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A collection of dark poems combining squalor and urban decay with elements of Christian spirituality and redemption.

The 2005 ChicagoPoetry.com Solidarity Series Selection. A collection of poems dealing with identity and growth through knowledge of oneself, history, and surroundings.

A varied collection of detailed poems rooted in the Midwest and the mythology and energy in it that goes unnoticed.

One in a series of chapbooks published of writers at the Guild Complex. Varied poems, offering inspirational looks at love, culture, personal history, and the power of hip hop.

A collection of poems in memory of the author's wife that traces the grieving process from dying to the acceptance of it.

<p>Few will argue that writing and reading poetry help people discover beauty and truth in the world. These poems show how people create that meaning, organize their lives, and protect themselves from chaos &ndash; how they create a truth that brings safety and beauty to their experience, and how, when they fail to forge the link to Nature, the emptiness and the pain are palpable.<br /></p><p>The first section of the book deals with the process by which meaning is created and assigned to or imposed on events and things.<br /><br />The second part shows how well such an approach can work.<br /><br />The third paints the bleaker view when people lose their link with Nature, when they cannot link with each other.</p>

Short chapbook of poems, many later contained in the book Rooftop Piper.<br />

A collection of vaguely autobiographical poetry on love, romance, and navigating Chicago and the West Suburbs as a New Englander.<br />

90 poems on the author's neighborhood, friends, and observations of Chicago in general., as well as thoughts on cultural and labor politics.<br />

A collection of poetry by the author