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Non-fiction novel: The New Bedford Samurai and the Fool Birds of Japan. Twilight Times Books, forthcoming, 2007.
Memoir: No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Police procedural: Missing Members. Detroit: Corridors Press, 1990.
Scholarly study: The Symbolic Method of Coleridge, Baudelaire, and Yeats. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983.
Penguins in a Warming World. Princeton, NJ: Ragged Sky Press, 2007.
Through the Straits, At Large. Detroit, MI: Ridgeway Press, 1997.
The Evidence of Spring. Detroit, MI: Ridgeway Press, 1989.
Arts at an Exhibition, music and poetry compact disk in collaboration with composer Christian Kreipke and poets Carol Carpenter and Suzanne Scarfone, 2003 Artists Among Us Juried Projects, sponsored by the Wayne County Council of Arts, History and Humanities (four of my poems: “Flight,” “End Passage,” “No Forest and No Trees,” “Quake”)
The Poetry Harmonium, music and poetry compact disk collaboration with composer Christian Kreipke and poets Carol Carpenter and Suzanne Scarfone, Summer, 2004.
“Sea Finds.” Short Story 7 (1999). 102-111.
“Thick Plots.” www.pitt.edu/~nidus, April, 2002.
“The Save,” Full Circle Journal 2, December, 2002.
“Bitch and a Rat,” Branches Quarterly 3, 1 (January 2004)
“Windowcases,” Frigg ( www.friggmagazine.com) 7 (Winter, 2005).
“Frailty, Thy Name,” Ducts (www.ducts.org (Winter, 2006)
“Traveling Solo,” Poetic Diversity (www.poeticdiversity.com), 4, 1 (Winter, 2006)
“The Ball Game,” Flashing in the Gutters (http://tribe.textdriven.com/flash), Winter, 2006.
“The Invisible Daughter,” The Rambler 3, #3 (May/June, 2006).
“Nightsong,” Saranac Review 2 (Fall 2006).
“How It Began,” “Preserving Medium,” from The New Bedford Samurai, Full Circle Journal 5 (Summer, 2003).
“Where All The Lights Were Bright.” Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs by Michigan Writers. Ed. Michael Steinberg. E. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2000. 246-255.
“Re-Becoming,” “Only Not Rain,” “Sea Birds Continue to Wash Up on Oregon Coast,” Hotmetalpress, hotmetalpress.net, December, 2006.
“Dream Lover,” Velvet Avalance Poetry Anthology, ed. Donna Hill (Toronto: Ontario, Dec,. 2006).
“Hesitation,” Morpo Review (http://morpo.com/index.php?c=display&vol=12&iss=1&disp=437), November, 2006.
“Quake,” “Hidden Solstice,” “Slow, Slow Dance,” Triplopia, www.triplopia.com (Fall, 2005)/
“All Live Creation,” “Sans Soliloquy,” Dispatch (www.litdispatch.net, Winter, 2006).
“Surface Tension,” “No Stopping Now,” Porcupine 7, 2 (2005).
“The Grammar of Error,” Paterson Literary Review 34 (Winter, 2005).
“Dog Training,” “Heaven and Nature,” RiverSedge 17, 2 (February, 2005).
“Optical Functions,” Poetic Diversity (poeticdiversity.org), 3,1 (February, 2005).
“Slivers Of Time: Thoughts Twining Around a 2800-year-old Phoenician Vessel Found Off the Coast of Israel, June, 1999,” Stirring, http://www.sundress.net/stirring (October 2004).
“Fog Horn on the Detroit River,” Stirring, http://www.sundress.net/stirring (Sept. 2004).
“Replicas,” “Edging Closer,” “you are brave but in this one thing,” Perigee Magazine 2, 6 (www.perigee.com, Sept. 2004).
“The Andean Wild Boy,” Typo Magazine (http://www.typomag.com/issue04/index.html), Summer, 2004
“Old Wives’ Tales,” Tryst Magazine (www.tryst3.com) 10 (Dec. 2004).
