Conrad Hilberry

Stoller (anthropology, West Chester U.) was a sorcerer's apprentice during four field trips to Songhay. He reports the power of witchcraft and the substance of life in this middle Niger River region. No scholarly apparatus. Originally published in 1987. Eighteen of the new meet the best of the rest (from six previous collections) in this cowinner (along with Terese Svoboda's Laughing Africa) of the 1989 Iowa Poetry Prize. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

New & Selected Poems

Sorting the Smoke

Michael Delp

Herbert Scott

As David Wagoner wrote in the earlier volume, The Third Coast, "A Michigan poet may be undistinguishable from an Illinois poet or an Arizona poet (except for subject matter), but the publication of this anthology serves to underline one layer of regional cultural strength, even though these are not 'regional poets:" Over a decade later, Contemporary Michigan Poetry is testimony that Michigan poetry continues to flourish. Preserving the mood and texture of Michigan in the 1980s, this new collection includes the best recent work by the state's most accomplished poets. Among the fifty-three contributors are Charles Baxter, Alice Fulton, Jim Harrison, Janet Kaufmann, Josie Kearns, Thomas Lynch, John R. Reed, and Stephen Tudor. Each of the editors is also a contributor to this sampling of poems. Styles range from understated to extravagant, from closely observed to freely imagined. Poems are as varied as the Michigan landscape. Remarkable in its scope and quality, Contemporary Michigan Poetry offers an arresting look at Michigan life and a special glimpse at the preoccupations that possess residents on the Third Coast.

Poems from the Third Coast

Contemporary Michigan Poetry

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Conrad Hilberry

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