Carnegie Mellon University Press Backlist
The Carnegie Mellon University Press archives are organized by year. Each year includes poetry, classic contempory, special publications, and other titles. All titles are available through our distributor, University of Chicago Press, Chicago Distribution Center (CDC).
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2021 Titles
The One Certain Thing
Peter Cooley
9780887486661
Paper / $15.95
The Knives We Need
Nava EtShalom
9780887486678
Paper / $15.95
Oh You Robot Saints!
Rebecca Morgan Frank
9780887486685
Paper / $15.95
Glorious Veils of Diane
Rainie Oet
9780887486692
Paper / $15.95
Dark Harvest
Joseph Millar
9780887486722
Paper / $16.95
Yes and No
John Skoyles
9780887486739
Paper / $16.95
That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove
Author: Silvina López Medin
Translator: Jasmine V. Bailey
9780887486715
Paper / $15.95
Elegiac
Charles Seluzicki
9780887486708
Paper / $10.00
Witches Vanish
Claudia Barnett
9780887486654
Paper / $19.95
2020 Titles
Build Me a Boat: Words for Music 1968 - 2018
Michael Dennis Browne
9780887486586
Paper / $19.95
The Marksman
Jeff Friedman
9780887486593
Paper / $15.95
Disturbing the Light
Samuel Green
9780887486609
Paper / $15.95
Petition
Joyce Peseroff
9780887486616
Paper / $15.95
Sojourners of the In-Between
Gregory Djanikian
9780887486524
Paper / $15.95
Any God Will Do
Virginia Konchan
9780887486531
Paper / $15.95
My Second Work
Bridget Lowe
9780887486548
Paper / $15.95
Flourish
Dora Malech
9780887486555
Paper / $15.95
Take Nothing
Deborah Pope
9780887486562
Paper / $15.95
Silver and Information
Bruce Smith
9780887486456
Paper / $16.95
Fat: New and Uncollected Prose
W.S. Di Piero
9780887486623
Paper / $19.95
Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze
Juan Francisco De Dios
9780887486630
Paper / $22.95
2019 Titles
Brightword
Kimberly Burwick
9780887486517
Paper / $15.95
The Complaints
W. S. Di Piero
9780887486463
Paper / $15.95
Ordinary Chaos
Kimberly Kruge
9780887486470
Paper / $15.95
Blue Flame
Emily Pettit
9780887486487
Paper / $15.95
Afterswarm
Margot Schilpp
9780887486494
Paper / $15.95
Memoir
Honor Moore
9780887486449
Paper / $16.95
Saint Friend
Carl Adamshick
9780887486432
Paper / $16.95
Partners and Strangers
Michael Don
9780887486500
Paper / $19.95
2018 Titles
World Without Finishing
Peter Cooley
9780887486302
Paper / $15.95
The End of Spectacle
Virginia Konchan
9780887486319
Paper / $15.95
Big Windows
Lauren Moseley
9780887486326
Paper / $15.95
Immortal Village
Kathryn Rhett
9780887486333
Paper / $15.95
Last City
Brian Sneeden
9780887486340
Paper / $15.95
Black Sea
David Yezzi
9780887486357
Paper / $15.95
May Is an Island
Jonathan Johnson
9780887486371
Paper / $15.95
Bad Harvest
Dzvinia Orlowsky
9780887486388
Paper / $15.95
The Turning
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
9780887486395
Paper / $15.95
No Beautiful
Anne Marie Rooney
9780887486401
Paper / $15.95
The Imaginal Marriage
Eleanor Stanford
9780887486418
Paper / $15.95
