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Poetry and LiteratureWhat Keeps Me SaneEsperanza CintrónIn What Keeps Me Sane, the 2013 winnerof the Naomi Long Madgett PoetryAward, Esperanza Cintrón introducesfour women whose lives never cross.Yet each in her own way is challengedby conditions that lead her to the brinkof insanity.2013 / 5.5 x 8.5 / 84 ppISBN 978-0-979750-97-7$18.00t paperPublished by Lotus Press Inc. and distributed byWayne State University PressThree Birds DeepPoems by Sheila Carter-JonesWith wild, leaping detail and surprisingconnections, poet Sheila Carter-Jonescatapults the reader into the visceralworld where the whole body lives.“Three Birds Deep” and “How FarDown” introduce us to the father whohas worked deep down in the earthmining coal and now suffers physicallyfrom the effects. We get to know thebrother, veteran of the Vietnam War towhom death and killing have becomeordinary, in “Here. Now. Nam,” “Elegyfor Douglas Mason,” “Pretty Boy,” and“Die Laughing.”2012 / 5.5 x 8.5 / 96 ppISBN 978-0-9797509-5-3$18.00t paperPublished by Lotus Press and distributed byWayne State University Press2010 Michigan Notable Book!As selected by the Library of Michigan2010 NAACP Image Award FinalistFor outstanding literary work in the category of poetry2010 Independent Publisher’s BookAward Winner!Roses andRevolutionsThe Selected Writings ofDudley RandallEdited and with an Introduction byMelba Joyce Boyd“An elegantly introduced and lovinglyedited volume befitting the prodigiouslabors of a brilliant and loving poet. Afine gift to Black literary and culturalstudies.”—Houston A. Baker, Jr., DistinguishedUniversity Professor of English atVanderbilt UniversityBrings together Randall’s most popularpoems with his lesser-known shortstories and several of his essays.2009 / 6 x 9 / 256 pp / 8 illusISBN 978-0-8143-3445-4$27.95s clothAfrican American Life SeriesPilgrim JourneyNaomi Long MadgettIn Pilgrim Journey, award-winning poetNaomi Long Madgett describes thepeople and events that influenced herlife and work. Written with a wealthof detail and personal reflection andillustrated with fifty photographs, thisbook will be insightful, rewarding, andinspirational for readers.2006 / 6 x 9 / 492 ppISBN 978-0-916418-97-7$35.00l clothPublished by Lotus Press Inc. and distributed byWayne State University PressMore poetry titles from Lotus Pressare available on our website,wsupress.wayne.edu2007 Michigan Notable Book!As selected by the Library of MichiganHouse of FieldsMemories of a Rural EducationAnne-Marie Oomen“Anne-Marie Oomen brings not onlythe past, its people and domestic mythologies,to life in this brilliant book,but she brings life to the landscape,the seasons, and the very walls thatcontained them. Measured, musical,and wise, these pieces give us apoet’s sense of the mystical, with astoryteller’s attention to character andplace. A kind of travelogue of the spiritand an ode to the miracle of memory,this is memoir to the highest power.”—Laura Kasischke, author of The LifeBefore Her Eyes and Suspicious River2006 / 6 x 9 / 176 pp / 5 illusISBN 978-0-8143-3285-6$19.95s paperISBN 978-0-8143-3566-6 eGreat Lakes Books Series2005 Michigan Notable Book!As selected by the Library of MichiganPulling Downthe BarnMemories of a RuralChildhoodAnne-Marie Oomen“At the heart of this book is a quietawareness of the subtle and incrementalways a child’s comprehensionof the universe expands and altersover time. By interlinking observant,evocative, lyrical essays to form arichly reflective memoir, Oomen deftlyand quietly brings these moments ofchange to life.”—ForeWord Magazine2004 / 6 x 9 / 152 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3233-7$19.95s paperISBN 978-0-8143-3579-6 eGreat Lakes Books Series(800) 978-7323 wsupress.wayne.edu 43