Made in Michigan Writers Series – serie
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Practicing to Walk Like a Heron
Poems
Av Jack Ridl
Häftad, 2013
285 kr
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In Practicing to Walk Like a Heron multiple-award-winning Michigan poet Jack Ridl shares lines of well-earned wisdom in the face of a constantly changing world. The familiar comforts of life-a warm fire in winter, a lush garden in summer-become the settings for transcendent and universal truths in …
Until the Full Moon Has Its Say
Häftad, 2014
250 kr
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The poems in Until the Full Moon Has Its Say were inspired by the loss of poet Conrad Hilberry’s wife of fifty-six years, Marion. While the poems in this volume delve into the initial emptiness and hopelessness of grieving, the poet’s connections to the natural world, music and other people …
Weweni
Häftad, 2015
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252 kr
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Depending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word ""weweni"" expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity. In addition, the word for ""relatives"" is ""nindenwemaaganag"": those whose ""enewewe,"" or voices, sound familiar. In Weweni, poet Margaret Noodin brings all of these meanings to bear in …
Love, Sex, and 4-H
Häftad, 2015
261 kr
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As the 1960s dawned in small-town Michigan, Anne-Marie Oomen was a naive farm girl whose mother was determined to keep her out of trouble-by keeping her in 4-H. In Love, Sex, and 4-H, Oomen sets the wholesomeness of her domestic lessons in 4-H club from 1959 to 1969 against the political and sexual …
To Light a Fire
20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project
Av Terry Blackhawk, Peter Markus
Häftad, 2015
296 kr
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The InsideOut Literary Arts Project (iO) began in 1995 in five Detroit high schools, with weekly classroom visits by a writer-in-residence, the publication of a literary journal for each school, and the mission of encouraging students to use poetry to “think broadly, create bravely, and share their …
Bob Seger's House and Other Stories
Häftad, 2016
438 kr
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Bob Seger's House and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by some of Michigan's most well-known fiction writers. This collection of twenty-two short stories serves as a celebration not only of the tenth anniversary of the Made in Michigan Writers Series in 2016 but also of the …
Harborless
Häftad, 2017
252 kr
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Poetry that recounts Great Lakes shipwrecks through imagination and history.
Somewhere We'll Leave the World
Häftad, 2017
339 kr
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The poems in Russell Thorburn’s Somewhere We’ll Leave the World are fluid and masterful with a flow that captures an authentic consciousness. These poems breathe and allow the reader breathing room. Powerful images and deft endings arrive like the best kind of emotional left hook—the kind that …
Eco-Dementia
Häftad, 2017
339 kr
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Poems inspired by a love of the living world and the actions that destroy what sustains us.Janet Kauffman describes ""eco-dementia"" as a paradoxical condition of humanity—a love of the living world while simultaneously causing and suffering from its destruction. Like other dementias, losses are …
Forgetting Tree
A Rememory
Av Rae Paris
Häftad, 2017
218 kr
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A personal narrative of past and present racial violence and resistance to terror in the United States.Rae Paris began writing The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory in 2010, while traveling the United States, visiting sites of racial trauma, horror, and defiance. The desire to do this work came from …
Field Recordings
Häftad, 2018
339 kr
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Poetry that uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of family, art, and masculinity.Firmly rooted in the dramatic landscapes and histories of Michigan, Field Recordings uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of personal origin, family, art, and masculinity. The …
Elemental
A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction
Av Anne-Marie, Oomen, Anne-Marie Oomen
Häftad, 2018
317 kr
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New creative nonfiction by some of Michigan’s most well-known and highly acclaimed authors.Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction comes to us from twenty-three of Michigan’s most well-known essayists. A celebration of the elements, this collection is both the storm and the shelter. …
Black Indian
Häftad, 2019
319 kr
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Black Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walker's The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony-only, this isn't fiction. Beautifully rendered and rippling with family dysfunction, secrets, deaths, drunks, and old resentments, Shonda Buchanan's memoir is an …
Night Manual
Häftad, 2019
250 kr
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Night Manual is a survival guide for life-all the messy, wonderful, grieving, and self-doubting parts of life. David Hornibrook's debut poetry collection is a book of hours that keeps time through anguish and explores the ineffable borderland of existence. These are poems that seek to get at what …
Desk on the Sea
Häftad, 2019
261 kr
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The Desk on the Sea begins four years after American poet Jonathan Johnson spread his mother's ashes in her beloved Lake Superior and moved with his wife and young daughter into a seventeenth-century cottage on Scotland's North Sea. On an idyllic, desolate coast and in the wild Highlands, Johnson …
