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Anya Achtenberg |
| The Stone of Language |
| The poems in The Stone of Language explore personal events as well as events in our global consciousness, with the author’s fierce demand for social justice always prominent. New Pages calls the volume “above all . . . songs of the people’s struggle.” |
6 x 9 inches • 96 pages • ISBN 0-9753486-1-2 • $12.95
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Paula Gunn Allen |
| Life Is a Fatal Disease: Selected Poems 1962-1995 |
| This collection of 87 poems richly reflects the experience of its author, invoking myth and history, tragedy and comedy, narrative and lyric, nightmare and the clear light of day. The poems are arranged in an intuitive fashion reflecting Allen’s passion for storytelling. |
6 x 9 inches • 198 pages • ISBN 0-931122-85-6 • $16.95
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Paula Gunn Allen |
| Skins and Bones: Poems 1979-1987 |
| Arguably Allen’s best single poetry volume, this collection contains memorable evocations of such figures as La Malinche, Pocohontas, Sacagawea, and Molly Brant. Tongue-in-cheek and deadly serious, Allen redefines the Native tradition in her poetry. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 69 pages • ISBN 0-931122-50-3 • $8.95
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Sanora Babb |
| Told in the Seed |
| Sanora Babb, well-recognized author of a novel, a memoir, and several story collections, has written poetry all of her life. Her strong empathy with people and their daily lives and her ability to elevate the ordinary to the extraordinary is reflected in her poems, but they also quicken to her lyricism, clarity, and sense of immediacy. |
6 x 9 inches • 67 pages • ISBN 0-931122-90-2 • $8.95
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Denise Bergman, ed. |
| City River of Voices |
| The source and setting of these poems is the city, reflecting the diversity of the lives and interests of 50 poets from over a dozen ethnic backgrounds. The poets, mostly from Boston and Cambridge, include Robin Becker, Anna Carvalho, Susan Eisenberg, Martín Espada, Rosario Morales, and Mark Powlak. Denise Bergman conceived of this project; she is a poet living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
6 x 9 inches • 89 pages • ISBN 0-931122-68-6 • $9.95
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Arlene Biala |
| Continental Drift |
| Arlene Biala’s stark, tender, sensual and political poetry explores stories of the Pacific generations, particularly Filipinos, who have left their native lands to live in America. This collection goes beyond chronological storytelling into the dance of simultaneous experiences called forth by tragedy, family, and love. |
6 x 9 inches • 36 pages • ISBN 0-931122-95-3 • $7.95
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Joseph Bruchac |
| Ndakinna (Our Land): New and Selected Poems |
| These poems of Abenaki heritage invoke the natural world of New England and the poet’s meditations upon it. They also explore the creatures and events Bruchac encounters during his travels, and show that he is always home, always centered, no matter where he is. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 80 pages • ISBN 0-9705344-7-7 • $11.95
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Joseph Bruchac |
| Above the Line: New Poems |
| Joseph Bruchac is a disciplined writer, a serious student of nature, and a master of close observation. This collection explores many cultural concerns, especially the need to preserve a vulnerable ecology while affirming native traditions. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 72 pages • ISBN 0-9705344-8-5 • $11.95
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Olga Cabral |
| Voice/Over: Selected Poems |
| Olga Cabral is the author of seven volumes of poetry. Born in 1909 of Portuguese parents, she moved as a child to Winnepeg, Canada, and later to New York. “Since then,” she said, “I have lived through all the wars of this century, together with the rise of fascism, the Great Depression, the cynical witch hunts of McCarthyism, the atom bomb, the Cold War—I’ve seen it all.” |
6 x 9 inches • 122 pages • ISBN 0-931122-73-2 • $9.95
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Lisa D. Chavez |
| Destruction Bay |
| Lisa D. Chavez, of Mestiza background, wrote most of these poems in the voices of her neighbors and townspeople in Fairbanks, Alaska. They reflect life in a harsh landscape including its passion, violence, and inevitable losses. |
6 x 9 inches • 64 pages • ISBN 0-931122-92-9 • $8.95
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Michelle T. Clinton |
| Good Sense & the Faithless |
| This book, by leading Los Angeles poet Michelle T. Clinton, is a bold exploration of powerful themes: from everyday acts of love and hate in the ghetto to gestures of political and sexual survival in a postmodern no-woman’s land. |
