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  | | American Poetry Now(1st Edition) Pitt Poetry Series Anthology by Ed Ochester, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Maggie Anderson, Dorothy Barresi, Quan Barry, Jan Beatty, Robin Becker, Richard Blanco, Christopher Bursk, Anthony Butts Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5964-9, ISBN: 0-8229-5964-X ""American Poetry Now" is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned "Pitt Poetry Series". Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Virgil Suarez, Afa ..." |
 | | Answer the Door by Christopher Bursk, Diane Kistner Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2020 by Futurecycle Press ISBN-13: 978-1-942371-89-2, ISBN: 1-942371-89-6 "“Choose one or the other, demands the light. / Choose both, says the dark.” ANSWER THE DOOR votes with the dark and its predilection for paradox and possibility. These poems invite readers into a world populated by imaginary friends, 1950s television icons, inmates at a county prison, lead pirates, plastic knights, a Sunday school class and Jesus’s secret lover, Quintilian and Oneal Moore, Salome and Deborah Kerr, Pixie the Dog and a ca ..." |
 | | Dear Terror by Christopher Bursk Published 2020 by Read Furiously ISBN-13: 978-1-73373-604-6, ISBN: 1-73373-604-2 "With a career already spanning decades, Christopher Bursk once again offers readers a glimpse into a life of moments captured in poems of comfort and of longing. This book is for those who search for moments alone, moments shared." |
 | | A Car Stops A Door Opens by Christopher Bursk Paperback, 132 Pages, Published 2017 by Cavankerry Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933880-60-0, ISBN: 1-933880-60-0 "The poetry of A Car Stops And A Door Opens gives us an insight into the anguish of longing, be it the longings of a troubled student or an elderly grandparent. It is poetry that is grounded in the particulars of both childhood and adulthood, and poetry for anyone who remembers what it’s like to be a kid and long for something you can’t put a name to. Not afraid to be naked and to laugh at this nakedness, it knows the sublime and the rid ..." |
 | | Unthrifty Loveliness by Christopher Bursk Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2014 by Word Poetry ISBN-13: 978-1-62549-117-6, ISBN: 1-62549-117-4 "Unthrifty Loveliness by Christopher Bursk spares no resources in its tender depictions of male psyche; with wit, humor, and sharp emotional turns, these poems evoke felt experience at a deep level." |
 | | The Boy with One Wing by Christopher Bursk Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-62229-259-2, ISBN: 1-62229-259-6 |
 | | The Infatuations and Infidelities of Pronouns (At Hand Poetry Chapbook) by Christopher Bursk Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2011 by Bright Hill Press ISBN-13: 978-1-892471-64-2, ISBN: 1-892471-64-7 "Poetry. THE INFATUATIONS AND INFIDELITIES OF PRONOUNS, a series of sonnets after Shakespeare, won Bright Hill Press's Poetry Chapbook competition. "Christopher Bursk is our supreme poet of adolescent angst. He is passionate, sincere, brave and, yes#8212;visionary. He knows that nowhere is the profane and the sacred more entwined than during adolescence, and comically so, humor being squeezed from anguished teenage pores. Of necessity, a ..." |
 | | The First Inhabitants of Arcadia(1st Edition) Poems by Christopher Bursk Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-813-4, ISBN: 1-55728-813-5 "Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Sarah Orne Jewett, Dusty Rhodes, and Hoyt Wilhelm skinny-dip and pick up gondoliers and cut figure eights into the ice in Christopher Bursk’s new collection. But the main cast of characters for these poems is the alphabet itself, “the first inhabitants of Arcadia, / now homesick, curious exiles from Eden.” Here are a boy’s first investigations into the nature of language as he studies the backs of baseba ..." |
 | | The Improbable Swervings of Atoms by Christopher Bursk Published 2005 ISBN-13: 978-1-322-09648-3, ISBN: 1-322-09648-1 |
