Books

On the Farm, Down the Road

On the Farm, Down the Road is an engaging collection of poems by Minnesota writer, teacher, and editor Ronald Gower. Exploring the mysteries and delights of rural living and traveling across a lifetime of experiences, Gower’s poems map the intricacies and unexpected pleasures of chance encounters amid cycles of seasons.

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Other Americas

Award-winning author Richard Robbins traverses hidden landscapes of memory and the American West to conjure forgotten vistas of a country’s dreams. Evocative, haunting, and compelling, Other Americas explores the back roads and intersections of private history and public life — set against a vast terrain of rugged beauty and mystery. Robbins summons a cast of visionaries and ghosts seeking promises of the past, while scanning uncharted, uncertain horizons ahead. Stunning language, stirring heart.

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Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader

Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader is the first volume in a collected series of new writing and art from the road, featuring the works of nearly four dozen writers, poets, and printmakers from North America.

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Stompin’ at The Grant Terrace: A Jazz Memoir in Verse

In this stunning book of poems and prose, Stompin’ at The Grand Terrace: A Jazz Memoir in Verse, award-winning Minnesota writer Philip Bryant revisits his boyhood home on Chicago’s South Side to capture the sights and sounds of post-war America as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of two old friends whose lives—and loves—spin joyously around jazz.

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