My Riviera
Sharon Dilworth
9780887486296
Paper / $19.95
The Great Czech Navy
Richard Katrovas
9780887486425
Paper / $19.95
2017 Titles
Custody of the Eyes
Kimberly Burwick
9780887486173
Paper / $15.95
Dream of the Gone-From City
Barbara Edelman
9780887486180
Paper / $15.95
Windthrow
K.A. Hays
9780887486197
Paper / $15.95
We Were Once Here
Michael McFee
9780887486203
Paper / $15.95
Kingdom
Joseph Millar
9780887486210
Paper / $15.95
The Histories
Jason Whitmarsh
9780887486227
Paper / $15.95
Disappeared
Jasmine V. Bailey
9780887486234
Paper / $15.95
Sometimes We're All Living in a Foreign Country
Rebecca Morgan Frank
9780887486258
Paper / $15.95
Rowing with Wings
James Harms
9780887486265
Paper / $15.95
The Man Among the Seals and Inner Weather
Denis Johnson
9780887486272
Paper / $16.95
Challenges to the Dream: The Best of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Awards at Carnegie Mellon University
Jim Daniels
9780887486289
Paper / $19.95
Mickey Rourke and the Bluebird of Happiness
W. S. Di Piero
9780887486241
Paper / $15.95
2016 Titles
Poetry Series
Something Sinister
Hayan Charara
ISBN: 978-0-88748-605-0
$15.95, 72 pages
The Spokes of Venus
Rebecca Morgan Frank
ISBN: 978-0-88748-606-7
$15.95, 64 pages
Adult Swim
Heather Hartley
ISBN: 978-0-88748-607-4
$15.95, 80 pages
Swastika into Lotus
Richard Katrovas
ISBN: 978-0-88748-608-1
$15.95, 56 pages
The Nomenclature of Small Things
Lynn Pedersen
ISBN: 978-0-88748-609-8
$15.95, 80 pages
Hundred-Year Wave
Rachel Richardson
ISBN: 978-0-88748-610-4
$15.95, 80 pages
Where Are We in This Story?
Sarah Rosenblatt
ISBN: 978-0-88748-613-5
$15.95, 80 pages
Inside Job
John Skoyles
ISBN: 978-0-88748-614-2
$15.95, 72 pages
Suddenly, It’s Evening
Selected Poems
John Skoyles
ISBN: 978-0-88748-615-9
$16.95, 112 pages
Fiction
The Pittsburgh Stories of Willa Cather
Willa Cather; Peter Oresick, ed.; Peter Oresick, intro.
$19.95 Paperback, 978-0-88748-611-1
$25.95 Hardcover, 978-0-88748-616-6
208 pages
Classic Contemporary
Good Hope Road
Stuart Dischell
ISBN: 978-0-88748-612-8
$16.95, 96 pages
2015 Titles
Poetry Series
The Octopus Game
Nicki Beer
ISBN: 978-0-88748-593-0
$15.95, 80 pages
The Voices
Michael Dennis Browne
ISBN: 978-0-88748-594-7
$16.95, 112 pages
Domestic Garden
John Hoppenthaler
ISBN: 978-0-88748-595-4
$15.95, 80 pages
We Mammals in Hospitable Times
Jynne Dilling Martin
ISBN: 978-0-88748-596-1
$15.95, 56 pages
And His Orchestra
Benjamin Paloff
ISBN: 978-0-88748-599-2
$15.95, 80 pages
Know Thyself
Joyce Peseroff
ISBN: 978-0-88748-603-6
$15.95, 88 pages
cadabra
Dan Rosenberg
ISBN: 978-0-88748-597-8
$15.95, 72 pages
The Long Haul
Vern Rustala
ISBN: 978-0-88748-601-2
$15.95, 96 pages
Bartram's Garden
Eleanor Stanford
ISBN: 978-0-88748-598-5
$15.95, 88 pages
Drama
No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister
Claudia Barnett
ISBN: 978-0-88748-604-3
$16.95, 136 pages
2014 Titles
Poetry Series
Alexandria
Jasmine V. Bailey
ISBN: 978-0-88748-576-3
$15.95, 72 pages
Night Bus to the Afterlife
