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.
Featured
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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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
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Welcome to Replica Dodge
A story about place, interfaith, and what it means to come home.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345573
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345580
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I Got to Keep Moving
African American characters navigate a physical and spiritual journey beginning in the antebellum South.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345931
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345948
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Elemental
A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction
New creative nonfiction by some of Michigan’s most well-known and highly acclaimed authors.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345672
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345689
Stiff
Surreal stories highlighting the struggle of carving out a home for one’s self.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345887
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345894
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Meet Behind Mars
Explores the bonds of family, neighbors, lovers, and friends as they are tested in new environments.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345122
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345139
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The Official Report on Human Activity
Jazz, opera, and various blues serve as the soundtrack for this collection of fairytales for grown-ups of all ages.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345207
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345214
Eco-dementia
Poems inspired by a love of the living world and the actions that destroy what sustains us.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343814
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343821
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Harborless
Poetry that recounts Great Lakes shipwrecks through imagination and history.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814342428
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342435
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The Bird-while
Short poems that look closely at small moments in a personal history, in art, and in the natural world.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814342404
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342411
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Bob Seger's House and Other Stories
New short fiction by some of Michigan’s well-known and highly acclaimed authors.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341940
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341957
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I Want to Be Once
Poems that take a poignant look at societal issues and contemporary American topics, such as working-class life and twenty-first century war.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814342022
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342039
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Sharp Blue Search of Flame
Stirring, atmospheric poems that journey through memories of growing up in India, and the myth, death, loss, and rebirth that surrounds that experience.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340493
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340509
ISBN: 0814340490
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Lying in the River's Dark Bed
The Confluence of the Deadman and the Mad Angler
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
ISBN: 9780814341988
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341995
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Know the Mother
Short, searing glimpses of how race and gender shadow even the most intimate moments of women’s lives.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341490
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341506
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Love, Sex, and 4-H
A unique take on the tumultuous 1960s from a young woman growing up in rural Michigan.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340783
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340790
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Garden for the Blind
Captivating linked stories that follow a group of characters from an upscale suburb of Detroit over several decades.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341049
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341056
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That That
Playful and profound short poems inspired by everyday insights and philosophical concerns.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340653
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340660
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Strings Attached
Poems that consider threads of emotional attachment and separation against a backdrop of art, food, and Lebanese culture.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340134
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340141