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When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds
A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.
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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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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Night Manual
Reflections on grief, family, and faith set against the seasonal changes and landscapes of Michigan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814346624
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814346631
Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
A collection of meditations and reflections on being.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814346457
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814346464
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Ragged Anthem
Searing new poems from a vital American voice.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814346532
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814346549
Blues Legacy
Blues Legacy is a collection of exquisitely crafted poems in which the blues and other forms of African American music serve as metaphors representing the spirit of determination and perseverance that characterizes African American culture.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780940713277
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Premonitions
An intimate look at a woman on the verge who is in tune with her body and nature.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344989
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814344996
Field Recordings
Poetry that uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of family, art, and masculinity.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814344965
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814344972
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The Lake Michigan Mermaid
A Tale in Poems
A modern-day fairy tale told in conversation between a young girl and the mermaid of Lake Michigan.
Printed Paper Cased
ISBN: 9780814342206
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342213