The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (Made in Michigan Writer Series) 0814338658, 9780814338650

Table of contents :
Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction
POEMS
The Ugliest Fish in North America
As the Deer: A Psalm
Whatever Dance
Aubades for the North
Reading
Lac Vieux Desert
The Ritual of Fry Bread
haiku
Post-Storm
Belly, Carry You
Lent
Hotel Stambaugh: Michigan 1977
Waterways
Evacuations
Boating to the Dreamland Bar and Grill
At the Bishop Baraga Shrine
Wawashkeshgiwis
Etienne Brulée
Tahquamenon
Look at the Pretty Clouds
In Cannabis Veritas
Cinder Girl
For Amy
Ontonagon
To Myself at Five Years Old
23 Skidoo
Trackless Law
Wetmore Landing
Rotkäppchen
Behind
The Only Thing to Do This Fall Day
Stuck
Unimproved
Yellow Dog Year
After They Leave
Founded 1903
Ghost Dog
Figure Four Deadfall
Love as Taconite
Picnic Rocks
Drummond Island Fossils
Ways to Hunt Deer
My Father’s Datebook
Island Poem No. 23
Predator and Prey
Things Mama Says
The Books We Found in the Attic Tell Us
Midwest
STORIES
Systematic Botany
The Wanderer
The Possibility of Wolves
Endnotes for Cudighi
Elements of the Pasty
Watching Us
Una Corda
On Highway 23
Turn Right
All Imperfect Things
Notes from the End of My Occupational Life
I Know How Lemmings Winter
The Hitchhiker
Deadfall
For the Healing of All Women
Amira
Tug
Plastic Fantastic
We Tried to Sacrifice Ed to the Devil
Mezzanotte
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
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