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Multicutural Literature

Native American
	Life Is a Fatal Disease: Selected Poems 1962-1995
	Paula Gunn Allen
	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
	Skins and Bones: Poems 1979-1987
	Paula Gunn Allen
	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
	Ndakinna (Our Land): New and Selected Poems
	Joseph Bruchac
	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
	Above the Line: New Poems
	Joseph Bruchac
	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 Back to Top
	Good Sense & the Faithless
	Michelle T. Clinton
	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
	Columbus Day
	Jimmie Durham
	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 Back to Top
	Strong Heart Song: Lines from a Revolutionary Text
	Lance Henson
	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
	Lone Dog’s Winter Count
	Diane Glancy
	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 Back to Top
	Among the Dog Eaters
	Adrian C. Louis
	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
	The Crooked Beak of Love
	Duane Niatum
	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 Back to Top
	A Snake in Her Mouth
	nila northSun
	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
	Stacey’s Story
	Robert L. Perea
	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 Back to Top
	Halfbreed Chronicles
	Wendy Rose
	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
	Changing Your Story
	Patricia Clark Smith
	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 Back to Top
	A Breeze Swept Through
	Luci Tapahonso
	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
	No Parole Today
	Laura Tohe
	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 Back to Top

Chicano / Hispanic
	Destruction Bay
	Lisa D. Chavez
	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
	A Nation of Poets: Writings from the Poetry Workshops of Nicaragua
	Translated by Kent Johnson
	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 Back to Top
	The Unicorn Poem and Flowers and Songs of Sorrow
	E. A. Mares
	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
	The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea/Heart of the Earth: A Popul Vuh Story
	Cherríe Moraga
	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 Back to Top
	Watsonville: Some Place Not Here/Circle in the Dirt: El Pueblo de East Palo Alto
	Cherríe Moraga
	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
	Heroes and Saints & Other Plays: Giving Up the Ghost, Shadow of a Man and Heroes and Saints
	Cherríe Moraga
	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 Back to Top
	The Smoking Mirror
	Naomi Quiñonez
	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
	In the Gathering of Silence
	Levi Romero
	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 Back to Top
	Más Que No Love It
	Jim Sagel
	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
	On The Make Again/Otra Vez En La Movida
	Jim Sagel
	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 Back to Top
	The Fever of Being
	Luis Alberto Urrea
	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

Asian American
	Continental Drift
	Arlene Biala
	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 Back to Top
	The Country of Dreams and Dust
	Russell Leong
	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
	What the Fortune Teller Didn’t Say
	Shirley Geok-lin Lim
	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 Back to Top
	The Death of Long Steam Lady
	Nellie Wong
	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

African American
	Good Sense & the Faithless
	Michelle T. Clinton
	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 Back to Top
	Line of Sight
	Michele D. Gibbs
	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

Ethnic Writers
	Voice/Over: Selected Poems
	Olga Cabral
	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 Back to Top
	City River of Voices
	Edited by Denise Bergman
	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
	Finders
	Julie Parson-Nesbitt
	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 Back to Top
	Walker Woman
	Julia Stein
	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
	Shulamith
	Julia Stein
	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 Back to Top