"The characters in Miriam Karmel's stories hold together the expanding, collective lives of extended family through a cherished and cared-for history of survival that is present and always heard, even
"These are stories of the magic of and connection to Earth, to people and to spirit that can be found on any day we choose to look through eyes of wonder."Winds of ChangeA large gathering of
Now/Here focuses on the diversity and power of the natural environment, examining the tensions and oppositions that exist within climate, land, time, and change. Rather than focusing on the quiet and
Gary Boelhower’s second major collection includes sixty-five poems that explore the ways we are named and branded with multiple identities, a clay vessel molded and imprinted from the inside and the o
A series of interlocking stories form this compelling memoir that begins with the author's birth during the rise of Hitler in 1930s Germany. He and his surviving family escape to Holland and sail to A
"This is a book to browse, to study, to cherish; for, as much as any one book can, it lets the reader know who and what Whitman was and still is?a vital presence.”?Choice, Outstanding Academic Book ci
The poems in Reini-Grandell's second collection time travel her world, taking us on wild, unpredictable journeys to her childhood, into the minds of bears, horses and reindeer, seeing her marriage fro
Visual artist Joan Henrik has been profoundly inspired by the legends and stories that had their origins in native folklore. Native people come from an oral narrative tradition which has always been a
Star QuiltThese are notes to lightning in my bedroom. A star forged from linen thread and patches. Purple, yellow, red like diamond suckers, childrenof the star gleam on sweaty nights. The quilt unfol
"With ME, Brenda Ueland wrote a true book and it is her masterpiece."Patricia Hampl, from the introductionIn work, in play, in marriage, in bringing up her daughter, in her reading (she says
Palominos Near Tuba City is a selection of new and previously published poems from a long and distinguished career. These forty poems take us on a rich and fascinating journey, transporting us through
Drawing on his native heritage, Niatum interweaves the themes of aging and community, speaking powerfully of dislocation and banishment from "the country of my blood." Indelible images from the animal
In its lyricism and rich detail, this collection of sixteen meditations is very much in the tradition of Joseph Wood Krutch's The Desert Year. In the author's knowing hands, the desert landscape of th
