A collection of tough, extremely funny poems by a woman whose imagination never runs dry. Quirky, edgy, sometimes poignant and sometimes uproarious. You will love this book!

Recipe for Disaster

Literature & Fiction

Miller, Pamela

Poetry

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John Plan's professional life as a journalist informs his clear, open voice and sense of everyday detail. This selection, reaching back twenty years, establishes his quiet eloquence in poems which convery a deep, straightforward honesty about the fumblings, failures and occasional radiance of human life.

Open Communion

Palen, John

This group of poems grows out of the history and voices of Suzanne Keyworth's ancestors, who came to the new world in the early 1600’s and the early 1700’s, and were active in the history of Florida. The volume includes family trees and drawings of some of the major ancestors whose voices we hear in the poems

Markers

Suzanne Keyworth

<p>Poetry. Edited by Diane Shipley DeCillis and Mary Jo Firth Gillett. The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the history of art. It continues to inspire reproduction, parody and countless theories. We see facsimiles of it everywhere: on buildings and mugs, on computer ads, in cartoons. In honor of her 500th birthday, 2003-2006, MONA POETICA celebrates not only the painting but also inspiration and creativity. This rich and varied anthology includes work by: Stephen Dunn, Grace Bauer, William Blake, Edward Hirsch, Natasha Saje and many others. Diane Shipley DeCillis is a graduate of University of Michigan whose poems have appeared in numerous journals. She also owns an award-wining art gallery in Southfield, Michigan. Mary Jo Firth Gillett's award-winning chapbooks are Not One (Detroit Writer's Voice, '98), Tiger in a Hairnet (Small Poetry Press, Select Poets Series, '99), and Chandeliers of Fish (Poetry West, '04). Her poetry also appears in the anthology of Michigan poets, New Poems from the Third Coast. Mary Jo has won the N.Y. Open Voice Poetry Award and teaches poetry workshops for Springfed Arts-Metro Detroit Writers.</p>

Mona Poetica: A Poetry Anthology

Fiction. As Charles Baxter says, "All the grit, humor, intelligence and darkness of Detroit" can be found in this collection of stories about people struggling to love and be loved. Rhoda Stamell began writing fiction at the age of 50 and retired from teaching high school to write full-time at 61. She has won several awards and writing residencies.

Detroit Stories

Stamell, Rhoda

<p>Cultural Writing. Poetry. Fiction. Memoir. Recipes. Do you know: How maraschinos are made? Why there aren't any pitless cherries? What makes a great cherry margarita? Cherries are to Northern Michigan what oranges are to Florida! In this highly personal view of Michigan's cherry industry, Angela Williams cooks up a delightful confection of reminiscences, poems, recipes, facts and photos. Find out how cherry growing got started in the state and which Michigan cultural traditions were spawned by the cherry industry. Learn what it's like to work through a "pack." Discover all the things you can do with cherry pits. Get official pit-spitting contest rules. And try out mouth-watering recipes for the best cherry pie, a zingy relish of ginger-spiced cherries, and the festive cherry chocolate martini.</p>

With a Cherry on Top: Stories, Poems, Recipes & Fun Facts from Michigan Cherry Country

Williams, Angela

History & Criticism

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated from the Hebrew by David Cooper. In its Hebrew original, this collection of intense erotic poetry won the 1992 AKUM prize in Israel. Novelist Tsipi Keller says, "It is hard to speak of Rachel Eshed's poetry without mentioning 'fire'--her poems virtually burn on the page, and David Cooper's renditions not only do justice to the original but magnify its richness." Rachel Eshed was born on Kibbutz Degania Aleph in 1951, the daughter of holocaust survivors. She has studied theater and fine arts in Israel and London. In 1995, "Havtachot Ktanot" ("Little Promises') was published by Kibbutz Hameuchad; the manuscript received the 1992 AKUM Prize (AKUM is the Israeli equivalent of ASCAP). Her third book, "Shkufa Bachalon" ("Transparent In The Window" - 1999), received the 2001 the Bernstein Prize for Original Hebrew Poetry.

Little Promises

Eshed, Rachel

Poetry. In richly detailed, exuberant poems, Zilka Joseph embraces the vivid passions of her childhood home in Calcutta and the complex hopes and fears implicit in her move to the Midwest. Zilka Joseph was born in Bombay, India, She grew up and was educated in Calcutta. She moved to Chicago with her husband in 1997 and currently lives in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Lands I Live In

Joseph, Zilka

Poetry. Botkin examines questions of mortality, consciousness, and the concept of self. Although sometimes metaphysical, this subject matter doesn't alienate the reader because Botkin's clear, focused craft shapes her subject matter into a very natural-feeling art. Memories start as solid events and become fragmented over time; Botkin takes those fragments and creates a luminous image of what was once whole. Nancy Botkin's poems have appeared in numerous journals, and her chapbook, Signs of Life, was published by No Exit Press in 1999. Nancy lives in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband and teaches freshman composition and creative writing at Indiana University South Bend.

Parts That Were Once Whole

Botkin, Nancy

Poetry. This is a double collection of playful and surprisingly moving poems rooted in a theme of circus life. THE BOOK OF CLOWN BABY explores the fantasy existence of Gerry LaFemina's character, Clown Baby. Occupied by visions of trick horses, parades and high-wire acts, Clown Baby relates the fantastic to the common reality where he finds himself. Similarly, in the Figures, LaFemina, with his profound gift for image, captures the wonder of the big top, as imagined and recreated in children's play. Gerry LaFemina's poetry collection THE PARAKEETS OF BROOKLYN received the 2003 Bordighera Prize in Poetry and was published in a bi-lingual edition of English and Italian. Among his honors are prizes from the Academy of American Poets and fellowships from the Irving Gilmore Emerging Artist Foundation and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. The former editor of the literary journal Controlled Burn, LaFemina now co-edits with poet Dennis Hinrichsen Review Revue, a journal of reviews, interviews and prosody essays. Currently he directs the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing at Frostburg State University where he is an Assistant Professor of English.

The Book of Clown Baby / Figures from The Big Time Circus Book

LaFemina, Gerry

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