“Whose Darker Rites,” Adagio Verse Quarterly, www.geocities.com/adagioversequarterly/Adagio_Verse_Quarterly.html 2, 1 (April, 2004).
“The Awful Holiness of Every Thing,” “Musée de l’Homme 1,” “Musée de l’Homme 2,” The Littoral (www.b-u-m.net/LittoralVerse1.html, Jan. 2004).
“Psyche Readings,” “Codes,” “Excellent Condition,” Avatar Review (www.avatarreview.com) 6 (Summer, 2004).
“Flight,” Branches Quarterly (www.branchesquarterly.com) 3, 1 (January 2004)
“Cut Flowers,” “Airborne,” www.terrain.org : A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments, 14 (Dec. 2003).
“Foreshadow,” Bathyspheric Review (www.montereybaypoetry.com) (fall, 2003).
“Pony for Your Thoughts,” www.libertyhillpoetry.org 2 (Spring, 2004).
“Cape Cod Log,” “A Quiet Afternoon,” “What Migrants Bring,” www.new-works.org 6, 1 (Jan. March, 2004)
“Night Vision,” “All at Once Seeds,” whimperbang.com, 2 (summer, 2003)
“Starlings,” “Seduction,” Visions International (2003).
“Natural History Museum,” Full Circle Journal 2 (fullcirclejrnl.com, Winter, 2003). Poem also selected as Best of Full Circle Journal, March, 2003.
“In the Bath Aisle,” www.ginbender.com 2, 1 (November, 2003).
“Detroit Institute of Arts,” Out of Line (2003).
“Ice Ferns,” Phantasmagoria 1, 2 (Winter 2002).
“March of Dimes, April in Detroit,” “Late Encounter,” Abandon Automobile: City Poetry Anthology, eds. Melba J. Boyd and M. L. Liebler. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001.
“For Fran Dick, Descendant of the She Wolf,” “Dark Spot on Scabiosa,” Words on Wire (http://woaw-poetry.org) (Summer, 2001).
“My Father Lives in America,” “The Name of the Currency Is Rain,” yuanyang 1 (2001).
“August Teetering,” Aries 8 (Summer, 2001).
“Harvest Moon,” “Sound Track,” “Museum Finds,” Red River Review (May, 2001).
“Adelaide Penguins in a Warming World,” www.pifmagazine.com (April, 2001).
“Taken Likeness,” Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts 1, 1 (Fall/Winter 2000).
“Lakeshore Drives,” Dialogue through Poetry 2001 Anthology. NY: Rattapallax P, 2001.
“Students Brought to Poetry,” White Pelican Review, 1, 2 (Fall, 2000); rpt. P.O.E.T.S. Newsletter 2, 12 (Feb, 2001).
“Light Sleepers,” “Midwest, Autumn Storm,” Porcupine 7, 2 (Summer 2001).
“Not Quite Spring,” Evansville Review 9 (1999).
“Sleeping Beauty Revisited,” Yemassee 8, 1 (Summer/Fall, 2000).
“Kingdom-Phylum Erotics,” Natural Bridge 3 (Spring, 2000). .
“Persephone Explains,” The Madison Review 21, 1 (Fall, 1999).
“Finch Speaks from Fallow Fields,” “Perpetuities of Elm,” Barrow Street (Summer, 2000).
“Lasting Summer,” Limestone: A Journal of Arts and Letters (1999).
“Essences,” “Heroes,” “Prairie in a Dry Season,” “What’s Left,” “Your Mouth,” Split Shift 2 (1999).
“Parting,” Artword Quarterly, 17 (Summer, 1999).
“Clear Skies,” The Larcom Review 2 (2000).
“Beach Tales,” “Flutter’s Last,” “Unfinished,” The Larcom Review 1 (1999).
“Diagnoses,” The Temple, 3, 2 (1999).
“Stray,” Poetry International 3 (1999, annual).
“Gift,” Green Hills Literary Lantern 10 (Spring 1999).
