A Fine Canopy: Poems
Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University
Alison Swan’s first full-length collection of poems is available now.
“Thank all the muses that these beautiful poems by Alison Swan arrive to help us take notice of our own fragility and that of our world. Not oblivious to sorrow, far from it, but so raptly involved in all that constitutes the ground beneath our feet and the canopy above us as to give us heart. This book is truly restorative reading.” – Linda Gregerson, Prodigal: New and Selected Poems
“These poems thrive beneath a canopy of nuanced connections with crows, stars, leaves, lakes, a lover, a daughter, and most potently, a self. Swan offers us poems of faith and resilience that arise from her deep sustained perception of a natural world where ‘everything gives back light.'” – Diane Seuss, author of Four-Legged Girl and Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
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Before the Snow Moon
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Alice Greene & Company
Available in a limited, signed, fine-arts edition.
“Alison Swan makes the landscape come alive, illuminating the human within.” – Dan Gerber, author of Sailing through Cassiopeia
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Dog Heart
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Alice Greene & Company
“The poems are so brave and luminous and rich and care about what we need to care about and draw us back to such.” – Jack Ridl, author of Losing Season
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Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes
East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press
2007 Michigan Notable Book
“Unusual and unusually beautiful.” – Donna Seaman, host of Chicago’s Open Books Radio
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The Saugatuck Dunes : Artists Respond to a Freshwater Landscape
Saugatuck, Michigan: Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance
118 full-color pages of inspiration from 41 artists and 3 essayists
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Porch Swing
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Bloodroot Press
Limited edition, fine art book and letterpress broadside
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Selected Anthologies
Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Editor Ron Riekki, Foreword by Alison Swan
East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press
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Michigan: Our Land, Our Water, Our Heritage, Editor John Knott
Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Nature Conservancy/The University of Michigan Press
118 full-color pages of inspiration from 9 essayists, including Alison Swan, and 8 photographers