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Poetry. Poet and fiddler Ken Waldman has lived in Alaska fourteen years, reading and performing at hundreds of venues. After publishing over two dozen chapbooks, this prolific performer has at last introduced his first full volume of poetry: NOME POEMS. These poems describe his residence in Nome, its frontier citizens, his role as a musician, schoolteacher, and poet, and the crises that nearly cost him his life. Rural Alaska writing/ is spirit...

Fiction. These interlocking stories cover the migration of JJ, his wife Naomi, and their son Otis from their family beginnings in Tulsa to their settlement in Albuquerque, Otis' coming of age amid the shifting fortunes of his family and friends, and events in other peoples' lives at the same place and time. Gish creates a world where the workings of Providence are hard to fathom and their outcome often hard to bear, though we must accept them ...

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.

Drama. HEROES AND SAINTS AND OTHER PLAYS is Chicana playwright Cherrie Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are "Shadow of a Man, " winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award, "Heroes and Saints, " winner of the Drama-logue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the Will Glickman Prize for Best Play of 1992, and "Giving Up the Ghost, " first published by West End Press in 1986, and now presented here in...

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.

For one year after its arrival in the United States the dismantled Statue of Liberty sat in 214 unopened crates on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor. Bergman's masterful narrative, told in lyric pieces, of the transportation, installation, and metaphorical presence of the Statue of Liberty serves not only as a paean to the work of her transporters but a meditation on her arrival in a land whose history she can hardly hope to accommodate.

This provocative debut from National Poetry Slam Champion Carlos Contreras is a conversation in two parts: a monologue-style musing on working in a correction facility told from an insider/outsider perspective, and an homage to veterans of other kinds of war who must learn to live inside and outside their own prisons of mind and body.

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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.

This is the number one source book for the theft of the 2004 presidential election and control of the 2008 presidential contest, compiled by the reporters Rev. Jesse Jackson calls "the Woodward & Bernstein of the 2004 election." This blunt, hard-hitting digest outlines and sources point-by-point what happened in Ohio to in 2004 to give George W. Bush a second term. Written by the two reporters who made this a global story, there is no more ess...

Bryce Milligan's Take to the Highway is a book of big heart, big mind, and a big eight-cylinder engine, bringing poems—especially the stretched out prose poems—of distinction and evocative power.”—Jane Hirshfield, author of The Beauty and Ten Windows

Both a memorial and a call to awareness, these poems were written in response to the death of a friend. Buddy Gray, a grassroots activist and co-founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless, was shot by a former client a decade ago in Cincinnati. Many questions remain about the killing of this man that sparked a funeral march of over two thousand mourners through the streets of the city. Some of the poems deal directly with Gray and his ...

In southwestern Oklahoma an intricate sense of community exists in the small neighborhoods of Comanche Tribal Housing like Madischie. From its streets comes a hell-bent young crew of Comanche, Arapahoe, and Kiowa toughs led by a young Comanche named Velroy. This title tells their story in a narrative poetry.

The prodigal daughter writes of her travels and return and shares unique photos of her kin.

Poet Jason Yurcic explores his journey to survival through his love of life and writing.

The Girl" explores the fate of a farm girl who moves to the "dark city" of St. Paul, Minnesota, where she struggles to survive the death of her lover, killed in a bank robbery, and to give birth to her daughter, her hope for a new generation.

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.

Teresa Anderson died January 9, 2006, after waging a decade-long battle against cancer. After her cancer diagnosis in 1995, Terri's subject matter expanded from the land and people she loved to include her own fight with the disease. Written in the hospital, this work presents her poems that took on a new dignity and clarity as a result.

Closing the Hotel Kitchen is about war. It is also about falling apart when that is the only road left to sanity. Set in the 1960s and early 1970s in New York City, Vietnam, and India.

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.