Peter Cooley
ISBN: 978-0-88748-577-0
$15.95, 72 pages
Dear Gravity
Gregory Djanikian
ISBN: 978-0-88748-578-7
$16.95, 104 pages
Pretenders
Jeff Friedman
ISBN: 978-0-88748-579-4
$16.95, 128 pages
How I Went Red
Maggie Glover
ISBN: 978-0-88748-578-7
$16.95, 104 pages
All That Might Be Done
Samuel Greene
$16.95 Paperback, 978-0-88748-581-7
$50.00 Hardcover, 978-0-88748-582-4
104 pages
The Wingless
Cecelia Llompart
ISBN: 978-0-88748-583-1
$15.95, 64 pages
Man
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
ISBN: 978-0-88748-584-8
$15.95, 96 pages
Anthology
12 Women: An Anthology of Poems
Gerald Costanzo
ISBN: 978-0-88748-592-3
$19.95, 160 pages
Poetry in Translation
The Hiss of the Viper
Mihaela Moscaliuc
ISBN: 978-0-88748-590-9
$16.95, 72 pages
Nonfiction
Souvenir
Kathryn Rhett
ISBN: 978-0-88748-589-3
$19.95, 176 pages
Fiction
The Collected Stories of Gladys Schmitt
Gladys Schmitt
$19.95 Paper, 978-0-88748-591-6
$28.95 Hardcover, 978-0-88748-602-9
296 pages
2013 Titles
Poetry Series
Oregon
Henry Carlile
ISBN: 978-0-88748-560-2
$15.95, 72 pages
Selvage
Donna Johnson
ISBN: 978-0-88748-562-2
$15.95, 96 pages
At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinksy
Bridget Lowe
ISBN: 978-0-88748-563-3
$15.95, 64 pages
Silvertone
Dzvinia Orlowsky
ISBN: 978-0-88748-564-0
$15.95, 80 pages
Fibonacci Batman: New & Selected Poems (1991-2011)
Maureen Seaton
ISBN: 978-0-88748-565-7
$19.95, 168 pages
When We Were Cherished
Eve Shelnutt
ISBN: 978-0-88748-566-4
$16.95, 104 pages
The Fortunate Era
Arthur Smith
ISBN: 978-0-88748-567-1
$15.95, 72 pages
Birds of the Air
David Yezzi
ISBN: 978-0-88748-571-8
$15.95, 88 pages
Classic Contemporary Poetry
Awake
Dorianne Laux
ISBN: 978-0-88748-573-2
$16.95, 72 pages
Overtime
Joseph Millar
ISBN: 978-0-88748-574-9
$16.95, 64 pages
The Finger Bone
Kevin Prufer
ISBN: 978-0-88748-570-1
$16.95, 88 pages
Body Moves
Tim Seibles
ISBN: 978-0-88748-559-6
$16.95, 64 pages
Poetry In Translation
Psalms of All My Days
Pratice de la Tour du Pin
translated from the French by Jennifer Grotz
ISBN: 978-0-88748-572-5
$18.95, 152 pages
Nonfiction
The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry
Wesley McNair
ISBN: 978-0-88748-557-2
$19.95, 192 pages
How to Design a World-Class Engineering College: A History of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Leah Pileggi
ISBN: 978-0-88748-575-6
96 pages
2012 Titles
Poetry Series
Now Make an Altar
Amy Beeder
ISBN: 978-0-88748-544-2
$15.95, 64 pages
Still Some Cake
James Cummins
ISBN: 978-0-88748-545-9
$16.95, 120 pages
Comet Scar
James Harms
ISBN: 978-0-88748-546-6
$15.95, 80 pages
Early Creatures, Native Gods
K. A. Hays
ISBN: 978-0-88748-547-3
$15.95, 72 pages
That Was Oasis
Michael McFee
ISBN: 978-0-88748-548-0
$15.95, 88 pages
Blue Rust
Joseph Millar
ISBN: 978-0-88748-549-7
$15.95, 88 pages
Spitshine
Anne Marie Rooney
ISBN: 978-0-88748-550-3
$15.95, 80 pages
Civil Twilight
Margot Schilpp
ISBN: 978-0-88748-551-0
$15.95, 104 pages
Drama
I Love You Terribly: Six Plays
Claudia Barnett
