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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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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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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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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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Ransack |
| Michael Henson |
| 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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I Hear Men Talking (revised edition) |
| Meridel Le Sueur |
| 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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The Girl (revised edition) |
| Meridel Le Sueur |
| 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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Harvest Song: Stories and Essays |
| Meridel Le Sueur |
| 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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The Dread Road |
| Meridel Le Sueur |
| 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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Women on the Breadlines |
| Meridel Le Sueur |
| 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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Longshot O’Leary Counsels Direct Action |
| Thomas McGrath |
| 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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Overtime: Punchin’ Out with The Mill Hunk Herald Magazine (1979-1989) |
| The Mill Hunk Herald |
| 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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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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