Poetry
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The Stone of Language |
| Anya Achtenberg |
| 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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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
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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
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Told in the Seed |
| Sanora Babb |
| 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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hard Country (second edition) |
| Sharon Doubiago |
| 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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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
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The Underground Communion Rail |
| Susan Firer |
| 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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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
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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
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Nicaraguan Peasant Poetry from Solentiname |
| Edited by David Gullette |
| “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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The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks |
| Stephen Haven |
| 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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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
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Crow Call |
| Michael Henson |
| 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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Portable Potts |
| Charles 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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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
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Dancing With the Doe: New and Selected Poems, 1986-91 |
| Margaret Randall |
| 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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Into Another Time: Grand Canyon Reflections |
| Margaret Randall |
| 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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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
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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
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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
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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
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This Is My Body |
| Terry Song |
| 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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To Live on this Earth |
| Ken Waldman |
| 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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Down Wind, Down River: New and Selected Poems |
| William Witherup |
| 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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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
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