“Vanishing Act,” Astarte 12 (Fall 1999).
“Baseball,” Howling Dog 6, 2 (1998).
“Winter Scape,” The Higginsville Review 13 (Fall 1999).
“Local Customs,” Afterthoughts, 5, 3 (Fall/Winter, 1998-99).
“No Time,” Artword Quarterly 14 (Fall, 1998).
“Another Hour,” Apostrophe, 1:3-4 (1998).
“Real-Estate Transactions,” Driftwood Review, 2 (Winter, 1999).
“A Wish for My Daughter,” New Zoo Review 2 (October 1998).
“The Writer and Her Mother,” “Coffee in the Afternoon,” Room of One’s Own, 20:4 (1998).
“Jeanne’s Vial,” Evansville Review, 8 (1998).
“What Do Daffodils Want,” Defined Providence, 6 (1998).
“Comrades in Fear,” Lynx Eye, 4 (Fall, 1997).
“About Pansies,” Christian Science Monitor, December 12, 1997.
“Longitudes,” Driftwood Review, 1 (1997).
“The Daughter of Job,” Oregon East 28 (Fall, 1997).
“The Mother and the Police,” Rag Mag 2 (Spring, 1997).
“Last-Chance Afternoons,” Controlled Burn 3 (Winter 1997).
“Cause of Death,” “Masteries,” “Virtual Destiny,” Weber Review 13 (1996).
“Detroit Spring,” Yemassee 4 (Spring/Summer, 1996).
“No More than Glimpses,” California State Poetry Quarterly 22 (Spring/Summer, 1996).
“What Might Have Happened,” Interim 17 (Spring/Summer, 1996).
“Damage Control,” “My Kind of Town,” San Fernando Poetry Review 18, 2 (1996).
“August Voices,” “Matinée Cape Cod,” “Lasting Ivory,” Santa Barbara Review 3 (Fall-Winter, 1995).
“Black Looks,” Visions-International 47 (1995).
“Middle-Age Crisis,” Spoon River Poetry Review 19, 1 (Winter/Spring, 1994).
“Stop-Motion,” “Bird Watching,” Old Crow Review 2 (1993).
“A Ride with My Mother,” “The Rapist of Nine Women,” Resourceful Woman, (Detroit: Invisible Ink Press, 1994).
“Onions,” Heartlight Journal 10 (Summer, 1993).
“Bleached,” “Detached,” “Tonight,” Licking River Review 24 (Fall/Spring, 1992-93).
“First the Uterus,” “Even Song,” “Common Knowledge,” “Birding Once More,” Interim 12 (Spring/Summer, 1993).
“Life in the Country,” Cumberland Poetry Review 12 (Fall, 1992).
“Midwest, Summer Storm,” The Cream City 17 (Spring, 1993).
“The Boys I Grew Up With,” rpt. The Vision of Words (Detroit: Lorien Studio/Ridgeway Press), 1992.
“Sleeping Beauty,” Piedmont Literary Review 16, 1992.
“Colossal Dream,” Spoon River Quarterly 17, Winter-Spring, 1992.
“Comrades in Fear,” Against the Current 37, March, 1992.
“Bedtime Stories,” “A Time to Weep,” Interim 10, 1991-92.
“Sophrosyne,” River Styx 34, 1991.
“Cooking,” Wascana Review 25, 1990.
“In Summer,” “Independence Night,” “This Thing,” Embers 15 (Fall, 1990).
“Women’s Ways,” Whomanwarp 3 (Fall, 1990).
“Bridled Lust,” “Ginger,” Interim 9 (Spring-Summer, 1990).
“The Rapist of Nine Women as Good Citizen,” Earth’s Daughters 35 (1990).
“Hope,” “Uncovered Women,” Houses in Motion 1 (Spring, 1990).
“Rain Dance,” South Florida Poetry Review 7 (Winter, 1990).
“Airborne,” Phoebe 19 (Fall/Winter, 1989).
