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AWARDWINNER
Practicing to Walk Like a Heron
Poems that delight in discovering the comic, sorrowful, empathic, and spiritual in what is often overlooked.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334539
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335390
To Embroider the Ground with Prayer
A beautiful meditation on grief, memory, and the seasons of life.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814336205
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336212
allegiance
A sharp, haunting, and lyrical collection that attempts to understand what we owe the spaces we inhabit.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814336182
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336199
Booker T & Them
A Blues
A poetic reimagining of the life of Booker T. Washington that explores issues of being an African American male of note at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814337165
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337172
The Light Between
Poems of stylistic and emotional range that journey widely through love’s losses and connections.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814336144
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336151
The Dropped Hand
The Dropped Hand is an attempt to create poetry that lives in the face of loss.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780979750946
Three Birds Deep
This is lyric poetry using words and phrases in a very creative and original way.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780979750953
At the Bureau of Divine Music
A thoughtful and elegant collection from accomplished poet Michael Heffernan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814335109
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814336335
Jonestown
A Vexation
Winner of the 2011 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780979750939
Solitude of Five Black Moons
Collection of poems by Aurora Harris giving voices to those who are marginalized or oppressed.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780940713215
AWARDWINNER
Birth of a Notion; Or, The Half Ain't Never Been Told
A Narrative Account with Entertaining Passages of the State of Minstrelsy and of America & the True Relation Thereof
A critical look at black identity in American history and popular culture as told from a performative African American perspective.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334089
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335277
Chronicles of the Pig & Other Delusions
A highly original collection of poetry from Edward Bruce Bynum.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780979750922
Roses and Revolutions
The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall
Collects significant poetry, short stories, and essays by celebrated African American poet and publisher Dudley Randall.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814334454
The Golden Underground
New from accomplished poet Anthony Butts, a collection of modern free verse with an attention to formal syntax and a keen religious sensibility.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333891
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335468
If the World Becomes So Bright
A lyrical and accessible collection that explores both the landscape of Michigan and the inner life of one person who lives there.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333914
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335260
AWARDWINNER
By Cold Water
A beautiful and meditative collection of poetry rooted in a wonder and deep knowledge of the natural world.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814334225
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335345
Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream
A new collection from Detroit poet M. L. Liebler, a unique voice in contemporary poetry.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333822
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335253
After-Music
A new collection by esteemed Michigan poet Conrad Hilberry, his sixth full-length book of poetry.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333525
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335222
AWARDWINNER
In Line for the Exterminator
Poems
A collection by one of America’s foremost poets of city life and work, In Line for the Exterminator brings Jim Daniels back to his native Detroit.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333815
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335482
AWARDWINNER
Land of Stone
Breaking Silence Through Poetry
The engaging autobiographical account of a poet-in-residence at a psychiatric hospital who helps a silent young man regain his speaking voice through writing poetry.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814333150
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335604