The Pittsburgh That Stays Within You - Softcover

Samuel Hazo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1633852199 ISBN 13: 9781633852198

Publisher: Word Association Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

Bronze Winner for Essay/Creative Non-Fiction at the 2018 National Independent Publisher Book Awards

It has been called Pittsburgh's memoir this book of essays that reveals the soul of the city and the sensibilities of its author. Samuel Hazo's work in this new edition is accompanied by the exquisite photographs of sixteen-year-old, Paige Crawley.

It began as an essay for Carnegie Magazine in the mid-1980s and expanded into a book first published in 1986. The Pittsburgh That Stays Within You took on a life of its own. Now in its 5th edition, updated and expanded by the author, it continues to touch us. As one reader put it, I just finished reading your book, and what you did was write the story of my life.

A city dweller named Aristotle remarked that a story should have a beginning, middle and an end. My memoir of Pittsburgh lacks a beginning and an end, but it assuredly has a middle. Commencing, as Aristotle would have approved, in the midst of things, it manages to stay right there. Since its unity is the unity of a single point of view entwined with anecdotes gathered haphazardly by the simple principle of addition it is what it is a memoir that attempts to suggest that Pittsburgh did not arrive at its present status like Venus on the half shell, but that its present grew out of its past. That past exists in our collective memory if it exists at all. One of Aristotle s successors noted in passing that the past is all we have. He was only half right. We have the present that the past made possible. This memoir is one man s view of that possibility. Samuel Hazo

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About the Author:

The author of books of poetry, fiction, essays and plays, Samuel Hazo is the founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University, where he taught for forty-three years. From 1950 until 1957 he served in the United States Marine Corps, enlisting as a private and completing his tour as a captain. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame, a Master of Arts degree from Duquesne University and his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. Some of his previous works are And the Time is, Like a Man Gone Mad, They Rule the World and Sexes: The Marriage Dialogues (Poetry), This Part of the World (Fiction), Mano a Mano, Watching Fire, Watching Rain and Tell It to the Marines (Drama), The Stroke of a Pen and Outspokenly Yours, (Essays). His translations include Denis de Rougemont's The Growl of Deeper Waters, Nadia Tueni's Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love and Adonis The Pages of Day and Night. In 2003 a selective collection of his poems, Just Once, received the Maurice English Poetry Award. He has been awarded twelve honorary doctorates. He was honored with the Griffin Award for Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame, his alma mater, and was chosen to receive his tenth honorary doctorate from the university in 2008. A National Book Award finalist, he was named Pennsylvania s first State Poet by Governor Robert Casey in l993, and he served until 2003. He is currently Poet-in-Residence at La Roche College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Word Association Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1633852199
• ISBN 13: 9781633852198
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 210