Amethyst and Agate
Poems of Lake Superior
Published on 8. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-9864480-1-0 (ISBN)
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Seventy poems, by a variety of poets, who have been inspired by Lake Superior, the world's largest freshwater lake.
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Language
English
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Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
227 gr
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978-0-9864480-1-0 (9780986448010)
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JIM PERLMAN and his family moved to Duluth, Minnesota in 1988, where he co-founded the Spirit Lake Poetry series, and helped establish the Duluth poet laureate project in 2005. With co-editors Deborah Cooper, Mara Hart, and Pamela Mittlefehldt, Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief & Gratitude was published in 2009; The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home was published in 2013.
DEBORAH COOPER is the author of five volumes of poetry and has had her work published in numerous journals and anthologies. She facilitates poetry groups at the St. Louis County Jail and was the 2012-2014 Duluth Poet Laureate.
MARA HART has been an editor of three periodicals and three anthologies. A former librarian and teacher, she now is a writer, mentor and editor. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota with two cats and many books.
PAMELA MITTLEFEHLDT is a poet, writer, editor, and fiddler. The focus of her work is on the power of story to transform our lives as individuals and as communities. She is currently working on a cross-genre project on food, justice, place, and spirit.
Content
Table of Contents, Amethyst and Agate: Poems of Lake Superior
"Solstice," "At the Koitto Boarding House, 1947" by Angela Ahlgren
"Ologothrophic" by James Armstrong
"Windbound with Dostoevsky" by Milton J. Bates
"Counterpoint" by Samuel Black
"Slippage," "Eloquence of Earth" by Kimberly Blaeser
"After Sailing," "Dance at Dawn" by Gary Boelhower
"The North (After Borges)" by Jeffrey D. Boldt
"Gichigami" by Dan Campion
"Angling for Whitefish" by Taina Maki Chalal
"The Ice is Coming in like an Animal to the Shore" by Sharon Chmielarz
"Sailing in the Moon's Wake," "After Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach" by David R. Clowers
"In Dreams" by Carolyn Colburn
"Across the Border" by Deborah Cooper
"After All of My Life" by Florence Dacey
"Superior at the Shoreline: February," "Levitating Toward Duluth" by Norita Dittberner-Jax
"Water Colors," "Wishing for Lake Superior" by Deborah H. Doolittle
"Freights Slide By" by Barbara Draper
"Manidoo Giizhikens: Little Spirit Cedar Tree," "Gitche Inigaming, Grand Portage" by Heid E. Erdrich
"Wooded Road, Lake Superior" by Michelle Bonczek Evory
"Lake Superior Spring," "The Work of Water" by Terry Falsani
"Crossing the Continental Divide" by Lynda M. Ferguson
"Voyager" by Phil Fitzpatrick
"Lake Drought" by Magrot Fortunato Galt
"Northwestern Ontario" by Julie Gard
"Watermark" by Jane George
"Crossing Over" by Candace Ginsberg
"The Great Lake" by Linda Glaser
"Night Sky" by Tom Hansen
"Messages" by Gwen Hart
"After Forty-three Years" by Mara Hart
"Gooseberry Falls, Lake Superior" by Susan Carol Hauser
"Lake Superior" by Susan Hawkinson
"I Tell the Lake a Story," "There is work to do within nothingness" by Eva Hooker
"Into All Things We Enter" by Ann Iverson
"Speaking to the Elders" by Janet Jerve
"Hawk Ridge" by Jim Johnson
"To Begin Again" by Meridel Kahl
"In Concert, the Fluency" by Maggie Kazel
"Spirit Little Cedar" by Susan Deborah King
"Late Ice" by Mary F. Lee
