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This is an anthology of favored pieces from seven books and one chapbook spread out from 1989 to 2003. Mostly poetry, with some tiny stories, they cover the ground of ending small-press journal submissions after a decade and doing my own books. Travels between St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, in Minnesota, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Northwestern Wisconsin make up the exterior map, and a marriage, divorce, other live-in relationships, lots of strange jobs and the freedom of finally getting it right out in the country make up the interior map. Quite an ego stroke, being able to pick your high points and assemble them between the covers of one book, so stroke it, I did. I don't believe I've ever written a better batch of poems than these, and if you are a post-modern poetry fan, like the un-rhymed universe and your poetry close to the blood and bone (funny one included), this is the one for you.

A compilation of three books of poetry and prose from 1991-1994. Free verse, sex/love/absurdity/satire/social criticism/nature/politics/experimental.

A modern cowboy struggles to keep his land as environmentalists and an evil businessman try to keep him from ranching on the land he loves.

Five blistering stories waist-deep in satire and packed with absurdity, graphic behavior, vulgar behemoths, off-world unpleasantness, questionable sex, disguises, off-brand liquor and double-anti heroes. Sci fi, detectives, revenge, various types of love and a heroine in the form of a sentient can of wax beans. What else do you require?

Ruth Peterson Baker was a voluminous chronicler of her life and times with a restless mind interested in everything the world had to offer her. Beginning in 1922 at age fourteen and continuing until just days before her death at age 89, she wrote numerous journals and mountains of letters where she pours out her passion for the grand and the minuscule. Politics, religion, philosophy, literature, music, child rearing and farming were a few of her interests. Ruth was also an artist whose medium was primarily watercolor but also oil, graphite, charcoal, and pen and ink. Fortunately for us, Ruth also had a sense of humor. These are Ruth's words; nothing was added or changed except for clarification.

Absurd, humorous, vulgar and illuminating, the strange tales in this book, bubbling underground for a decade and finally forced into the light, are the products of two native Minnesota writers bent on destruction of the normal. These six stories and one mini-epic poem will introduce you to: feuding bootleggers with altruistic hootch, gangstas disguised as farmhands, a dubious cop and a fashion designer hunting down a kidnapped banker with a taste for dark pleasures, a fiendish Surgeon General and his despicable exploits, grand theft dental in outer space, crooks, boxers, brothels, bottomless pits and a traveling group of entertainers serving up salacious pantomimes. Altogether, just what you've been seeking but were afraid to ask for. The Sleeping Mannequin Inn stories require an adult, but fairly twisted mind on the part of the reader and an affordable donation to the authors and publisher, a small price to pay for happiness in a often-contemptuous world. Buy all means, dig in.

Contract Law: Cases and Materials presents a selection of well-chosen cases and illuminating commentary ideal for introducing students to the study of contract law in Australia. Developed to accompany Stewart, Swain and Fairweather's Contract Law: Principles and Context, this casebook maintains the accessibility of the principles text while providing the depth and analysis of topics required to learn contract law. Following the structure of the principles text, this text explores areas not traditionally covered in other casebooks, such as resolving disputes, preparing to make a contract, preliminary agreements, and interpreting contracts. Each chapter also briefly explores contracts in international contexts. Containing well-chosen, carefully curated cases and extracts, Contract Law: Cases and Materials takes a practical approach to student learning and integrates rich pedagogy to build critical thinking and analysis skills, making it an invaluable resource for contract law students.