The Pittsburgh Book Of Contemporary American Poetry

by Ed Ochester (Editor), Peter Oresick (Editor)

This anthology commemorates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Pitt Poetry Series(1968-1993), which from modest beginnings has become one of the most prominent poetry series in the United States. During this period, first under the editorship of Paul Zimmer, and then Ed Ochester, 156 books by 102 poets were published. This collection provides generous selections-about three hundred lines of verse-of the forty-five poets currently in print in the series, as well as full-page photographs.

Genres: Poetry

416 pages, Hardcover

First published March 28, 1993

About the author

Ed Ochester is the editor of the Pitt Poetry Series and is a member of the core faculty of the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars. He has published seven books of poems, as well as eight limited editions, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the George Garrett Award from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and the "artist of the year" award from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Poems of his were selected for Best American Poems 2007 and 2013.

Reviews

[P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the poems in this anthology, seeing as how, when the new pitt poetry series books would come into tech services for library processing, I and a coworker would compete to find the most ridiculous lines, and we never lacked for entries.

[SA · Rating 3 out of 5]

I came out of this with more poets I wanted to explore than I went in wanting to read, so yeah, go poetry anthology.