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  • av Ebony Isis Booth
    243,-

    Performance poet and activist Ebony Isis Booth sheds light on Black feminism, racism and inequality, social justice, and self-love in her debut collection of poems. She reveals the irony of a consumer culture that devours and disposes of Black bodies alongside the subsequent creation of social justice movements like Black Lives Matter.

  • - Remembering Paula Gunn Allen
     
    351,-

    This collection is a celebration of Paula Gunn Allen's life (1939-2008) as an indigenous scholar, writer, and woman. It features the creative writing, art, and memoir of Native American and other writers, scholars, and activists. It follows the 2010 West End Press edition of Paula Gunn Allen's final works, America the Beautiful: Last Poems, edited by Patricia Clark Smith.

  • av Harvey Wasserman
    131,-

    Outlines and sources point-by-point what happened in Ohio to what happened in 2004, to give George W Bush a second term. This is a source book for the theft of the 2004 presidential election and control of the 2008 presidential contest. Written by two reporters, this is a guidebook for electoral politics in the new millennium.

  • av Claribel Alegria
    243,-

    Claribel Alegria, born in Esteli, Nicaragua, in 1924, is one of the great voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry.

  • av Ellen McGrath Smith
    228,-

    With insight, humour, and uncompromising honesty, Nobody's Jackknife explores power and powerlessness, violence and tenderness, addiction and love. These poems refuse to separate the mundane from the profound: Rolling Rock beer, the racial coding of baseball players, and a melodic litany of yoga asanas intertwine in this brilliant and compelling collection.

  • av Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
    243,-

    In her third poetry collection Jeanetta Calhoun Mish sends war dispatches from home. She brings her unique perspective as a rural working-class Oklahoman, a domestic-abuse survivor, and a first-generation college student to writings that range from blank-verse ode to ghazel and flash memoir to narrative free verse.

  • av Nick DePascal
    214,-

    This debut poetry collection tackles issues as various as marriage, parenting, death, art, illness, the home, and the workplace, viewing the everyday through a magical and surreal lens. The poems coalesce naturally around cycles of the seasons and emotions.

  • av Charles Potts
    279,-

    For more than forty years, Charles Potts has remained true to his origins as a relentless and radical visionary. This selection of poetry, fiction, and memoir represents work he has published in hundreds of magazines and over twenty books. Edgy, irreverent, and innovative, lyrical and analytical at the same time, he is one of the age's true literary discoveries.

  • av Denise Bergman
    228,-

    Tactile, descriptive, and wise, these poems recover part of our past while delivering us to a still-uncertain present.

  • av Lenore Weiss
    228,-

    In Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island, award-winning poet Lenore Weiss embodies the themes of loss, transformation and re-invention that are integral to life and to her work. Poems celebrate the author's Jewish Hungarian upbringing. Survival, negotiation, and migration play a vital role in these poems about family and love.

  • av Hakim Bellamy
    228,-

    In his debut collection of hard-hitting poems, Albuquerque Poet Laureate Hakim Bellamy addresses the issues important to our day--politics, work, and art.

  • - Last Poems
    av Paula Gunn Allen
    228,-

    Contains poems that capture the variety, ingenuity, and complexity of Paula Gunn Allen, the beloved and influential Native American critic and poet.

  • - Collected Family Photographs and Poetry
    av Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
    214,-

    A work of poems and family memories of the author, an Oklahoma woman with a history of hard traveling and a feminist intellectual with a critical vocabulary. It tells the story of the daughter who left home, traveled the country, and returned to do her family proud.

  • av Marianne Aweagon Broyles
    184,-

    A collection of poems that acknowledges the historic oppression of Native Americans and other peoples, tracking the painful consequences. It also focuses on the resilience and surviving spirit of the people themselves, however wounded.

  • av Gerald McCarthy
    214,-

    Focuses on the themes closest to the author's heart and mind: working-class ethnicity, family life, war and recovery from war, prisons and the prisons we create within ourselves, personal loss, and our inability to heal from certain injuries. This work also includes a section featuring poems about Italy.

  • - A Retrospective of Poetry
    av Glenna Luschei
    228,-

    With forty years worth of poems from nineteen collections, this title contains the themes and treatments that have moved Glenna Luschei all her life: sympathetic understanding, wry judgment, the experience of sensation and of loss, the act of witness, the love of nature and its processes, and longing for peace and harmony.

