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This first collection, in prose memoir and poetry, of the work of a Navajo poet and teacher describes attending a government school for Indian children and the challenge it presented to her socially, culturally, and expressively. Laura Tohe says this of her experience: "I was born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, and raised on the Diné (Navajo) Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico. I grew up speaking Diné as my primary language. For a while we lived near Coyote Canyon with my grandparents while my parents operated the Tohe Coal Mine, a family business. After the mine closed, my mother moved us to Crystal, New Mexico, where she worked at the boarding school. I grew up without television in the beautiful Chuska Mountains, where only a dirt road connected us to the rest of the world."While growing up I heard stories all around me. As we drove down the dusty reservation road, my mother told many Diné stories. I liked to listen to her and Grandma gossip. Sometimes she would catch me eavesdropping and make me leave. My first publication originates from a story given to my mother by her great-grandmother."

Written over the last decade, these poems include memories of the author's early childhood in Malaysia, immigration to America, and travel throughout the world, and affirmations of motherhood and maturity in the New World.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

"Shirley Lims poems sing with the defiance of Blake and Yeats, clapping hands `for every tatter in our mortal dress.' The song is fierce, the vision incisively clear-eyed - supremely mature, an unsentimental perception of humanity and nature. The Irreversible Sun's song soars even in direst loss." - Anca Vlasopolos, author of Cartographies of Scale (and Wing)

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.

Phillips's debut full-length collection, the book is a love letter to the desert and an indictment of human folly. Phillips's poetry is universal and historical: he addresses culture, the environment, and our borderlands history.

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.

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

In his twelfth poetry collection, Adrian Louis slays Indian Country's centuries-old demons and confronts his own grief upon losing his wife to Alzheimers, revealing a writer at his peak and a poet unafraid to take chances. There is no room for misinterpretation; his diction is as clear-cut as a logged forest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Recounts the true story of what happened when award-winning poet Lisa Gill threatened to hold up the MRI clinic in 2003. Using poetry, prose, and art, this memoir takes a powerful look at both personal and institutionalized violence and explores how a hard-won medical diagnosis left the author searching to understand the history of violence in her life and the consequences for her health.

"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

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.

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.

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.