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Fair Creatures of an Hour
Lynn Levin
Poetry
ISBN 9780926147287
$12.95
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“Writing with wit, elegance, and occasional bursts of high-velocity
surrealism, Lynn Levin brings poetry to bear on the realities of acontemporary world grown increasingly unreal. The gem of this finecollection is “Little Red Telegram,” about the legendary race horseSmarty Jones, a longish poem that, like the other superb work here,makes a strong case for the unfashionable notion that smart poetry canalso be wonderfully entertaining. Five stars for Fair Creatures of an Hour.”
Lynn Levin's other books include A Few Questions About Paradise and Imaginarium.
She is also the translator for The Forest: Poems by Besnik Mustafaj.
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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 a 2009 Midwest Independent Publishers' Association book award finalist in poetry.
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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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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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County Lines
League of Minnesota Poets
Poetry
ISBN 9780926147270
$13.95
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County Lines showcases the versatility,depth and breadth of Minnesota poetry. Representing all 87 counties in the state, County Lines stakes out new poetic territory and commemorates the 150th Anniversary of Minnesota's statehood. Readers are likely to discover people and places they know within these pages. County Lines is edited by David Bengtson, Charmaine Pappas Donovan, Angela Foster and John Calvin Rezmerski.
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