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Teacher/Pizza Guy

Poems by Jeff Kass

Explores the emotional and physical labor necessary to work nights as a pizza delivery driver and days as a high school English teacher.

Paperback
Published: August 2019
ISBN: 9780814347157
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: August 2019
ISBN: 9780814347164
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Night Manual

Poems by David Hornibrook

Reflections on grief, family, and faith set against the seasonal changes and landscapes of Michigan.

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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814346624
$17.99
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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814346631

Saint Peter and the Goldfinch

Poems by Jack Ridl

A collection of meditations and reflections on being.

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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346457
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814346464
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Ragged Anthem

Poems by Chris Dombrowski

Searing new poems from a vital American voice.

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Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814346532
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2019
ISBN: 9780814346549

Blues Legacy

Jacquese Armstrong

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.

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Published: February 2019
ISBN: 9780940713277
$20.00
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Premonitions

Poems by Elizabeth Schmuhl

An intimate look at a woman on the verge who is in tune with her body and nature.

Paperback
Published: September 2018
ISBN: 9780814344989
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2018
ISBN: 9780814344996

Field Recordings

Russell Brakefield

Poetry that uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of family, art, and masculinity.

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Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9780814344965
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9780814344972
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The Lake Michigan Mermaid

A Tale in Poems

Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomen
Illustrated by Meridith Ridl

A modern-day fairy tale told in conversation between a young girl and the mermaid of Lake Michigan.

Hardcover
Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9780814342206
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9780814342213

Broad Sympathies in a Narrow World

The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois

Dr. Sandra Staton-Taiwo

A colllection of poetic reflections on the public and private life of an American intellectual giant.

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780940713260
$20.00

The Forgetting Tree

A Rememory

Rae Paris

A personal narrative of past and present racial violence and resistance to terror in the United States.

Paperback
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814344262
$18.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814344279

Eco-dementia

Poems by Janet Kauffman

Poems inspired by a love of the living world and the actions that destroy what sustains us.

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Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814343814
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814343821
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Somewhere We'll Leave the World

Poems by Russell Thorburn

Poems suggesting that living on Earth takes a lot of practice.

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Published: September 2017
ISBN: 9780814342541
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2017
ISBN: 9780814342534
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Harborless

Poems by Cindy Hunter Morgan

Poetry that recounts Great Lakes shipwrecks through imagination and history.

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Published: March 2017
ISBN: 9780814342428
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2017
ISBN: 9780814342435
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Rowing Inland

Poems by Jim Daniels

Charts the emotional, political, and economic landscapes of the working-class Metro Detroit community and its residents.

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Published: February 2017
ISBN: 9780814342183
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2017
ISBN: 9780814342190
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The Bird-while

Poems by Keith Taylor
With illustrations by Tom Pohrt

Short poems that look closely at small moments in a personal history, in art, and in the natural world.

Paperback
Published: February 2017
ISBN: 9780814342404
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2017
ISBN: 9780814342411

Hölderlin

The Poetics of Being

Adrian Del Caro

Here is a comprehensive introduction for the English reader to the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin.

Hardcover
Published: January 2017
ISBN: 9780814323212
$59.99
eBOOK
Published: January 2017
ISBN: 9780814344637
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I Want to Be Once

Poems by M. L. Liebler

Poems that take a poignant look at societal issues and contemporary American topics, such as working-class life and twenty-first century war.

Paperback
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814342022
$17.99
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Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814342039
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Sharp Blue Search of Flame

Poems by Zilka Joseph

Stirring, atmospheric poems that journey through memories of growing up in India, and the myth, death, loss, and rebirth that surrounds that experience.

Paperback
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814340493
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814340509
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 0814340490
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Lying in the River's Dark Bed

The Confluence of the Deadman and the Mad Angler

Poems by Michael Delp

A rollicking meeting of two wildly different yet incredibly similar personas . . . the Deadman in the shape and form of a trickster and the voice of an apprentice river shaman, the Mad Angler.

Paperback
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814341988
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814341995

Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores

Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant

Translated by Adriana X. Jacobs and Yosefa Raz
Edited by Shachar Pinsker

Presents the work of two American­-born women who wrote and published a substantial body of Hebrew poetry between the 1930s and 1960s.

Paperback
Published: January 2016
ISBN: 9780814341360
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: January 2016
ISBN: 9780814341377

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