Red Sky Anthology Reading Aloud In Northern Michigan

This family saga is set within the framework of the tumultuous events of 20th-century China. Anhua (little flower) is the daughter of two revolutionary martyrs who leave her and her three siblings orphaned. This is the story of her extraordinary life in this vast and contradictory country. She, like many thousands, suffers under the swinging opinions of the powers that be - finding herself one moment favoured by the authorities and her peers and then denounced and imprisoned.

Poetry. In THE LONG NIGHT OF FLYING, Sharon Olson's engaging first collection, the reader is taken on a journey into a world of vulnerability, incipience, and mystery. There is a textured richness in the poet's tenaciously precise take on the world around us, whether its subject matter is the theft of a Vermeer, an indictment of the brutalities of war, or the loss of the poet's brother in the crash of a small plane. "Awash as we are in so much self-regard with its own closed world and banal speech, it's bracing, it's heartening to enter this gathering of true poems"--John Felstiner. "Read Sharon Olson's poems aloud to someone you love. Passionate, finely nuanced, and precise, these poems' surprising turns take you somewhere new"--Frances Mayes.

Understanding Objects Vincent Katz First major book of poems from a well-known New York poet and son of famous artist (Alex Katz) who contributes the cover. "Vincent Kat'z poems have an admirable combination of qualities: they're modest and authoritative, weighty and quick, they give simultaneously an impression of performance and of evanescence."

Poetry. African American studies. "For Lydia, poetry is about everything--love, family, hate, the forbidden--everything. This book gives a new voice to poetry with the wildness of fire, with the wildness that only words can know"--Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.

Walton Golightly's beautifully layered epic weaves fact and fiction, history and myth, to create a compelling tribute to the might of Shaka KaSenzangakhona, the father of the Zulu nation.

Poetry. It is a truism that a persistent trickle of water carved out the Grand Canyon. In Jono Schneider's first book, this truism can be applied axiomatically where an inexorable flow of words erodes the extraneous to reveal vast muteness. Within this space, narrative traces arise, skirmish, and disappear. Familiarity exerts its own betrayal where "the only promise I can make is the one I will never reveal." "...BUT I COULD NOT SPEAK... occurs in and as a moment, one that it has opened for itself in the midst of a story so that its meanings can emerge...As readers of this wonderful book, our own involvement begins within its exquisite, noticeable sentences...we want nothing better than to pause at each of them, not in aesthetic wonder but so as to participate in the action that is the book"--Lyn Hejinian.

This collection about countryside apparitions, forebears, and writing verse as the private art of producing anonymous, uncircumstanced births contemplates Retirement, and stirs / In core-deep, uncontracted / Wonderment: what now?

It is the summer of 2000 and Bell, a student from Minnesota, is employed at an elite restaurant on Mackinac island. With a circumference of just nine miles and no automobiles allowed, this unique resort on Lake Michigan is teeming with horse-drawn carriages, top-shelf vodka, bicycles, smoked whitefish and inspiring relationships. Forty years later, Bell is stranded in her St Paul home clearing away the belongings of a lifetime while she awaits the arrival of a guest from that deceptively idyllic summer. Afloat is an exquisitely distilled exploration of material and spiritual values and - equally - a riveting story of loyalty, betrayal and survival.

A collection of poems that explores the presences that deepen our lives through imagery rooted in the world of the senses and in daily life.