby C. Rogers/Paper Anniversary	Tennessee Poet Wins 2009 Starrett Poetry Prize
10/25/09	Ostriker/The Book of Seventy	“Elderstile” poetry answers questions about the aging of the soul
10/18/09	Mackowski/View from a Temporary Window	Prize-winning author's second collection exhibits “exceptional poetic verve”
5/17/09	Bachmann/Temper	Author of prize-winning collection re-envisions the concept of ‘elegy’
5/03/09	Dumesnil/In Praise of Falling	Starrett winner embodies Zen spirit in her poems
4/26/09	Massey/Crystal and Arabesque	New book celebrates legacy of eclectic architect
4/27/09		500 Pitt Press Titles Available Again Online and In Print
1/25/09	Edson/See Jack	Celebrated prose poet adds new collection to his body of work
1/25/09	Sanow/Slow Stately Dance in Triple Time	2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize awarded to California native
11/25/08	Hamby/All-Night Lingo Tango	Florida poet’s fourth collection a ‘love letter to language’
11/25/08	Duhamel/Ka-Ching!	Poet zeroes in on our obsession with money
10/12/08	Dolin/Burn and Dodge	AWP poetry prize winner dodges burning contemporary issues
10/05/08	McGriff/Dismantling the Hills	New poetry collection spotlights blue collar life in rural America
8/24/08	Doubiago/Love on the Streets	Poet’s new collection is brilliant proof that ‘new poems just keep coming’
8/10/08	Wilson/Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man	Winning Cave Canem collection features poems that are riveting, tough and tender
8/10/08	Martinson/Fallingwater Cookbook	New Fallingwater cookbook serves up a great deal more than recipes
8/10/08	Brown/Domestic Interior	California poet explores the “secret places” of our lives in her second collection
8/10/08	Wallace/For a Limited Time Only	Wallace's eighth collection admittedly dark, yet hope and humor triumph
6/10/08	Aronson/Nickelodeon City	Pittsburgh played major role in the early days of the film industry
5/28/08	Sharon Crowley/Toward a Civil Discourse	ASU English professor earns four awards for one book
3/30/08	Beatty/Red Sugar	Poet’s third collection fearlessly explores how we perceive our physical selves
2/17/08	McDaniel/The Endarkenment	Poet’s fourth collection reveals a new world of contemporary poetry
2/17/08	Bergero/Intersecting Tango	The tango provides a window into Argentina’s struggle toward modernity
2/10/08	Prendergast/Buying into English	New book examines why English is such a prominent yet elusive language
1/27/08	Young/Primitive Mentor	Dean Young continues his “entertaining” ways in his ninth collection
1/27/08	Shumate/The Floating Bridge	New collection of prose poetry takes readers on enchanting journey
1/22/08	University of Pittsburgh Press Awarded Mellon Grant for Collaborative Publishing Initiative in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies
1/6/08	Varallo/Out Loud	Twenty-eighth Drue Heinz Literature Prize awarded to Pennsylvania native
11/18/07	Field/After the Fall	Prolific poet confronts a post-9/11 world
11/15/07	Sanger/Helen Clay Frick	Special events celebrate release of first major biography of Helen Clay Frick

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