6 x 9 inches • 94 pages • ISBN 0-931122-75-9 • $9.95
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Sharon Doubiago |
| Hard Country (second edition) |
| In this epic poem, Sharon Doubiago seeks to understand America in its dual relation as a haven of hope and a site of genocide. She transforms the poetic language of Whitman in a response to the male epic consciousness of twentieth-century American poetry. |
6 x 9¼ inches • 274 pages • ISBN 0-931122-94-5 • $19.95
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Jimmie Durham |
| Columbus Day |
| This subversive account of Columbus’s ill-omened voyage and its legacy by renowned Cherokee poet and painter Jimmie Durham has developed a lively underground reputation since it was published in 1983. From bitter to humorous, the poems in this collection are always honest. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 104 pages • ISBN 0-931122-30-9 • $8.95
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Susan Firer |
| The Underground Communion Rail |
| Susan Firer has read her poems in universities, prisons, and bars and on public radio and TV around her home state of Wisconsin. These poems chronicle her family’s life—its joys and tragedies—in an engaging and humanistic manner. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 58 pages • ISBN 0-931122-72-4 • $8.95
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Michele D. Gibbs |
| Line of Sight |
| Wherever she has lived, Michele Gibbs has never given up the struggle to make a better world. Line of Sight contains poetry and essays from previous works, new material, drawings, and sculpture by this champion of social change. |
6 x 9 inches • ISBN 0-9753486-0-4 • $16.95
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Robert F. Gish |
| West Bound: Stories of Providence |
| These interlocking stories cover the migration of J.J., his wife Naomi, and their son Otis from Tulsa to Albuquerque; second, Otis’ coming of age amid the shifting fortunes of his family and friends; and third, events occurring in other peoples’ lives at the same place and time. |
6 x 9 inches • 135 pages • ISBN 0-9753486-4-7 • $15.95
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Diane Glancy |
| Lone Dog’s Winter Count |
| Lone Dog’s Winter Count is a poetic accounting of Cherokee descendant Diane Glancy’s own life, based on the image of the pictographic calendar of the Dakota Nation. The volume was winner of the Minnesota Book Award in 1991. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 72 pages • ISBN 0-931122-64-3 • $9.95
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David Gullette, Ed. |
| Nicaraguan Peasant Poetry from Solentiname |
| “The workshop in Solentiname...demonstrates how quickly and fruitfully the children of nature can attain, however fleetingly and even in war, that state of grace we call poetry.”—Allen Josephs, N.Y. Times Book Review |
5½ x 8½ inches • 211 pages • ISBN 0-931122-48-1 • $12.95
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Stephen Haven |
| The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks |
| Stephen Haven’s first collection of poems is both an ethnographic tour of working-class life in America and a tribute to the many small moments that weave together to form our personal histories. |
6 x 9 inches • 80 pages • ISBN 0-9705344-9-3 • $11.95
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Lance Henson |
| Strong Heart Song: Lines from a Revolutionary Text |
| Stark, militant, and searching, bearing a fierce witness, these poems may be Lance Henson’s last word to America for the foreseeable future. Henson was raised as a Southern Cheyenne and is a Native American activist and currently teaches in Germany. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 72 pages • ISBN 0-931122-86-4 • $8.95
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Michael Henson |
| Crow Call |
| These poems were written in memory of Buddy Gray, grassroots activist and co-founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless, murdered a decade ago in Cincinnati. |
5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches • 88 pages • ISBN 0-9753486-6-3 • $12.95
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Michael Henson |
| Ransack |
| In this novel the author, borrowing from his years in the Appalachian and African-American neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine, describes life on a wrecking crew and the battles that men at the edge of reality fight with society, each other, and their own minds. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 92 pages • ISBN 0-931122-44-9 • $5.95
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Kent Johnson, tr. |
| A Nation of Poets: Writings from the Poetry Workshops of Nicaragua |
| Here from Nicaragua are the poems of the common people, written in poetry workshops created by the Sandinistas before the revolution. The book also contains an interview with Father Ernesto Cardenal, Minister of Culture of Nicaragua, and sponsor of the workshops. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 118 pages • ISBN 0-931122-40-6 • $5.95