  • av Erika T. Wurth
    199,-

    Discusses about small town Indians, about community and family, about thieves, prostitutes, train stealers, drug dealers, loners, jerks, dreaming alcoholics, and the ones who did everything but all of that.

  • av Michael Henson
    214,-

    Buddy Gray, a grassroots activist and co-founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless, was shot by a former client in Cincinnati. Both a memorial and a call to awareness, this work features poems that were written in response to the death of a friend.

  • - Stories of Providence
    av Robert Gish
    243,-

    These interlocking stories begin with foundation tales of the migration of JJ, his wife Naomi, and their son Otis from their chaotic family beginnings in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to their settlement in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1920s. Gish recalls a world where although the workings of Providence are hard to fathom and their outcome is often hard to bear.

  • - Grand Canyon Reflections
    av Margaret Randall
    214,-

    Margaret Randall describes her long love affair with the Grand Canyon as dating to the summer of 1947 when her father took her down its trails by mule. Since then, she has returned more than a hundred times. The poems that make up Into Another Time draw on these experiences as well as on additional research and countless conversations with other canyon lovers.

  • av Michele Gibbs
    252,-

    Whether mounting studio shows or producing public art, giving readings or featuring the work of other revolutionary artists in her magazine, Michele Gibbs reflects the spirit of the places she has lived and the people she has known. This book offers her complex and beautiful gift, a fusion of word, image, and spirit.

  • - Our Land - New and Selected Poems
    av Joseph Bruchac
    199,-

    Written over a period of twelve years and published in magazines and anthologies, these beautiful poems of place and Abenaki Indian heritage are addressed to the land, to the poet's two sons James and Jesse, to his wife Carol, and to himself. A few poems invoking the land join others of close observation of the natural world of native New England and the poet's meditations upon it.

  • av Michael Henson
    199,-

    Chronicles life on a wrecking crew in the Over-the-Rhine neighbourhood of Cincinnati - the battles men fight with society, each other, and their own minds.

  • av Robert Bohm
    266,-

    In a new, compelling poetry collection, What the Bird Tattoo Hides, Bohm arrives in rural India in 1968, "seeking truth's taste."

  • av Jessica Helen Lopez
    214,-

    "Every generation a few select voices seem to rise up and represent a revolution in the mechanics and mission of poetry. This collection is an exotic, aphrodisiacal perfume wafting through the senses, thickly spiced by the dual nature of a poet whose culture and experience effortlessly blend concrete imagery with a quiet, fierce longing for a world that may only exist within memory - or verse.” - Zachary Kluckman

  • av Robert Bohm
    214,-

    This collection is about war. It is also about falling apart when that is the only route left to sanity. It takes place during the 1960s and early 1970s, from New York's streets to Vietnam and India. Untouched by nostalgia or baby-boomer sentimentality, these poems offer a searing, visceral look at the narrator's attempts to find hints of coherence within a violent world.

  • - New Poems
    av Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
    228,-

    Walking Backwards is about making a home when you are a nomad. It is about travel and restlessness and how endlessly absorbing the idea of home can be when we keep losing sight of it.

  • - New Poems
    av Joseph Bruchac
    199,-

    These poems of close observation and passionate feeling deeply reflect Joseph Bruchac's Abenaki Indian heritage. Like Thoreau, he is a scrupulous student of nature. Uniquely, however, he brings his own cultural concerns to every observation -- not only about preservation of a vulnerable ecology, but about keeping cultural continuity and reaffirming tradition.

  • av Julia Stein
    169,-

    Here are poems of modern day survival, set in Los Angeles. The woman of the title (from a story by Mary Austin) provides an image for the poet of one who "came and went about our western world", establishing a saving relationship with the land.

  • av Julia Stein
    169,-

    These poems treat the condition of Jewish women in the Bible as a prelude to the trials, misfortunes, and victories of the twentieth century. The Biblical women treated in a modern idiom include Eve, Lilith, Sara, Hagar, Leah, Rachel, Shifra, Miriam, Delilah, Ruth, Tamar, Vashti. The link between the past and present is Shulamith, the "singer of all the songs," who comes at last to America. She helps us remember thd Jewish women who resisted extermination in the European ghettos and concentration camps, those who continued to struggle against prejudice and persecution in America, and the heroic trade union militants, especially those in the garment industry, who fought against sweatshops.

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