Beardslee, Lois
Summary: 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 like climate change and socioeconomic equality with a grace and readability that empowers readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BEAGilmore, Brian G.
Summary: "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 moved to the Midwest for professional ambitions. In trying to acclimate himself to a new job in a new place--a place that seemed so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GILHilberry, Conrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 HILMorgan, Cindy Hunter
Summary: Harborless, a collection of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks, is part history and part reinvention. The poems explore tragic wrecks in rivers and lakes, finding and forming artistic meaning from destruction and death. Each poem begins in a real, historical moment that Cindy Hunter Morgan transforms into an imagined truth. The imaginative element is essential to this work as it provides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MOROomen, Anne-Marie
Summary: "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 revolution of the time. Between sewing her first dish towel and finishing the yellow dress she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OOMEN, ANNE-MARIE OOMTaylor, Keith
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 TAYSummary: "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 rich history of writing and storytelling in the region. As series editors Michael Delp and M. L....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The essays approach Michigan at the atomic level. This is a place where weather patterns and ecology matter. Farmers, miners, shippers, and loggers have built (or lost) their livelihood on Michigan's nature-what could and could not be made out of our elements. From freshwater lakes that have shaped the ground beneath our feet to the industrial ebb and flow of iron ore and wind power-ours is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.6 OomSummary: A collection of poems and short stories from the following Michigan authors : Marty Achatz, Ellen Airgood, Robert Alexander, Julie Brooks Barbour, Sally Brunk, Jennifer Burd, Lisa Fay Coutley, Sharon Dilworth, Amber Edmondson, Chad Farries, Matthew Gavin Frank, Manda Frederick, Randall R. Freisinger, Eric Gadzinski, Steve Hamilton, Sue Harrison, Joseph Daniel Haske, Barbara Henning, Jennifer A....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word WayCooper, Desiree
Summary: "In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. ... With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Cooper's stories provide truths without sermon and invite empathy without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cooper 2016Dombrowski, Chris
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 DOMHarris, Bill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 HARMarkus, Peter
Summary: "These poems remind us of the importance of both relationships and of place are even more important with that in the background"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MARMozina, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOZContents: Preface: Grim reader -- Ghost anecdote / Laura Kasischke -- Not even lions and tigers / Steve Amick -- Thin air / Elizabeth Kostova -- Backseat driver / James Hynes -- Pier Road / Nicholas Delbanco -- Bones on Bois Blanc / Laura Hulthen Thomas -- Bitchathane / Anne-Marie Oomen -- Estate sale / Kelly Fordon -- Making bakes / Lolita Hernandez -- The devil in Cross Village / Eileen Pollack -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.0873 GHODaniels, Jim
Summary: "Rowing Inland, Jim Daniel's fifteenth book of poetry, is a time machine that takes the reader back to the Metro Detroit of his youth and then accelerates toward the future. With humor and empathy, the author looks at his own family's challenges and those of the surrounding community where the legacy handed down from generation to generation is one of survival. Although the book focuses on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 DANDelp, Michael.
Contents: Commandos -- Traveling Einstein -- The trees growing up around us -- We are living in the future -- Therapy -- Perfect bass -- Mystery park -- As if we were prey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELFrancis, Vievee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 FRAGriffin, Gail B.
Summary: "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 than with the lived phenomenon of grief itself-what it does to the mind, heart, and body; how it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRIFFIN, GAIL B. GRIHernandez, Lolita
Summary: Drawing on memories of growing up in Detroit with Caribbean roots, Hernandez reveals a hidden community that craves sun and saltwater, dances to calypso, and makes callaloo, bakes, buljol, sanchocho, and pelau in their kitchens. Making Callaloo in Detroit explores questions of how we assimilate and retain identity, how families evolve as generations pass, how memory guides the present, and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERJackson, Fleda Brown
Summary: "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 trees, the end of marriages, and among other things, the loss of hearing and of life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Madgett, Naomi Cornelia Long
Summary: "You Are My Joy and Pain is Naomi Long Madgett's latest and possibly most endearing poetry collection. Bill Harris, a 2011 Kresge Foundation Eminent Artist, said of the book, "Even with the evidence of over a half-century or more of first-rate poetic artistry by Madgett, this collection is a breath-arresting surprise and delight. Poem-by-poem and section-by-section amaze. Each poem in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MADRidl, Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 RIDBlackhawk, Terry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2012