“The Boys I Grew Up With,” The Northern Review 3 (Fall/Winter, 1989).
“Bird Snobs,” Spirit 54 (Spring-Summer, 1989).
“Sifting through Ashes,” “Sex and War,” “Voodoo on Former Landlords,” “A Walk with My Mother,” Interim 8 (Spring, 1989).
“In Back Alleys,” “Reading Tuesday’s Paper,” Women’s International Day Chapbook, March, 1989.
“Moving Through,” 5 AM 2, 1 (1988).
“`Love’s Austere Offices,” South Florida Poetry Review 6 (Fall, 1988).
“May,” “Storm,” Blue Pitcher 3, 1 (1988).
“Running at the Mouth,” “Tree Tops,” Wascana Review 22 (Fall, 1987).
“Altering,” “A Change of Life,” “Inscape,” “Comforter Thoughts,” Rocky Mountains Arsenal of the Arts 2 (Jan.-Feb., 1988).
“Dénouement,” Seneca Review 17, 2 (1987).
“No Unicorns,” Moving Out 13 (Fall, 1987).
“The Deeps,” Z-Miscellaneous 1, 3 (1987).
“Nighttown—Detroit,” Slant, 1 (Summer, 1987).
“Stakes,” “After the Summer Solstice,” “Lesson,” “No Other Plot,” “Divestitures,” Interim, 6 (Spring, 1987).
“Animal Kingdom,” Quadra Project for the Arts, 1987.
“Eurydice Speaks,” “Fit,” and “The Break,” Interim, 5 (Spring, 1986).
“Gold" and “Winter Suspicion,” Quadra-Project for the Arts, 1986.
“Unweeded,” Wascana Review, 20 (Fall, 1985), 29-30.
“Mindfall,” DeKalb Literary Arts Journal, 13 (Fall, 1979-Winter, 1980).
“The Trapped Bird,” The Small Pond Magazine, 27 (Spring, 1980).
Alexandru Lazarescu: A Portrait in Seven Takes, seven-poem series, Corridors, 2 (1980).
“Campus One Night,” “Myths Crowding Greektown,” “The Catch,” “The Stamp,” Corridors, 1 (1979).
“Hood Ornaments, Detroit-Style,” Concerning Poetry, 12 (1979).
“Duration,” The Free Lance 19 (1978-9).
“Inevitability,” Best Friends, 6 (January, 1978).
“Sea Dreams,” Poet Lore, 70 (Winter, 1975).
“Celebration,” Wayne Review (Spring, 1968).
Ke-Nu and the Magic Coals, Michigan Opera Theatre, 1987. Performed at the Friends Auditorium and throughout Michigan in 1987 and 1988. Performed at the Hilberry Summer Theatre (Wayne State Graduate Theater), June-July, 1989. Workshop and performance by the Music School of Wayne State University, Dec., 1999.
“Pacific Harvests: Whales and Albatrosses in Nineteenth-Century Markets,” Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture. Eds. Deborah Denenholz Morse and Martin Danahay. Ashgate Press. Forthcoming.
“Staged Feminisms: Millennial Reflections,” Remapping the Humanities: Identity, Memory, Community, and (post)Modernity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, forthcoming.
“Free-Floating Marginals and Contagious Degeneracy in the Paris and London of the Mid and Late Nineteenth Century,” Lyrical Symbols and Narrative Transformations: Essays in Honor of Ralph Freedman. Eds. Kathleen Komar and Ross Shideler. Columbia, SC: Camden House Press, 1998. 115-131.
“Emotions Unpurged: Antigeneric Theater and the Politics of Violence,” Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature. Ed. Margaret R. Higonnet. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. 120-143.
“Staking No Claims for Territory: The Sea as Woman’s Space,” Reconfigured Spheres: Feminist Explorations of Literary Space. Eds. Margaret H. Higonnet and Joan Templeton. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. 72-88.
“Intercourse with Animals: Nature and Sadism during the Rise of the Industrial Revolution,” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Forthcoming.
