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| ISBN: | 0898230543 |
| Title: | Border Crossings |
| Price: | $8 |
| Year Published: | 1984 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 287 |
| Book Description: | A collection of some of the best individual pieces submitted to the annual Minnesota Voices Project? Midwestern women writers are represented here. Ideal for those interested in the Midwest or for classroom use. "Border Crossings confines itself to regional writing, with the result that it delivers a strong sense of place and of history…Marth Roth's' 'A Waitress Journal,' for example, takes the reader behind the scenes at The Minnesota Room, an ordinary little restaurant…Jane O'Connell Nowak's 'An Orphan isn the Family,' is an account of a poor, fat girl's summer at a rich girl's camp - from weeks of solitude and humiliation to her final, absolutely plausible triumph." Gargoyle |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Agee,Jonis Blakley,Roger Rezmerski,John Shaw,Janet Truesdale,C.W. |
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| ISBN: | 0898231213 |
| Title: | Boundaries of Twilight |
| Price: | $17.95 |
| Year Published: | 1991 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 372 |
| Book Description: | This highly acclaimed collection of poetry, fiction, and memoirs includes work by 25 women writers —Susan Firer, Carolyn Forche, and Patricia Hampl among them. Inspired writing and photographs taken both here and abroad make the collection a remarkable exploration of being Czechoslovakian in Prague, Paris, New York, St. Paul, and San Francisco. "Although many pieces touch upon the clash of Eastern European and American cultures and the gloomy oppressiveness of Communist rule, most deal freshly with the general concerns of human existence - birth, death, family, work, love and sex." —Publishers Weekly |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Hribal,C.J. |
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| ISBN: | 0898230683 |
| Title: | Butterfly Tree |
| Price: | $7 |
| Year Published: | 1985 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 190 |
| Book Description: | This lively anthology brings together work by twenty-one black writers and artists from the upper Midwest. Pamela Fletcher's short story "The Parting," and chapter from a novel "Love and Other Highways" portray young women faced with the need to make difficult decisions. Marcella Taylor's poems take us to the neighborhoods where "elders from old world Reviews """I occasionally teach a course on Midwestern writers. Each time, I've regretted not being able to find enough writings by black midwesterners to include in the class readings. The Butterfly Tree is precisely what I've needed: finely crafted prose, poetry, and graphics by a variety of black women and men.""" countries/fill their gardens with virgin shrines/lit by red petals" while "A few streets away the dark faces of the new world/loiter on the sidewalks marked with lines/of unpacked cartons." |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): |
Balfour,Conrad -- |
| Editor(s): |
Hribal,C.J. |
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| ISBN: | 0898230705 |
| Title: | Collected Translations |
| Price: | $8 |
| Year Published: | 1985 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 151 |
| Book Description: | William Jay Smith has gathered together in this volume translations done over the past decades of peoms in the Romance languages—Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. His selection ranges from thirteenth-century Italy to present-day Brazil. Included are translations of Eugenio Montale, Paul Val'8ery, Federico Garc'92a Lorca, Ferreira Gullar, and Nicanor Parra, along with his widely acclaimed and pioneering versions of Jules Laforgue and Valery Larbaud. "One of the best verse translators now living, William Jay Smith knows how to let his own powerfully distinctive style yield to the style of his originals."—Henry Taylor |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): |
Smith,William J. -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
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| ISBN: | 0898230985 |
| Title: | Concert at Chopin's House |
| Price: | $14.95 |
| Year Published: | 1987 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 250 |
| Book Description: | This collection of writing by Polish-American writers ranges from the humorous to the serious, from the absurd to the profound. Represented are Magda Bogin, whose previous credits include translation of Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits and Natalya, God's Messenger (Harper Row); Helen Degen-Cohen's story 'The Edge of the Field,' which won the Chance Short Fiction Competition, and 15 other new women writers of Polish descent."Family history, family memory, the importance of family are invoked again and again . . . . That Poles have managed to assimilate, despite the language barrier and social prejudi ce is amply demonstrated in this collection by the high number of poems and stories having nothing more intrinsically 'Polish' about them than their authors' surnames." —Minnrapolis Star and Tribune |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Mindezeski,John |
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| ISBN: | 0898231597 |
| Title: | Next Parish Over |
| Price: | $17.95 |
| Year Published: | 1993 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 367 |
