Poetry
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The Second Stop Is Jupiter
An interpellation of a surrealist African American poetic mythology.
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eBOOK
What to Count
A lyrical detour into the personal and political conflicts and identities that frame a life.
Paperback
eBOOK
The Orchestra of Wind Chimes
Thought-provoking poems that challenge preconceptions of form and style while focusing on themes of everyday experience, class, politics, literature, and more.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814350386
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814350393
House and Home
A collection of poems that intensely explore the beauty and wisdom to be found in what we commonly call "everyday" encounters, relationships, occurrences, and spaces.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780940713307
stilettos in a rifle range
Poems about the joys and struggles of complex, contemporary life—and heartbreak.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814350188
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814350195
Psych Murders
Experimental writing that takes you inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of care.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814349878
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814349885
Far Company
Poems that underscore how we commune with those long loved and long gone.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814349526
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814349533

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When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds
A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348505
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348512

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Gun/Shy
Poems that seek stability in family and community while coping with a country full of conflict and change.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348789
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348796
When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double
Poems about being a survivor and the choices we make to protect ourselves, our homes, and our hearts.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348321
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348338
Body Not My Own
A collection of tightly crafted poems of intense imagery, sharp cadence, and poignant emotional resonance, representing the African American experience of enslavement in the United States.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780940713291
A Fine Canopy
A collection that focuses on the natural world, these are poems of wilderness and of wildness.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348062
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348079
You Are My Joy and Pain
Love Poems
A collection of lyrical love poems showing Detroit’s poet laureate at the peak of her career.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814348017
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348024

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What the Chickadee Knows
Modern poems conceived first in Anishinaabemowin and then in English.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347508
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347515

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Words like Thunder
New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers
Contemporary Native American poetry and prose that celebrate the successes, while acknowledging ongoing challenges.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347485
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347492

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Gut Botany
Poetry that inhabits and queers bodies and lands in an ecosomatic investigation.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347638
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347645
am-phib-ian
Exploring the will to survive the existential disorientation and emotional loss resulting from fractured relationships with lovers and kin.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780940713284
The Shape of Regret
An authentic voice that is reflective of the author’s sincere appreciation for poetry.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347249
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347256

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come see about me, marvin
An imagined personal exchange with Marvin Gaye, in verse, on life in Michigan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347225
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347232

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Teacher/Pizza Guy
Explores the emotional and physical labor necessary to work nights as a pizza delivery driver and days as a high school English teacher.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347157
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347164