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Poems that take a poignant look at societal issues and contemporary American topics, such as working-class life and twenty-first century war. In I Want to Be Once, M. L. Liebler approaches current events with a journalistic eye and a poet's response. Part autobiographical, part commentary, the lines of Liebler's poems come hard-hitting, but not without moments of great tenderness and humanity. Ordered into three sections, I Want To Be Once provides readers with a look into the author's personal life, as well as our collective history as a nation vis-a-vis the American media. The first section, called "American Life," captures the experience of coming of age in working-class 1960s America and...
Poetry. Includes a CD with Liebler and the Magic Poetry Band. "These poems byM.L. Liebler fall into righteous extremes--from prayers and meditations to diatribes and paeans, all grounded in the solid savvy of all-American working-class roots. Always accessible and ever soulful"--Wanda Coleman.
Acclaimed and well known Detroit poet and literary activist, M. L. Liebler BENEATH MY AMERICAN FACE is his first new poetry book since his award winning book I Want to Be Once (2016). The poems provide an ample proof that the poet is full of powerful imagination and profound feelings. The style in all these poems is quite simple devoid of any artificial vocabulary. Poetry.
Poets, rock stars, filmmakers, activists, novelists, and historians lend their voices to this landmark collection about the daily grind.
Product Description: A new collection from Detroit poet M.L. Liebler, a unique voice in contemporary poetry. Calm, thoughtful voice, unified collection finding the depths of things in his travels and in his daily life.
Stripping The Adult Century Bare is an anthology of Liebler's new and older verse, focusing on the impact of the 1960s on his life.
Heaven Was Detroit is a comprehensive collection of essays on the long history of Detroit music by some of America's best-known music writers.
A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present.