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Meridel Le Sueur |
| The Girl (revised edition) |
| This best-selling novel by a radical woman author of the Depression 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 give birth to her daughter, the hope of a new generation. With a new introduction by Linda Ray Pratt. |
5 x 8 inches • 192 pages • ISBN 0-9753486-5-5 • $13.95
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Meridel Le Sueur |
| I Hear Men Talking (revised edition) |
| I Hear Men Talking depicts life in a rural Iowa town during the Depression. The town’s complacency in the face of the social and economic crisis of the Depression is destroyed during a revolt led by frustrated farmers. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 160 pages • ISBN 0-9705344-2-6 • $13.95
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Meridel Le Sueur |
| Harvest Song: Stories and Essays |
| This collection of short stories, essays and reportage allows the reader to fully appreciate Le Sueur’s shorter writings, beginning in 1926. Seven stories and memoirs written during the blacklist period between 1947 and 1958 are of particular importance. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 244 pages • ISBN 0-931122-60-0 • $12.95
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Meridel Le Sueur |
| The Dread Road |
| This multi-voiced account of a bus trip from Albuquerque to Denver, passing the site of the Ludlow Massacre, is also a journey through the purgatory of American consciousness. This novella is rich in allusions to writers including Whitman, Poe, and Lawrence. |
11 x 8½ inches • 65 pages • ISBN 0-931122-63-5 • $11.95
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Meridel Le Sueur |
| Women on the Breadlines |
| In these short journalistic pieces, Meridel Le Sueur recorded the struggle of poor women during the Depression in Minnesota. She acted not as a detached observer, but a co-participant in the women’s misery and a fighter for their survival. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 24 pages • ISBN 0-931122-34-1 • $3.00
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Russell Leong |
| The Country of Dreams and Dust |
| This collection is loosely structured around the Chinese and Asian immigrant experience. Russell Leong’s poems begin and end with water, from the Canton Delta to the drained pool of a Los Angeles tract house in Little Saigon. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 80 pages • ISBN 0-931122-76-7 • $8.95
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Shirley Geok-lin Lim |
| What the Fortune Teller Didn’t Say |
| Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry captures her enormous vitality and intelligence. In this volume, Lim confronts the trials of learning to live in a new country and explores the inner life and consciousness of a woman. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 82 pages • ISBN 0-931122-91-0 • $8.95
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Adrian C. Louis |
| Among the Dog Eaters |
| Adrian C. Louis, a member of the Paiute tribe, writes of his life among the Oglala Sioux with humor, insight, and anger at oppression. A former journalist, he has edited tribal newspapers and taught on and off the reservation. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 90 pages • ISBN 0-931122-69-4 • $9.95
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E. A. Mares |
| The Unicorn Poem and Flowers and Songs of Sorrow |
| E. A. Mares is one of the true poets of the Chicano renaissance. The Unicorn Poem has been hailed as a Chicano epic; the volume includes thirty poems. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 80 pages • ISBN 0-931122-65-1 • $8.95
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Thomas McGrath |
| Longshot O’Leary Counsels Direct Action |
| This volume, edited by Fred Whitehead, is a sampler of Thomas McGrath’s best short poems from the 1940s to the 1970s. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 32 pages • ISBN 0-931122-28-7 • $2.00
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The Mill Hunk Herald |
| Overtime: Punchin’ Out with The Mill Hunk Herald Magazine (1979-1989) |
| The Mill Hunk Herald was a newsletter, a journal of opinion, a magazine of the arts—an unsanctioned rebel institution in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the decade of the 1980s. These writings about the Homestead, Pennsylvania steel mill and its subsequent shutdown were lovingly culled from the remains. |
8½ x 11 inches • 208 pages • ISBN 0-931122-55-4 • $12.95
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Cherríe Moraga |
| The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea/Heart of the Earth: A Popul Vuh Story |
