The Rhubarb King Sharon Chmielarz Poetry ISBN 0926147226 $11.95	In these poems, the richly knotted stories of family far away and long ago emerge abruptly in the present, in textured detail, and in a lyric telling that will not settle easily into praise or sorrow. These poems are spoken in a language deft with courage and skill that makes me want to start again–as a reader of this book, as a writer of my own, as a citizen of the country Chmielarz makes whole." -Kim Stafford, author of The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft Sharon Chmielarz has three additional books of poetry, Different Arrangements, But I Won't Go Out In A Boat, and The Other Mozart.
Willow Water Stories Jean Husby Fiction ISBN 0926147161 $13.95	"People used to think of Minnesota as 'pure Scandinavian' despite the settlements of other immigrant groups. These Willow Water Stories, almost like photo albums, give us insight into that strong Scandinavian immigration: farmers eager for the rich Minnesota prairie land, willing to leave Norway, uproot their young families and become Americans. As did Ole Rolvaag and Willa Cather, Jean Husby shows us the experience of being an immigrant, from the hold of a wretched, filthy steamship in her first story to the flourishing small town in northwestern Minnesota eighty years later. Her character, Marit, is sensitively portrayed from young child in the ship docking in New York to eighty-nine-year-old survivor, alone, in the family house her father built." -Joanne Hart, author of Witch Tree, a collaboration with Hazel Belvo Willow Water Stories is Jean Husby's first book.
Dark Lake Kathryn Kysar Poetry ISBN 0926147145 $11.95	"Kathryn Kysar's first poetry collection tastes of the great dark lake of earth, of roots grown in black loam and pulled up to nourish the particular hunger women have for just a bit of grit. Kysar explores the human appetite for image, sensation and scent in an intimate voice that makes the collection entreat, whisper, gossip and confide. In the end, readers come to know Dark Lake as they would a friend." Heid Erdrich Kathryn Kysar has received fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts. She is the editor of a collection of essays, Riding Shotgun: Women Write about Their Mothers.
Uncombed Hair Anne Dunn Poetry ISBN 092614720x $11.95	"Here again, Anne Dunn shows us she is a seer of profound and lyrical insight. Her poems, like her stories, bear eloquent witness to injustices local and global even as they awaken us to the sacred wtihin the ordinary, the immense beauty of the plain. Drawing richly on her Ojibwe tradition, Dunn's imagination shines far and wide to illuminate truths common to us all." -Michael McNally Anne Dunn's short stories have been published in three collections: When Beaver Was Very Great, Grandmother's Gift and Winter Thunder.
Outside After Dark Susan Carol Hauser Poetry ISBN 0926147153 $14.95	"Susan Carol Hauser's poems are "words and images gleaned from the heart", the heart of Minnesota, the heart of Africa, the heart of the poet. You don't have to figure out what Hauser's "trying"to say. Only allow yourself to be carried along, by canoe, taxi or airplane, by laughter (Generation Gap) or music (Ada, a villanelle). Feel the way a seal travels, see how a poet works (Tower View), ponder our relationship to time (Amsterdam), to birth and death, (Woman Seeking Flowers) or to our bodies (Anatomy). Outside After Dark can best be described with Hauser's own words from Dreaming of Africa: "a dowsing rod of the heart seeking the water of home." -Helen Bonner