Winner of the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky Editors Choice Award, a poetry collection that portrays quintessentially American struggles and hopes. Spanning girlhood to motherhood, How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan traces the lineage of four generations of a Flint, Michigan family--from the trailer park to the factory floor to, perhaps, a future far away. These poems examine the wreckage of the American Dream and ask who will answer for the promises we were made to believe as children: God? Industry? America? If we are all a part of the problem, are we are also all a part of the cure?

How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Carson, Sarah

Poetry

Persea

Poetry. Told in prose poems, BUICK CITY is a coming-of-age tale about growing up in the deindustrialized Midwest—about trailer park kids fending for themselves while laid-off parents navigate their new minimum wage jobs; about teenagers inventing sex on the loading dock behind the convenience store; about young people yearning for a life beyond making a living and fighting with customers at the 24 hour supermarket. From neighborhood Casanovas to part-time hitmen to grandmothers run-ragged, the portraits of life in BUICK CITY offer a glimpse into the world beyond factory closings and rustbelt blight and into the life of a place teeming with desperation, joy, and hope. "Sarah Carson has an imaginative gift for transporting us within the nuances &amp; netherworld of her hometown. I can't imagine are more dead-eye illumination of the region—told with incredible wit &amp; a rough-minded passion. Many might steer you from the town itself, but missing out on BUICK CITY would be a decidedly wrong turn. I will gladly enjoy returning to these pages—and often."—Ben Hamper "Mercifully without glibness, derision or rancor, the sinewy poems in BUICK CITY chronicle the petty crimes taking place outside love motels and flavored with instant cocoa; the heart of the culture found in the break room at the back of a 24-hour supermarket. Like Updike's "A&amp;P" retold by a Rust Belt girl born in 1984, Sarah Carson boldly goes where few poets dare—straight into a (Mid)Western consciousness redolent with pop rocks, black pepper, diet Coke and weed. I'm so grateful we have this desperate, hopeful, utterly American work."—Arielle Greenberg "Sarah Carson is the bard of the Flint, Michigan working class. Her poems sketch the lives of the workers in the post-manufacturing economy: the warehouse worker, the twenty-four hour store clerk—the jobs that survived after the living wages disappeared. She speaks for the blighted yet beautiful souls subject to twenty pallets of diet soda to unload, mandatory piss tests, loading dock romances, and HR legalese. The collection feels—as good poetry should—like the walls between one person and the next are very thin."—Frank Montesonti

Buick City

Mayapple Press

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Quit: The Hypnotist's Handbook to Running Effective Stop Smoking Sessions

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Marion, Jess

Carson, Shawn

Psychology & Counseling

Changing Mind

The Meta Pattern is at the heart of all successful influence whether in therapy or business. This 4 step process is used unconsciously by the most effective communicators globally and can be found in every NLP change work pattern. Whether you want to be more influential as a hypnotist, coach, or business person the Meta Pattern gives you tools to be successful. This work by Carson and Carson dives deeply into the ultimate structure of influence providing you with multiple examples of how you can use it, how it relates to hypnosis, NLP, and business, and the neuroscience that supports this process. Once you understand the Meta Pattern your influence skills will grow exponentially and you will be able to work with anyone to create lasting positive change.

The Meta Pattern: The Ultimate Structure of Influence for Coaches, Hypnosis Practitioners, and Business Executives (NLP Mastery)

Self-Help

Overdurf, John

Neuro-Linguistic Programming

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The BEAT Coaching System (NLP Mastery)

HypnoGames for HypnoJunkies is a fun and colorful guide to some classic and many new hypnosis games. These games are a great way to build your skill as a hypnotist, create magic moments for clients, wow audiences, and help you develop a deeper rapport with your own unconscious mind. This fully illustrated guide contains 31 games for your hypnosis enjoyment and learning.

HypnoGames For HypnoJunkies

From Call to Client is your illustrated guide to running effective phone consultations.  This fully illustrated book is designed to walk hypnotherapists through the core principles for successfully closing with new clients.  You will learn how to screen prospective clients, how to handle the question of price, and how to communicate to the prospect's unconscious mind over the phone in a way that is ethical and leaves them already changing by the end of the call.  This book is ideal for hypnotists who have an interest in helping people quit smoking.  This was originally written as a companion to the top selling "Quit: The Hypnotist's Handbook to Running Effective Stop Smoking Sessions".  The principles presented here apply to all prospective client calls.

From Call to Client: The Official Guide To Turning Prospects Into High Paying and Satisfied Stop Smoking Clients

Based on the NLP and HNLP Presuppositions, "Small Thoughts For Big Change" is a small book chock full of big ideas. Each colorful page presents a belief/presupposition/thought for the reader to ponder upon and consider how it can change their life. Containing over 21 presuppositions and 6 specific exercises or "explorations" as the authors call them, "Small Thoughts For Big Change" is a must have for anyone interested in the study of NLP or in creating magical change for themselves or others.

Small Thoughts For Big Change: 21 Beliefs To Create Magic In Your Life

Success

Have you ever wished you could create like Leonardo Da Vinci, have the business acumen of Richard Branson, the compassion of the Dalai Lama, or the brilliant mind of Nikola Tesla; or maybe the determination of an Olympic athlete, the flair of a renowned designer, or the strategic ability of a chess grand master? Have you ever wondered what it might be like to sit down and chat with Elizabeth I, seek advice from Abraham Lincoln, or ask for guidance from Nelson Mandela? Imagine having coffee with Babe Ruth, sitting for down for tea with Jane Austen, or shooting the breeze with Wolverine. Who in the world would you most like to meet and receive insight and guidance from? Who would have a place on your personal “dream team” of experts to guide you through life? Within this book, you will learn the hypnotic and neurolinguistic programming (NLP) principles that will allow you do just that. These principles are the secret steps to a pattern used by many of the world’s most successful people, the CIA Pattern. This pattern will show you how to tap into the power of your unconscious mind and draw from it infinite amounts of wisdom, inspiration, and success.

The CIA Pattern: Transform Your Life With Your Inner Dream Team (NLP Mastery)

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