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Breaking the Glass
LouAnn Shepard Muhm
Poetry
ISBN 9780926147263
$11.95
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Breaking the Glass is a book of fierce heart and strong hands, glinting recognition, and hard-won perceptions. Its many brief, bright-shard poems, especially, cut through surface consciousness, bringing the reader to unexpected and moving comprehension. Vulnerable with longing, fully alive, LouAnn Muhm's words ring resonantly true.
-Jane Hirshfield
Breaking the Glass is LouAnn Muhm's first full-length book. Her chapbook, 'Dear Immovable' was published in 2006.
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Blueberry Rapids
Rene Andre Meshake
Children's
ISBN 9780926147256
$13.95
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Blueberry Rapids is the story of Giniw, an eight year old Ojibwe orphan, who loves to draw. Encouraged by his grandmother, he makes a Kikiweon (banner) which tells the story of Giniw's unusual experience at Blueberry Rapids. The Kikiweon proclaims him as a Picture-Keeper of the Anishinaabeg. The book is illustrated with twelve beautiful paintings by the author.
Blueberry Rapids is Andre Meshake's first children's book. He is a visual artist, writer, storyteller and singer-songwriter who lives in Guelph, Ontario and is one of the poets included in, Traces in Blood, Bone, & Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry published by Loonfeather Press.
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Traces in Blood, Bone, & Stone
Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry
Kimberly Blaeser, Editor
Poetry
ISBN 092614717X
$19.95
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It might be said that western awareness of American Indian poetry began with the Ojibwe. When Henry Rowe Schoolcraft . . . published translations of Chippewa songs and stories in 1839, it woke the world to the existence of sophisticated literary and philosophical awareness among the “savages” of North America. It could be seen as the start of scholarly respect for what is now called Native American Literature. . .
With that background, the number, the strength, and the variety of the Objiwe voices in this superb anthology should be a surprise to no one and a delight to every reader of poetry. I cannot think of any collection of American Indian poems including those that represent many tribal nations that gives a better picture of what it means to be an Indian today, of the many ways in which Native writers continue to bring the past into the present, celebrate the future, not just survive, but thrive as a vital part of world literature.
-Joe Bruchac, Abenaki writer and storyteller, author of Our Stories Remember
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The Rural Schools of Beltrami County
Louis Marchand
History
ISBN 0926147234
$28.00
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People and places, teachers and students, facts and humor tell the story of the rural schools of Beltrami County, from the beginnings in settler’s cabins in the 1890s to the final consolidation in 1970. Over the past century Beltrami County had 125 rural schools, more than in any of the state’s other 86 counties. This book, illustrated with many photos, is a unique history of one Minnesota county's rural schools, township by township.
Marchand is also the author of "Up North" a survey of Beltrami County townships.
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The Rhubarb King
Sharon Chmielarz
Poetry
ISBN 9780926147226
$11.95
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In these poems, the richly knotted stories of family far away and long ago emerge abruptly in the present, in textured detail, and in a lyric telling that will not settle easily into praise or sorrow. These poems are spoken in a language deft with courage and skill that makes me want to start again--as a reader of this book, as a writer of my own, as a citizen of the country Chmielarz makes whole."
-Kim Stafford, author of "The Muses Among Us:
Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft"
Sharon Chmielarz has three additional books of poetry, Different Arrangements, But I Won't Go Out In A Boat, and The Other Mozart.
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