ISBN: 978-0-88748-554-1
$16.95
Nonfiction
The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry
Wesley McNair
ISBN: 978-0-88748-557-2
$19.95, 184 pages
2011 Titles
Poetry Series
Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry
Jim Daniels
ISBN: 978-0-88748-532-2
$15.95, 122 pages
Oz
Nancy Eimers
ISBN: 978-0-88748-532-9
$15.95, 88 pages
Working in Flour
Jeff Friedman
ISBN: 978-0-88748-533-6
$15.95, 88 pages
Scorpio Rising: Selected Poems
Richard Katrovas
ISBN: 978-0-88748-534-3
$19.95, 192 pages
The Politics
Benjamin Paloff
ISBN: 978-0-88748-535-0
$15.95, 80 pages
Copperhead
Rachel Richardson
ISBN: 978-0-88748-536-7
$15.95, 88 pages
Classic Contemporary Poetry
Falling Deeply Into America
Gregory Djanikian
ISBN: 978-0-88748-542-8
$16.95, 80 pages
Skating with Heather Grace
Thomas Lynch
ISBN: 978-0-88748-541-1
$16.95, 60 pages
Drama
The Inspector General
Michael Chemers
ISBN: 978-0-88748-539-8
$17.95
Fiction
Magpies
Lynne Barrett
ISBN: 978-0-88748-532-9
$17.95, 120 pages
Nonfiction
Bird in Flight: Memoir of a Survivor and Scholar
Edith Balas
ISBN: 978-0-88748-538-1
$16.95, 134 pages
Dear Gloria: Homesick for America in Wartime Japan
Toneko Kimura Hirai & Taro Kimura
edited by Gregg Ramshaw
ISBN: 978-0-88748-555-8
$27.95, 224 pages
Approaching Deliberative Democracy: Theory and Practice
Robert Cavalier
ISBN: 978-0-88748-537-4
$19.95, 272 pages
Preventing Electoral Violence in Africa
Jendayi E. Frazer & E. Gyimah-Boadi
ISBN: 978-0-88748-553-4
$16.95, 112 pages
2010 Titles
Poetry Series
The Diminishing House
Nicky Beer
ISBN: 978-0-88748-516-9
$15.95, 72 pages
A World Remembered
T. Alan Broughton
ISBN: 978-0-88748-517-6
$17.95, 128 pages
Say Sand
Daniel Coudriet
ISBN: 978-0-88748-518-3
$15.95, 88 pages
Knock Knock
Heather Hartley
ISBN: 978-0-88748-519-0
$15.95, 80 pages
In the Land We Imagined Ourselves
Jonathan Johnson
ISBN: 978-0-88748-496-4
$15.95, 88 pages
Greg Kuzma Selected Early Poems: 1958-1983
Greg Kuzma, edited with an introduction by Gerald Costanzo and Kevin A. González
ISBN: 978-0-88748-520-6
$17.95, 112 pages
The Other Life: Selected Poems of Herbert Scott 1974-2005
Herbert Scott
ISBN: 978-0-88748-521-3
$19.95, 240 pages
Admission
Jerry Williams
ISBN: 978-0-88748-522-0
$15.95, 80 pages
Classic Contemporary Poetry
Eve
Annie Finch
ISBN: 978-0-88748-524-4
$16.95, 72 pages
The Idiot Princess of the Last Dynasty
Peter Klappert
ISBN: 978-0-88748-525-1
$19.95, 224 pages
1-800-HOT-RIBS
Catherine Bowman
ISBN: 978-0-88748-526-8
$16.95, 64 pages
Fiction
Wouldn't You Like to Know
Pamela Painter
ISBN: 978-0-88748-527-5
$17.95, 104 pages
Nonfiction
Renewing Globalization and Economic Growth in a Post-Crisis World
Edited by Alexei Monsarrat and Kiron K. Skinner
ISBN: 978-0-88748-528-2
$24.95, 200 pages
No Cartoon Left Behind: The Best of Rob Rogers
Rob Rogers
ISBN: 978-0-88748-515-2
$39.95, 394 pages
Poetry in Translation
Birds for a Demolition
Manoel de Barros, translated from the Portuguese by Idra Novey
ISBN: 978-0-88748-523-7
$16.95, 96 pages