“My First ACN (Art, Culture, Nature) Conference,” Watersheds: Art, Culture, Nature. Association for the Study of the Arts and the Environment. Autumn, 2005.
“Cultural Deposits: Tracking Capital in Nineteenth-Century European Fiction and Drama,” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 27, 1-2 (Mar./June 2000, pub. Winter 2002): 8-24 (lead article).
“Focalization, the Cinematic Gaze, and Romance in Meredith and Woolf,” Woolf Studies Annual, vol. 7 (2001): 3-22 (lead article).
“Seductive Certainties: Nana and Nascent Eugenic ‘Sciences,’” Excavatio 13 (2000—annual): 229-235 (22 pp. typescript).
“Venus Live! Sarah Bartmann, the Hottentot Venus, Re-Membered,” Mosaic (Hygieia: A Special Issue on Literature and Medicine) 33, 4 (December 2000): 129-143.
“Texted Selves: Dorothy and William Wordsworth in the Grasmere Journals,” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. Special Issue: Memoirs at the Fin de Siècle. Ed. Nancy K. Miller. 14, 1 (Summer, 1999): 118-136.
“Technology as Eros’ Dart: Cyborgs as Perfect (Male?) Lovers,” Foundation: The International Journal of Science Fiction 78 (Summer, 1998), 59-67.
“Colonization as Feminization in Meredith’s The Egoist and Diana of the Crossways,” Working Papers in Irish Studies, 98-4 (1998). 1-12.
“When Feminists Read the Romantics, or the Cultural Chasm of ‘Kubla Khan,’” Atlantis 1, 2 (1992). 81-91.
“Gender-Political Aesthetics and the Early and Later Yeats,” Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies 8 (1990). 113-125.
“At Sea or In Deep Water: Women’s Spaces in Persuasion, The Voyage Out, and The Awakening,” Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the ICLA: Space and Boundaries 3 (Iudicium, 1990), 180-186.
“Dialogic Combat in Yeats’s Oisin: The Shape of Things to Come,” Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies 4 (1989), 165-174.
“The `Woman’s Film’ Genre and a Modern Transmutation, Kramer vs. Kramer,” Women & Film, ed. Janet Todd (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1988), 114-129.
“Shelley’s Triumph of Death in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out,” Modern Language Quarterly 47 (Summer, 1986), 130-53.
“`Deep Romantic Chasm’: Women as Textual Disturbances in Romantic Poetry,” Power, Gender, Value, ed. Judith Genova. Edmonton, Canada: Academic Printing and Publishing, 1987. 31-40.
“The Perils of Authorship in Le voyageur sans bagage,” Modern Drama, 29 (December, 1986), 601-12.
“Authorizing History: Victimization in A Streetcar Named Desire,” Theatre Journal, 38 (October, 1986), 322-38; rpt. in Feminist Rereadings of Modern American Drama, ed. June Schlueter (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1989), 149-170.
“Love and the Two Discourses of Calvino’s Le Cosmicomiche,” Stanford Italian Review, 4 (Spring, l984), 123-35.
“Frankenstein’s Hidden Skeleton: The Psycho-Politics of Oppression,” Science-Fiction Studies, 10, no. 2 (July, 1983), 125-136 (lead article). Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism 92 (Gale P, 2001).
“Thematic Contexts of Yeats’s Theater,” Modern Drama, 24 (March, 1981), 67-72.
“Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mask of Reason in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” The Dalhousie Review, 60 (Autumn, 1980), 462-471.
“Ken Russell’s Clouds of Glory [film biographies of Wordsworth and Coleridge]: The Ruling Passion as Key to the Artist,” Literature/Film Quarterly, 8 (January, 1980), 2-13 (lead article).
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as Romantic Quest,” The Wordsworth Circle, 10 (Fall, 1979), 365-369.
“The Ritual of Midsummer: A Pattern for A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Renaissance Quarterly, 31 (1978), 21-28; rpt. in Bibliotheca Shakesperiana, Microfilms International, 1986.