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Poetry and LiteratureThe GoldenUndergroundPoems by Anthony Butts“These poems are by turns enigmaticand magnetic. They pull you intoa world that is at once familiar andstrange.”—Geoffrey Jacques, author of Just fora Thrill (Wayne State University Press,2005)The Golden Underground takes its titlefrom a section of Wallace Stevens’spoem “Sunday Morning” and offers ablend of the mythic and the religious.Award-winning poet Anthony Buttsrecords his search for meaning andunderstanding in everyday life.2009 / 6 x 9 / 56 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3389-1$19.95s paperISBN 978-0-8143-3546-8 eAfrican American Life SeriesBobweaving DetroitThe Selected Poems ofMurray JacksonEdited with a postscript byTed Pearson andKathryne V. Lindberg“These resonant poems bob andweave in graceful, dedicated rhythmsof black public life and dark communalwisdom, to execute the most remarkableballet of the inner passions, lyricalevocations of natural and peopledworlds where the soul eternally discoverswonder, desire, elegant beauty andlove.”—Houston A. Baker, Jr., DukeUniversity2003 / 6 x 9 / 104 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3194-1$18.95s paperISBN 978-0-8143-3912-1 eAfrican American Life SeriesLetters to AmericaContemporary AmericanPoetry on RaceEdited by Jim Daniels“This is a wonderful book. . . for lookingat ourselves as a country beginninga new century. This is the real deal:the kitchen table conversation. Thesepoems need to be read. I can’t thinkof a book more timely.”—Kenneth McClane, CornellUniversityAdresses topics of race with poemson civil rights, humor, interracial love,segregation, immigration, stereotypes,and violence, among other subjects.The result is a passionate, honest, andcourageous anthology featuring Black,Native American, Asian, Arabic, Indian,Hispanic, and white poets.1995 / 6 x 9 / 232 ppISBN 978-0-8143-2542-1$24.95s paperA Different ImageThe Legacy of BroadsidePress: An AnthologyEdited by Gloria House, Albert M.Ward, and Rosemary WeatherstonLandmark anthology featuring thework of acclaimed twentieth-centurypoets Gwendolyn Brooks, EtheridgeKnight, Audre Lorde, Haki Madhubuti,Dudley Randall, and SoniaSanchez. Introducing each author’scollection of poems are essays thatpresent the poet’s political, cultural,and aesthetic contributions to theBlack Arts and Black consciousnessmovements. A CD featuring selectedreadings accompanies the text.2004 / 9 x 6 / 288 ppISBN 978-0-911550-97-9$24.95s paper w/audio CDPublished by Broadside Press and the Universityof Detroit Mercy Press and distributed byWayne State University Press2008 Patterson Award forLITERARY ExcellenceIn Line for theExterminatorPoemsJim Daniels“Brings home to Detroit and to Michiganone of our own best witnesses,best record keepers, best elegists. Daniels’understanding of our postindustrial,postwar, racial, ethnic, religiouslyand socially ghettoized communitymakes his a powerful and essentialtestimony. It is generous, singular, andutterly engaging.”—Thomas Lynch2007 / 5 x 8 / 128 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3381-5$17.95s paperISBN 978-0-8143-3548-2 eGreat Lakes Books SeriesPunching OutJim Daniels“Simple observations are often unexpectedlymetamorphosized intoa haunting portrait of working-classlife.”—Rochelle Ratner, Library Journal“[Daniels] captures, as few contemporarypoets do, the sounds of NorthAmerican city speech, illuminating oureveryday experience in the commontongue.”—Julia Stein, Village VoiceDaniel’s second book of poetry takesreaders inside an auto factory withDigger, a young man whose initialreaction of shock and dismay at thedifficult working conditions promptshim to find ways to cope with thedehumanization he experiences there.1990 / 5.25 x 8.75 / 96 ppISBN 978-0-8143-2191-1$14.95l paper44Wayne State University Press regional Books