| These plays test the borders between tragedy and comedy to show how myth and cultural history have shaped the Chicano imagination. The Hungry Woman draws from the Greek Medea and the myth of La Llorona; Heart of the Earth is a feminist revisioning of the Mayan Popul Vuh story. |
6 x 9 inches • 165 pages • ISBN 0-9705344-0-X • $15.95
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Cherríe Moraga |
| Watsonville: Some Place Not Here/Circle in the Dirt: El Pueblo de East Palo Alto |
| These plays confront the changing California landscape of the 1990s, as anti-immigration, anti-youth, and English Only legislation impact the already impoverished farmworker towns and urban communities. |
6 x 9 inches • 165 pages • ISBN 0-9705344-5-0 • $15.95
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Cherríe Moraga |
| Heroes and Saints & Other Plays: Giving Up the Ghost, Shadow of a Man and Heroes and Saints |
| This collection of Moraga’s first three successful plays established her as a leading Chicana playwright. Ted Fishman of Chicago News and Arts Weekly called Shadow of a Man “the best kind of political work, performed with skill and sensitivity.” |
6 x 9 inches • 149 pages • ISBN 0-931122-74-0 • $15.95
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Duane Niatum |
| The Crooked Beak of Love |
| This sixth volume of Niatum’s poetry expresses thirty years of endeavor. Niatum was born in Seattle and influenced by the stories of his Klallam grandfather. He is internationally recognized as a poet and anthologist. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 70 pages • ISBN 0-931122-96-1 • $8.95
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nila northSun |
| A Snake in Her Mouth |
| nila northSun was born of Chippewa-Shoshone descent in Schurz, Nevada and currently lives on the Stillwater Indian Reservation in Fallon, Nevada. She has published two books of poetry and co-authored a tribal history for the Paiute-Shoshone tribe. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 80 pages • ISBN 0-931122-87-2 • $8.95
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Julie Parson-Nesbitt |
| Finders |
| In this collection, Julie Parson-Nesbitt navigates the street-wise world of the personal; comes to terms with love and interracial marriage; and undertakes a political response to her Jewish heritage. |
6 x 9 inches • 60 pages • ISBN 0-931122-83-X • $8.95
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Robert L. Perea |
| Stacey’s Story |
| Stacey’s Story concerns a child custody battle told from the mother’s boyfriend’s point of view. This novella by Mexican-American/Oglala Sioux writer Robert L. Perea won an award for first novel in 1992 from Returning the Gift, an annual Native American cultural festival. |
6 x 9 inches • 70 pages • ISBN 0-931122-80-5 • $8.95
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Charles Potts |
| The Portable Potts |
| For more than forty years, Charles Potts has remained true to his origins as a relentless and radical visionary. This generous selection of poetry, fiction, and memoir represents work he has published in innumerable magazines and more than 20 books. |
4½ x 7 inches • 384 pages • ISBN 0-9753486-3-9 • $19.95
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Naomi Quiñonez |
| The Smoking Mirror |
| This was our second volume of poetry by the Los Angeles-born Chicana author. Critic Francisco Lomeli says of her work, “As a warrior of language, she aims to rupture silence and fill it with a new vitality.” |
6 x 9 inches • 80 pages • ISBN 0-931122-89-9 • $8.95
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Margaret Randall |
| Dancing With the Doe: New and Selected Poems, 1986-91 |
| This collection by internationally celebrated poet Margaret Randall describes her battle with the Immigration Department, her awakening to the nightmare of childhood incest, her emergence as a lesbian, and her continuing support for socialism. |
6 x 9 inches • 104 pages • ISBN 0-931122-70-8 • $9.95
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Margaret Randall |
| Into Another Time: Grand Canyon Reflections |
| Internationally acclaimed socialist feminist writer Margaret Randall has centered her energy on bridging worlds and exploring women’s and cultural issues. In this volume, she uses her intimate knowledge of the Grand Canyon to reflect on geography, history, and human experience. |
6 x 9 inches • 96 pages • ISBN 0-9753486-2-0 • $12.95
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Levi Romero |
| In the Gathering of Silence |
| A native son of the Embudo Valley in northern New Mexico, Levi Romero expresses the heart of a stranger at the margins of a city—Albuquerque. His sturdy judgment, self-deprecating humor, and respect for his friends and culture give this volume fresh appeal. |
6 x 9 inches • 58 pages • ISBN 0-931122-84-8 • $7.95
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Wendy Rose |
| Halfbreed Chronicles |