Come See About Me, Marvin
Häftad, 2019
250 kr
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come see about me, marvin is accessible, honest poetry about and for real people. In the collection, brian g. gilmore seeks to invite the reader into a fantastical dialogue between himself and Marvin Gaye-two black men who were born in the nation's capital, but who moved to the Midwest for …
These Are Love(d) Letters
Av Ames Hawkins
Häftad, 2019
410 kr
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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 …
Grief's Country
A Memoir in Pieces
Av Gail Griffin
Häftad, 2021
231 kr
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Gail Griffin had only been married for four months when her husband's body was found in the Manistee River, just a few yards from their cabin door. The terrain of memoir is full of stories of grief, though Grief's Country: A Memoir in Pieces is less concerned with the biography of a love affair …
Words Like Thunder
New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers
Häftad, 2020
252 kr
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Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers is a collection of poetry by award-winning Ojibwe author Lois Beardslee. Much of the book centers around Native people of the Great Lakes but has a universal relevance to modern indigenous people worldwide. Beardslee tackles contemporary topics …
I Have the Answer
Av Kelly Fordon
Häftad, 2020
285 kr
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If you thought the suburbs were boring, think again. Kelly Fordon's I Have the Answer artfully mixes the fabulist with the workaday and illuminates relationships and characters with crisp, elegant prose and dark wit. The stories in Fordon's latest collection are disquieting, humorous, and …
Fine Canopy
Av Alison Swan
Häftad, 2020
252 kr
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Alison Swan's collection of poems, A Fine Canopy, illustrates how the natural world envelops and encloses us with so many beautiful things: crowns of leaves, the ubiquitous blue sky, our luminous moon, and snow. So much snow. An ecopoet whose writing shows her advocacy for natural resources, in …
You're in the Wrong Place
Häftad, 2020
252 kr
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In a thrilling interconnected narrative, You're in the Wrong Place presents characters reaching for transcendence from a place they cannot escape. Charles Baxter stated that "Joseph Harris has a particular feeling for the Detroit suburbs and the slightly stunted lives of the young people …
How Other People Make Love
Häftad, 2021
285 kr
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In How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen chronicles the lives and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution of marriage. Not best-served by established conventions and conventional mores, these people-young, old, gay, straight, midwestern, coastal-are finding their own paths …
Divining, a Memoir in Trees
Häftad, 2023
261 kr
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In sixteen essays, each named after a species of tree, Maureen Dunphy explores the nature of human-arboreal relationships, and how each of these trees has—literally—served as a friend, a confidante, or a place to rest. The depth and diversity of these relationships are revealed through essays that …
When Our Fathers Return to Us As Birds
Av Peter Markus
Häftad, 2021
252 kr
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Over the course of two decades and six books, Peter Markus has been making fiction out of a lexicon shaped by the words brother and fish and mud. In an essay on Markus's work, Brian Evenson writes, ""If it's not clear by now, Markus's use of English is quite unique. It is instead a sort of ritual …
Mortality, with Friends
Av Fleda Brown
Häftad, 2021
263 kr
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Mortality, With Friends is a collection of lyrical essays from Fleda Brown, a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes her husband, who lives with the nagging uneasiness that her cancer could return. Memoir in feel, the book muses on the nature of art, of sculpture, of the loss of bees and …
Gun/Shy
Av Jim Daniels
Häftad, 2021
252 kr
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The poems in Gun/Shy deal with the emotional weight of making do. Tinged with both the regrets and wisdom of aging, Jim Daniels's poems measure the wages of love in a changing world with its vanishing currency. He explores the effects of family work-putting children to bed, leading parents to their …
Psych Murders
Häftad, 2022
231 kr
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Stephanie Heit's hybrid memoir poem blasts the page electric and documents her experience of shock treatment. Using a powerful mélange of experimental forms, she traces her queer mad bodymind through breathlessness, damage, refusal, and memory loss as it shifts in and out of locked psychiatric …
Stilettos in a Rifle Range
Häftad, 2022
236 kr
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Written against a backdrop of heartbreak and loneliness and spanning the geography of Cincinnati, Detroit, and New York, this is a complex, intriguing book of poetry that plays dynamically with language as each new reading brings forth something unseen from the previous reading. Highlighting the …
Enough to Lose
Av RS Deeren
Häftad, 2023
250 kr
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In nine captivating short stories, RS Deeren presents a vivid portrait of life in rural Michigan. Small family farms are dwarfed by looming wind turbines and are transformed into corporate enterprises; polarizing local and national politics turn neighbor against neighbor and raze long-standing …