| Book Description: | Fifty-seven Irish-American writers-including poet Tess Gallagher and prose writer Sheila O'Conner- are brought together in this lyrical collection. The result is a vivid and stunning insight into what it means to be Irish in America today. "The 45 poems and 24 short stories in this work explore the moral staples of Irish-American life: the Church, alcohol, sexual tyranny, dysfunctional families, and death... A solid, interesting collection of new voices." Publishers Weekly |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Monaghan,Patricia |
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| ISBN: | 0898231655 |
| Title: | Party Train |
| Price: | $18.95 |
| Year Published: | 1996 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Book Description: | An extensive collection of prose poems containing the work of both well- and lesser-known poets, this anthology breaks new ground in defining a hybrid literary form. Works by Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, Maxine Chernoff, Russell Edson, and Walt Whitman as well as many new voices are included. All three editors are published prose poets enthusiastic to discover new poets and refine the discussion of why some poets choose the prose form rather than lineated verse. An extensive historical section shows the development of the genre of prose poetry. "The Party Train proves that the prose poem not only has been thriving in North America for years, but also developing its own distinctly 'American' characteristics. In fact, there seems to be a real prose poem renaissance going on now, so many wonderful voices here, both established and new, all of them reinventing the prose poem in very different ways. The Party Train will be for North American prose poetry what Michael Benedikt's out-of-print classic, The Prose Poem: An International Anthology, was for the prose poem in general - the definitive anthology. I can't imagine a course on the prose poem or very short fiction not including The Party Train on its reading list." Peter Johnson, editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Truesdale,C.W. Alexander,Robert Vinz,Mark |
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| ISBN: | 089823149x |
| Title: | Perimeter of Light |
| Price: | $15.95 |
| Year Published: | 1992 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 280 |
| Book Description: | Though it ended 23 years ago, the Vietnam War is still very much with us, as this unprecedented anthology demonstrates. Here, these strong writers explore the war in its broadest implications: in combat stories protest tales, and accounts of the effects on parents and children. "Outstanding, multifaceted collection of writing on Vietnam. Particularly welcome are the number of stories of the hitherto underrepresented women's experience of Vietnam." Kirkus Reviews |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Vie Balfour,Vivian |
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| ISBN: | 0898231205 |
| Title: | Slant-Six |
| Price: | $9.95 |
| Year Published: | 1990 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Book Description: | The six offbeat plays collected here from a zany reminiscence on the Mary Worth comic strip to a feminist monologue inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy to story of the clash between White and Native American cultures have all been successfully produced, and together represent the best of new American theater. |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Jenness,Morgan Richardson,John Wellman,Mac |
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| ISBN: | 089823106x |
| Title: | Stiller's Pond |
| Price: | $15.95 |
| Year Published: | 1991 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 500 |
| Book Description: | This book is an enlarged second edition of a collection that was heralded as both "ambitious" and "flavorful" when it originally appeared in 1988. Many of the writers anthologized including Jon Hassler, Carol Bly, Kathleen Norris, Diane Glancy, and Will Weaver will be well-known to readers. Stiller's Pond is a celebration of the Upper Midwest. "If you want a book that allows you to sample the varied voices talking, singing, complaining, remembering, enduring, and loving in this heartland, you'll want to read the new Stiller's Pond." St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Agee,Jonis Blakley,Roger Welch,Susan |
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| ISBN: | 0898231906 |
| Title: | Talking of Hands |
| Price: | $19.95 |
| Year Published: | 1998 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Book Description: | A unique collection of sixty new and unpublished works, including poems, short fiction, and creative nonfiction, written by authors published by New Rivers Press over a thirty-year period. It is a celebration of New Riversis ongoing commitment to new and emerging writers. Features an introduction by David Haynes, author of Heathens and Right by My Side. |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Truesdale,C.W. Alexander,Robert Vinz,Mark |
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| ISBN: | 0898231795 |
| Title: | Tanzania on Tuesday |
| Price: | $19.95 |
| Year Published: | 1997 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 464 |