 | | Pitt Poetry Ser. The Improbable Swervings of Atoms by Christopher Bursk Published 2005 ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-9074-1, ISBN: 0-8229-9074-1 |
 | | The Improbable Swervings of Atoms(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Christopher Bursk Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5889-5, ISBN: 0-8229-5889-9 "Winner of the 2004 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryThe Improbable Swervings of Atoms follows the comedic, often painful, physical and emotional travails of a young boy growing up in 1950s America. He watches the McCarthy hearings, conquers the Congo, assassinates the president, has his head stuffed into a toilet, drops his uniform on the fifty-yard line, and tries to make sense of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura. The poems engage history in a v ..." |
 | | Ovid at Fifteen(1st Edition) (Green Rose Series) by Christopher Bursk Paperback, 83 Pages, Published 2003 by New Issues Poetry & Prose ISBN-13: 978-1-930974-25-8, ISBN: 1-930974-25-6 "Winner of the Green Rose Prize (2002)Christopher Bursk’s latest collection is not just profoundly honest; it is profoundly brave. These astonishing poems explore the space between sensuality, sexuality, and love—a landscape in which flawed human beings give birth to the flawed human beings who will one day take care of them, each generation screwing up even as it adds to the universal fund of beauty and compassion. Above all, Ovid at Fi ..." |
 | | Hands Offering Bread An Anthology by Earl Mohn, Judith Croxford, Stand Heim, Daniel Lusk, Christopher Bursk, W. D. Ehrhart, Julie Cooper Paperback, 109 Pages, Published 2002 by Bucks County Community College ISBN-13: 978-0-9720320-0-1, ISBN: 0-9720320-0-2 |
 | | Working the Stacks by Christopher Bursk Paperback, 27 Pages, Published 2002 by The Bacchae Press ISBN-13: 978-1-890767-04-4, ISBN: 1-890767-04-2 |
 | | Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Books Series Vol. XXXVI by Christopher Bursk, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Suzanne K. Powell, Warren Carrier, Stathis Gourgouris, Joseph Powell Paperback, Published 1997 by Quarterly Review Of Literature ISBN-13: 978-1-888545-03-6, ISBN: 1-888545-03-8 "The five full length collections included here are works by Yannis Patilis, Camel of Darkness: Selected Poems (1970-1990), translated from the Greek by Stathis Gourgouris; Warren Carrier, An Ordinary Man; Christopher Bursk, The One True ..." |
 | | Cell Count by Christopher Bursk Published 1997 ISBN-13: 978-0-585-37805-3, ISBN: 0-585-37805-3 |
 | | Cell Count(1st Edition) (Ttup Invited Poets Series) by Christopher Bursk, Robert A. Fink Hardcover, 90 Pages, Published 1997 by Texas Tech University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-385-6, ISBN: 0-89672-385-2 "In 1996, 1.2 million citizens were incarcerated in U.S. prisons for violent crimes and other felonies. By the year 2000, that number is expected to exceed 2 million. In response to this crisis, throughout the nation, programs built largely on the work of volunteers have risen to challenge traditional concepts about the prison system and rehabilitation, and to engender a new awareness of possibilities. Cell Count, an eloquent and sensiti ..." |
 | | Quarterly Review of Literature (Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Book Series) by Yannis Patilis, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Joseph Powell, Christopher Bursk, Warren Carrier, T. Weiss Hardcover, Published 1997 by Quarterly Review Of Literature ISBN-13: 978-1-888545-02-9, ISBN: 1-888545-02-X "Poetry series T. Weiss, Warren Carrier, Fadhil al-Azzawi, Yannis Patilis, Christopher Bursk, Joseph Powell ... XXVI: James Bertolino's third volume, "First Credo"; "The Diver"; by Warren Carrier; Frederick Feirstein's explorations of rowdy origins in "Family History"; vivid first books by Julia Mishkin ("Cruel Duet") and Joseph Powell ("Counting the Change") and Bulgarian Nicolai Kantchev tr. by Kessler and ..." |
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