Made in Michigan Writers Series
Series Editors: M. L. Liebler, Wayne State University; Michael Delp, Interlochen Center for the Arts
The Made in Michigan Writers Series is devoted to highlighting the works of distinguished statewide writers to showcase Michigan's diverse voices. The series publishes poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and essays by Michigan writers with the aim of encouraging the recognition of the state's artistic and cultural heritage throughout Michigan, the Midwest, and the nation.
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these are love(d) letters
Ames Hawkins’s These are Love(d) Letters is a genre-bending visual memoir and work of literary nonfiction that explores the questions: What inspires a person to write a love letter? What inspires a person to save a love letter even when the love has shifted or left? And what does it mean when a person uses someone else’s love letters as a place from which to create their own sense of self?
"Ames Hawkins renders the inheritance of a parent’s love letters into a queer palimpsest of legacy, knowledge, and experience. Letters as collections. Letters as raw theory. Letters as family tracings. Letters as identity archive. This book is essay art at its most exquisite, a brilliant new standard for artifact-based nonfiction." – Carolyn Kuebler, editor of the New England Review
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Mortality, with Friends
A collection of intensely personal lyrical essays about mortality, living well, art, and love.
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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.
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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.
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ISBN: 9780814348321
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ISBN: 9780814348338
How Other People Make Love
Love stories wherein people ask themselves: what is love?
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ISBN: 9780814348369
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ISBN: 9780814348376
A Fine Canopy
A collection that focuses on the natural world, these are poems of wilderness and of wildness.
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ISBN: 9780814348062
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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.
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ISBN: 9780814348017
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ISBN: 9780814348024
AWARDWINNER
You're in the Wrong Place
A lyrical deconstruction of postindustrial American life.
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ISBN: 9780814348086
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ISBN: 9780814348093
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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.
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ISBN: 9780814347485
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ISBN: 9780814347492
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I Have the Answer
Short stories that manage to feel both fantastical and disturbingly familiar.
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ISBN: 9780814347522
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ISBN: 9780814347539
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Grief's Country
A Memoir in Pieces
An intimate look at widowhood.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814347393
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814347409
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Gut Botany
Poetry that inhabits and queers bodies and lands in an ecosomatic investigation.
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ISBN: 9780814347638
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ISBN: 9780814347645
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These are Love(d) Letters
Intimate and unwavering exploration of love, loss, and the queer possibilities inherent in artistic aspiration.
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ISBN: 9780814347263
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ISBN: 9780814347270
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come see about me, marvin
An imagined personal exchange with Marvin Gaye, in verse, on life in Michigan.
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ISBN: 9780814347225
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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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Black Indian
A moving memoir exploring one family’s legacy of African Americans with American Indian roots.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345801
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345818
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Shades
Detroit Love Stories
Interconnected stories exploring life, love, and passion in an ever-changing community.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814346884
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814346891
The Desk on the Sea
Meditations on life and death from the shores of Lake Superior to the North Sea.
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ISBN: 9780814346655
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814346662
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Unblinking
An unflinching look at race, class, life after death, disability, and family.
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ISBN: 9780814346716
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ISBN: 9780814346723
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Night Manual
Reflections on grief, family, and faith set against the seasonal changes and landscapes of Michigan.
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ISBN: 9780814346624
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ISBN: 9780814346631