| Book Description: | 1998 Minnesota Book Award Winner A collection of 47 stories telling of life outside the United States, paining in fine detail the intimate details of day-to-day living. From the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania to Jos'8e Marti International airport in Cubs, women writers have given us distinctive accounts of living abroad. "Fascinating. . . . In the best tradition of the genre, this splendid collection of travel writing stimulates thought, challenges our preconceptions and causes us to reflect on the meaning of home."St. Paul Pioneer Press |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Truesdale,C.W. Coskran,Kathleen |
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| ISBN: | 0898232066 |
| Title: | Tilting the Continent |
| Price: | $18.95 |
| Year Published: | 2000 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 220 |
| Book Description: | Tilting the Continent is the first collectio of Southeast Asian Americank writing, and appropriately it appears in the first year of the new millennium. This anthology features poetry, short stories, and essays by residents of the U.S. with Bruneian, Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Singaporean, Thai, or Vietnamese heritage, including recent immigrants as well as second-, third-, and fourth- generation writers. Themes include family, community, love, and becoming American. This anthology, like most New Rivers Press anthologies, includes established as well as new writers. |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Lok Chua,Cheng Lok Chua,Cheng |
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| ISBN: | 9780898232325 |
| Title: | To Sing Along The Way |
| Price: | $17.95 |
| Year Published: | 2006 |
| Trim Size: | 6 X 9 |
| Pages | 245 |
| Book Description: | Minnesota Women Poets From Pre-Territorial Days to the Present |
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| Reviews: | “In this book, there lies a story for every woman who is pulled in many directions by motherhood, tradition, financial necessity, love, duty, and the demands of her imagination. In “this ambitious anthology of poems by Minnesota women from the mid-1800s, satire and outrage combine when they examine indentured pickers, fatalities and anguish in both world wars, wartime profits on Wall Street, and disastrous government boarding schools for Native Americans.” |
| Review Source: | Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Up Country |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Tammaro,Thom Wanek,Connie Stuphen,Joyce |
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| ISBN: | 0898230918 |
| Title: | Touchwood |
| Price: | $16.95 |
| Year Published: | 1987 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 188 |
| Book Description: | Widely praised at its debut in 1987, the reprint of this landmark collection edited by celebrated Ojibway writer Gerald Vizenor brings back into print seven writers from a tradition that claims more published writers than any other American Indian tribe. Brilliant and evocative pieces by contemporary writers Louise Erdich, Jim Northrup, Bonnie Wallace, and Vizenor round out a collection of some of the finest American writing, past and present. "The stories' messages take powerful hold of the reader. This book is Ojibway life, and its subtext is the saving power of the story itself." Hungry Mind Review |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Vizenor,Gerald |
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| ISBN: | 089823039x |
| Title: | Turmoil in Hungary |
| Price: | $6 |
| Year Published: | 1982 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 188 |
| Book Description: | Twenty modern Hungarian poets are represented in this anthology, some of the like Sandor, Csoori, among the best of contemporary European poets. Kolumban, an Hungarian national who emigrated to the United States in 1956, is himself a poet and his selection reflects that background and sensitivity. "Modern Hungarian poetry is highly personal and individualistic. At times, each poet seems to view himself as a microcosm of his nation...The turmoil in Hungary throughout this century is the well-spring for most of the poems. If the turmoil is over, the Hungarian poet does not seem to realize it. He is waiting for the other shoe to drop. There's a prevailing tone of gentle and settled sadness in many of the finest poems. At the very core of this poetry there's a profound sense of something lost. This is indeed a singular and remarkable collection of candid and provocative poems." William M. White |
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| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
kolumban,Nicholas |
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| ISBN: | 0898231493 |
| Title: | Two Worlds Walking |
| Price: | $17.95 |
| Year Published: | 1994 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Book Description: | Transcending the issue of ethnic diversity to examine what it means to be a writer of two or more cultures, this book brings together short story writers, poets, novelists, essayists, and memoirists. Among a wide array of heritages, the writers speak from American Indian, Korean, Japanese, Anglo-Saxon, Chinese, African American, Armenian, and Eastern European culture. Each author brings a new perspective to what it means to be an "American." "We live in America. The Melting Pot. But we've found that character and culture don't melt. Maybe under some conditions. But not ordinary life. Our strength is our diversity." Diane Glancy, from her introduction |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Anthology |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Glancy,Diane |
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