| Rose’s reputation strongly rests on the poems and drawings in this early volume. Some frequently anthologized works included here are “Loo-Wit,” “Dancing for the Whiteman,” “Truganinny,” and “Julia.” |
5½ x 8½ inches • 71 pages • ISBN 0-931122-39-2 • $8.95
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Jim Sagel |
| Más Que No Love It |
| The author, who died tragically in 1988, captured the voice of his adopted family and neighbors in these bilingual stories. This collection rings with humor, insight, and wisdom, and reflects his precise ear for the Spanish of northern New Mexico. |
6 x 9 inches • 117 pages • ISBN 0-931122-62-7 • $9.95
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Jim Sagel |
| On The Make Again/Otra Vez En La Movida |
| This volume of Jim Sagel’s won the prestigious Casa de Las Americas prize for Chicano literature. In it, Sagel beautifully captures the voices of people living in Espanola and northern New Mexico. |
6 x 9 inches • 93 pages • ISBN 0-931122-54-6 • $8.95
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Patricia Clark Smith |
| Changing Your Story |
| Patricia Clark Smith, of Irish-Micmac-Canuk heritage, searches through her life history and infuses these poems with its richness. The poems reflect a number of themes, including raising two sons, her working class origins, and working in academia. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 61 pages • ISBN 0-931122-61-9 • $8.95
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Terry Song |
| This Is My Body |
| This is the first book of poems by poet and teacher Terry Song, who openly and candidly describes issues of rural life, sexuality, politics, and family. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 56 pages • ISBN 0-931122-77-5 • $7.95
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Julia Stein |
| Walker Woman |
| In this volume Julia Stein grapples with the themes of her life as a working-class teacher in Los Angeles as well as a variety of natural disasters. A concluding seven-part poem celebrates her rejuvenation through her contact with the land. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 61 pages • ISBN 0-9705344-4-2 • $9.95
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Julia Stein |
| Shulamith |
| Through the persona of Shulamith, “the singer of all the songs,” these poems treat the condition of Jewish women in the Bible as a prelude to the trials, misfortunes, and victories of their heroic counterparts in the twentieth century. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 60 pages • ISBN 0-9705344-3-4 • $9.95
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Luci Tapahonso |
| A Breeze Swept Through |
| This collection of Luci Tapahonso’s work is one in a series which expresses Diné (Navajo) life in its wholeness and sweetness. Tapahonso has become an important poetic voice for Native and other multicultural people throughout the Southwest. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 72 pages • ISBN 0-931122-45-7 • $7.95
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Laura Tohe |
| No Parole Today |
| Lyrical and angry, No Parole Today isa collection of Laura Tohe’s poetry and prose that records her experiences with boarding school life, as well as those of her mother and grandmother. It also explores the joys and tragedies of growing up on and off the Diné (Navajo) Reservation. |
6 x 9 inches • 47 pages • ISBN 0-931122-93-7 • $9.95
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Luis Alberto Urrea |
| The Fever of Being |
| The poems in The Fever of Being range in mood from comic to tragic, dealing with Luis Alberto Urrea’s life within the Hispanic and Anglo border cultures. This is the first published collection of poetry by this Chicano writer, editor and visual artist. |
6 x 9 inches • 82 pages • ISBN 0-931122-78-3 • $9.95
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Ken Waldman |
| To Live on this Earth |
| These poems reflect a variety of Waldman’s experiences, from his travels in Alaska in the 1990s to his reflection on September 11, 2001. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 90 pages • ISBN 0-9705344-6-9 • $11.95
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William Witherup |
| Down Wind, Down River: New and Selected Poems |
| This selection from six volumes of poetry and translation tells the story of a hard life full of passionate commitment. Witherup’s poems explore manual labor, nature, and the loss of love. |
6 x 9 inches • 175 pages • ISBN 0-931122-99-6 • $16.95
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Nellie Wong |
| The Death of Long Steam Lady |
| For 20 years Nellie Wong’s small collection of poetry and fiction has survived as an underground classic. Wong is still active as a university office worker, a union member, and a radical organizer in San Francisco. |
5½ x 8½ inches • 67 pages • ISBN 0-931122-42-2 • $5.95
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