Resultaten gefilterd op "West End Press"

Skins and Bones

Paula Gunn Allen

• Paperback | Engels
• These poems offer a vision of history, Indian and colonial; stories of contemporary Indian life as current as headlines; and family poems emphasizing ... Lees meer

West Bound

Robert Franklin Gish

• Paperback | Engels
• These interlocking stories begin with foundation tales of the migration of JJ, his wife Naomi, and their son Otis from their chaotic family beginnings... Lees meer

Work Is Love Made Visible

Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

• Paperback | Engels
• Both homespun and sophisticated, this book of poems and family memories carries a bite: the author is an Oklahoma woman with a history of hard traveli... Lees meer

Caput Nili

Lisa Gill

• Paperback | Engels
• Caput Nili: How I Won the War and Lost My Taste for Oranges recounts the true story of what happened when award-winning poet Lisa Gill threatened to h... Lees meer

The Smoking Mirror

Naomi Quiñónez

• Paperback | Engels
• This is the second volume of poems by Naomi Quiñónez to be published by West End Press. The first, Sueño de Colibri/Hummingbird Dream , appeared in 19... Lees meer

Walking Backwards

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

• Paperback | Engels
• Walking Backwards is about making a home when you are a nomad, and adding an American self to the many selves that the world's myriad, bewildering pla... Lees meer

Closing the Hotel Kitchen

Robert Bohm

• Paperback | Engels
• Closing the Hotel Kitchen is about war. It is also about falling apart when that is the only route left to sanity. It takes place during the 1960s and... Lees meer

Ndakinna (Our Land)

Joseph Bruchac

• Paperback | Engels
• Written over a period of twelve years and published in magazines and anthologies, these beautiful poems of place and Abenaki Indian heritage are addre... Lees meer

A Woman in Pieces Crossed a Sea

Denise Bergman

• Paperback | Engels
• For one year after its arrival in the United States the dismantled Statue of Liberty sat in 214 unopened crates on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.... Lees meer

Line of Sight

Michele D Gibbs

• Paperback | Engels
• The creative impulse of Michele D. Gibbs comes from many sources: her Chicago childhood as the daughter of Communist parents, her academic training, h... Lees meer

Nobody's Jackknife

Ellen McGrath Smith

• Paperback | Engels
• With insight, humor, and uncompromising honesty, Nobody's Jackknife explores power and powerlessness, violence and tenderness, addiction and love. The... Lees meer

What the Bird Tattoo Hides

Robert Bohm

• Paperback | Engels
• In a new, compelling poetry collection, What the Bird Tattoo Hides , Bohm arrives in rural India in 1968, "seeking truth's taste." His stories about m... Lees meer

Salt Lick

Glenna Luschei

• Paperback | Engels
• Forty years worth of poems from nineteen collections, with a generous addition of new pieces, this collection contains the themes and treatments that ... Lees meer

The Portable Potts

Charles Potts

• Paperback | Engels
• For more than forty years, Charles Potts has remained true to his origins as a relentless and radical visionary. This selection of poetry, fiction, an... Lees meer

Before You Become Improbable

Nick Depascal

• Paperback | Engels
• 2013 Winner of the West End Poetry Prize for a first volume "If poetry can be prayer, this book is indeed a praise song to the foibles of modern life.... Lees meer

Time Served

Carlos Contreras

• Paperback | Engels | New
• This provocative debut from National Poetry Slam Champion Carlos Contreras is a conversation in two parts: one, a monologue-style musing on working in... Lees meer

Otredad / Otherness

Claribel Alegría

• Paperback | Engels, Spaans
• Claribel Alegría, born in Estelí, Nicaragua, in 1924, is one of the great voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry. She left her family's Nic... Lees meer

With Our Eyes Wide Open

Valentine

• Paperback | Engels
• With Our Eyes Wide Open is an anthology composed of poets from America and around the world who write about the struggles of the world's outcasts, imm... Lees meer

Into Another Time

Margaret Randall

• Paperback | Engels
• Margaret Randall describes her long love affair with the Grand Canyon as dating to the summer of 1947 when, lying about her age, her father took her d... Lees meer

What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

• Paperback | Engels
• Written over the last decade, these poems include memories of the author's early childhood in Malaysia, immigration to America, and travel throughout ... Lees meer

Sonoran Strange

Logan Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | New
• Sonoran Strange is a poem cycle about the Arizona-Sonoran borderlands, as told through the stories of historic, ironic, and sometimes ludicrous charac... Lees meer

Trouble Light

Gerald McCarthy

• Paperback | Engels
• "I have always lived deliberately." These are the words of an exceptional poet who, in Trouble Light , has concentrated on the themes closest to his h... Lees meer

Weaving the Legacy

• Paperback | Engels
• This collection is a celebration of Paula Gunn Allen's life (1939-2008) as an indigenous scholar, writer, and woman. It features the creative writing,... Lees meer

Crow Call

Michael Henson

• Paperback | Engels
• Both a memorial and a call to awareness, these poems were written in response to the death of a friend. Buddy Gray, a grassroots activist and co-found... Lees meer