The selections in this anthology represent the full range and vitality of contemporary American poetry—from minimalism to epic, from free verse to traditional form, from plain conversation to richly embroidered tapestry, form passionate political utterance to intense personal drama, from light verse to tough lyricism. Since 1950 university presses have published more than 900 volumes of original poetry , opening the canon to a wide range of rich and exciting voices. Nearly 200 of the those volumes are represented here.
Vital Signs features poems by such well established poets as John Ashbery, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and James Wright. Because the presses have also played a role in discovering and promoting the work of new poets, the reader will find here poems by many younger writers as well.

Vital Signs

Literature & Fiction

WALLACE, Ronald

Poetry

University of Wisconsin Press

Vital Signs: Contemporary American Poetry from the University Presses

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Henry James and the comic form

University of Michigan Press

Gospel of John: Chapters 1-11

Scottish Academic Press

Presents a collection of the author's most recent poems

Time's Fancy (Pitt Poetry Series)

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

A collection of 100 sonnets which combine traditional form with free verse. The subject matter ranges widely from Rootie Kazootle and Froggy the Gremlin to Shakespeare and Nietzsche. The traditional themes of lyrics such as love and death are explored, as well as quirky contemporary narratives.

The Uses of Adversity (Pitt Poetry Series)

Music, the past, childhood, death, parenthood, marriage, and nature form the main themes of this collection of poems

Tunes for Bears to Dance to

Poems deal with mushrooms, woodcocks, love, passion, spring, grouse, bats, fences, night, language, school, poetry, parents, worries, and aging

People and Dog in the Sun

Winner of the 1995 Banta Book Prize for a Wisconsin Author
 Ronald Wallace is best known for his wit and good humor, his synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, his sensory immediacy, his accessibility, and charm. Now in Time's Fancy, his fifth collection, Wallace explores the tragic aspects of life more fully, fashioning a declarative poetry that is darker and deeper, more meditative and complex.

University of Pittsburgh Press

The Uses of Adversity― titled after the line from As You Like It, “Sweet are the uses of adversity” - is a collection of one hundred sonnets cobining the craftiness of traditional form with the effortlessness of free verse.  The language is often richly textured and musical, often plain spoken and conversational, but always witty and accessible.  The subject matter ranges widely from Rootie Kazootie and Froggy the Gremlin, Howdy Doody and Elvis Presley, to Christopher Columbus, Khrushchev, Kennedy, and Kevorkian; from Donald Duck, Mandrake the Magician, Li’l Abner and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, to Shakespeare, H.P. Lovecraft, Transtromer, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Nietzsche; from the tradtional themes of lyrics - love (both sacred and profane), death, the changing of the seasons, marriage, birth, divorce, childhood, sex, religion,art, the natural world, illness - to the most unexpected and quirky contemporary narratives. The title sequence, which explores a father’s illness and death, is both elegiac and celebratory, evoking the conflictual bonds in any father-son relationship.  In these sonnets, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Wallace once again proves himself to be one of our most versatile and affirmative poets.

Uses Of Adversity (Pitt Poetry Series)

History & Criticism

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Vital Signs

Vital Signs: Contemporary American Poetry from the University Presses

Henry James and the comic form

Gospel of John: Chapters 1-11

Time's Fancy (Pitt Poetry Series)

The Uses of Adversity (Pitt Poetry Series)

Tunes for Bears to Dance to

People and Dog in the Sun

Time's Fancy (Pitt Poetry Series)

Uses Of Adversity (Pitt Poetry Series)