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Made in Michigan Writers Series2012 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalist!allegiancepoems by francine j. harris“francine j. harris is truly a poet, doingmuch of her work below the surface ofher words. There is not a forgettablepoem on any of these pages.”—Laura KasischkeNarrative poems on the hazards, betrayals,and annoyances of city life mixwith impressionistic poems that evokethe natural world, as harris grappleswith issues of beauty and horror, loyaltyand individuality, and memory andloss on Detroit’s complicated canvas.2012 / 6.5 x 8 / 128 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3618-2$15.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3619-9 eMade in Michigan Writers SeriesTo Embroider theGround with PrayerPoems by Teresa J. Scollon“Never a touch over inflated, orfaint or merely equitable, Scollon’smetaphors hit the mark with a preciseping of recognition, and in poemafter poem—out of the authenticityof her speaking and the caliber of hercraft—the rhapsodic arrives.”—Gray JacobikA portrait of poet Teresa J. Scollon’sseveral worlds, as she accompaniesher father through his illness and deathand records the richness of family andcommunity life in her Michigan town.2012 / 6 x 9 / 104 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3620-5$15.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3621-2 eMade in Michigan Writers Series2011 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year!Finalist in the category of PoetryAt the Bureau ofDivine MusicPoems By Michael Heffernan“Poet Michael Heffernan is no strangerto travel. His ninth collection of poetry,At The Bureau of Divine Music, shimmiesacross the globe, memory and personaquicker than high-speed rail…As movingas a high, open tree swing, pendulatingbetween the foreign and thefamiliar—Heffernan’s latest collectionis a triumphant road leading home…”—ForeWord Reviews2011 / 6 x 9 / 80 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3510-9$15.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3633-5 eMade in Michigan Writers SeriesBooker T. & ThemA BluesAs presented by Bill Harris“The genius of Bill Harris has neverbeen more evident than in Booker T& Them. This book is such a tightlywoven fabric of history, biography,poetry, drama, song, sound, quotations,and definitions that the threadsdefy separation.“—Naomi Long Madgett, poet laureateof DetroitIn the historical and imaginativenarrative of this “bio-poem,” Harrisconsiders several African Americanswho sought to be men that matteredin a racist America.2012 / 5.5 x 8.5 / 264 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3716-5$18.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3717-2 eMade in Michigan Writers Series2011 Eric Hoffer Book AwardsFinalist in the category of PoetryBirth of a Notion; Or,The Half Ain’t NeverBeen ToldAs written by Bill Harris“Caringly researched and poeticallydelivered, this savvy book picks upthe story of ethnic stereotyping fromwhere the late filmmaker MarlonRiggs’ Ethnic Notions leaves off. Likeall official stories, social myth fills aneed. The need for white AmericanChristians to justify the riches theyreaped from owning slaves seemsobvious. But why does the myth ofblack inferiority persist? Harris stepsup to the plate to hit at this and othercrucial questions about the nature ofspite, self-justification, and the selfdefeatingconcepts of racial superiorityand the Other.”—Al Young, poet laureate emeritusof California2010 / 5.5 x 8.5 / 232 pp / 45 illusISBN 978-0-8143-3408-9$18.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3527-7 eMade in Michigan Writers SeriesThe Light BetweenPoems by Terry Blackhawk“Haunted by what can’t be replaced—like ‘lost sounds / trying to make themselvesheard’—The Light Between is agraceful articulation of the persistenceof language to give back to us a knowingreflection of ourselves.”—Natasha Trethewey, author ofNative Guard2012 / 6 x 9 / 104 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3614-4$15.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3615-1 eMade in Michigan Writers Series(800) 978-7323 wsupress.wayne.edu 41