Claribel Alegría, born in Estelí, Nicaragua, in 1924, is one of the great voices in twentieth-cen...

This collection is a celebration of Paula Gunn Allen’s life (1939–2008) as an indigenous scholar,...

Written over the last decade, these poems include memories of the author's early childhood in Mal...

With insight, humor, and uncompromising honesty, Nobody’s Jackknife explores power and powerlessn...

Both homespun and sophisticated, this book of poems and family memories carries a bite: the autho...

Both a memorial and a call to awareness, these poems were written in response to the death of a f...

Here are poems of modern day survival, set in Los Angeles. The woman of the title (from a story b...

In Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island, award-winning poet Lenore Weiss embodies the them...

First published by West End Press in 1982, this book-length poem about a journey across America h...

In these poems, Marianne Broyles acknowledges the historic oppression of Native Americans and oth...

Closing the Hotel Kitchen is about war. It is also about falling apart when that is the only rout...

This sinewy novel chronicles life on a wrecking crew in the Over-the-Rhine neighbourhood of Cinci...