"Easter Dawn on Superior" by Cecilia Lieder
"Shovel Point" by Judy Lindberg
"Key Sequences Missing" by Micky McGilligan
"Lake Superior Poem" by Lisa McKhann
"Poet Laureate of Duluth" by Pamela Mittlefehldt
"Sailing Superior" by Yvonne Pearson
"Temperance 2020" by Susan Perala-Dewy
"Stockton Island," "Apostle Fall" by Kenneth Pobo
"The Big Sing," "Yooper Rockhounds" by Mary Riley
"Lake Superior Poem #3" by George Roberts
"Welder" by Mary Kay Rummel
"Fishing" by Yvonne Rutford
"An Unrefined Northern Metaphor," "Morning" by Ellie Schoenfeld
"Mining Country" by Steven Sher
"Some Distance Off-shore" by Phillip Sterling
"Lake Superior Beachcombing" by Amy Jo Swing
"Lake Superior-A Love Song from the Lake" by Sara Thomsen
"A Random Gust from the North" by Connie Wanek
"Cartography," "metis" by Laurelyn Witt
"Making the Lake My North" by Morgan Grace Willow
"Night Swim Lake Superior" by Patricia Zontelli
"Solstice," "At the Koitto Boarding House, 1947" by Angela Ahlgren
"Ologothrophic" by James Armstrong
"Windbound with Dostoevsky" by Milton J. Bates
"Counterpoint" by Samuel Black
"Slippage," "Eloquence of Earth" by Kimberly Blaeser
"After Sailing," "Dance at Dawn" by Gary Boelhower
"The North (After Borges)" by Jeffrey D. Boldt
"Gichigami" by Dan Campion
"Angling for Whitefish" by Taina Maki Chalal
"The Ice is Coming in like an Animal to the Shore" by Sharon Chmielarz
"Sailing in the Moon's Wake," "After Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach" by David R. Clowers
"In Dreams" by Carolyn Colburn
"Across the Border" by Deborah Cooper
"After All of My Life" by Florence Dacey
"Superior at the Shoreline: February," "Levitating Toward Duluth" by Norita Dittberner-Jax
"Water Colors," "Wishing for Lake Superior" by Deborah H. Doolittle
"Freights Slide By" by Barbara Draper
"Manidoo Giizhikens: Little Spirit Cedar Tree," "Gitche Inigaming, Grand Portage" by Heid E. Erdrich
"Wooded Road, Lake Superior" by Michelle Bonczek Evory
"Lake Superior Spring," "The Work of Water" by Terry Falsani
"Crossing the Continental Divide" by Lynda M. Ferguson
"Voyager" by Phil Fitzpatrick
"Lake Drought" by Magrot Fortunato Galt
"Northwestern Ontario" by Julie Gard
"Watermark" by Jane George
"Crossing Over" by Candace Ginsberg
"The Great Lake" by Linda Glaser
"Night Sky" by Tom Hansen
"Messages" by Gwen Hart
"After Forty-three Years" by Mara Hart
"Gooseberry Falls, Lake Superior" by Susan Carol Hauser
"Lake Superior" by Susan Hawkinson
"I Tell the Lake a Story," "There is work to do within nothingness" by Eva Hooker
"Into All Things We Enter" by Ann Iverson
"Speaking to the Elders" by Janet Jerve
"Hawk Ridge" by Jim Johnson
"To Begin Again" by Meridel Kahl
"In Concert, the Fluency" by Maggie Kazel
"Spirit Little Cedar" by Susan Deborah King
"Late Ice" by Mary F. Lee
"Easter Dawn on Superior" by Cecilia Lieder
"Shovel Point" by Judy Lindberg
"Key Sequences Missing" by Micky McGilligan
"Lake Superior Poem" by Lisa McKhann
"Poet Laureate of Duluth" by Pamela Mittlefehldt
"Sailing Superior" by Yvonne Pearson
"Temperance 2020" by Susan Perala-Dewy
"Stockton Island," "Apostle Fall" by Kenneth Pobo
"The Big Sing," "Yooper Rockhounds" by Mary Riley
"Lake Superior Poem #3" by George Roberts
"Welder" by Mary Kay Rummel
"Fishing" by Yvonne Rutford
"An Unrefined Northern Metaphor," "Morning" by Ellie Schoenfeld
"Mining Country" by Steven Sher
"Some Distance Off-shore" by Phillip Sterling
"Lake Superior Beachcombing" by Amy Jo Swing
"Lake Superior-A Love Song from the Lake" by Sara Thomsen
"A Random Gust from the North" by Connie Wanek
"Cartography," "metis" by Laurelyn Witt
"Making the Lake My North" by Morgan Grace Willow
"Night Swim Lake Superior" by Patricia Zontelli