Upper Peninsula literature has traditionally been suppressed or minimized in Michigan anthologies and Michigan literature as a whole. Even the Upper Peninsula itself has been omitted from maps, creating a people and a place that have become in many ways “ungeographic.” These people and this place are strongly made up of traditionally marginalized groups such as the working class, the rural poor, and Native Americans, which adds even more insult to the exclusion and forced oppressive silence. And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917–2017, gives voice to Upper Peninsula writers, ensuring that they are included in Michigan’s rich literary history. Ambitiously, And Here includes great U.P. writing from every decade spanning from the 1910s to the 2010s, starting with Lew R. Sarett’s (a.k.a. Lone Caribou) “The Blue Duck: A Chippewa Medicine Dance” and ending with Margaret Noodin’s “Babejianjisemigad” and Sally Brunk’s “KBIC.” Taken as a whole, the anthology forcefully insists on the geographic and literary inclusion of the U.P.—on both the map and the page.
ContentsForeword by Thomas Lynch1917–1957Lew R. Sarett | “The Blue Duck: A Chippewa Medicine Dance” excerpt (1918)William Jones | Now Great-Lynx (1919)Lew R. Sarett/Lone Caribou | Beat Against Me No Longer (1919)William Paris Potter | The Electric Giant (1920)Lew R. Sarett/Lone Caribou | “The Box of God” excerpt (1921)Ernest Hemingway | Up in Michigan (1921)Janet Lewis | Anishinabeg in the Cranberry Swamp (1922)Janet Lewis | The Wife of Manibozho Sings (1922)Janet Lewis | The Indians in the Woods (1922)Janet Lewis | The Old Woman Alone (1922)Ernest Hemingway | Along with Youth (1923)Ernest Hemingway | Chapter Heading (1923)Mildred Walker | Fireweed excerpt (1934)Iola Fuller | The Loon Feather excerpt (1940)Lorine Niedecker | [Let’s play a game] (1950)1957–2001Robert Traver | Laughing Whitefish excerpt (1965)Jim Harrison | Northern Michigan (1965)Gordon Lightfoot | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (1976)Judith Minty | “Yellow Dog Journal—Spring” excerpt (1979)Judith Minty | “Yellow Dog Journal—Fall” excerpt (1979)Jane Piirto | The Company (1980)Jane Piirto | Pasty (1983)Sue Harrison | Mother Earth Father Sky excerpt (1984)John Woods | Under the Lidless Eye (1984)Carol R. Hackenbruch | Lunar Eclipse (1988)Phil Legler | Eggs (1988)Stephen Tudor | De Tour Village (1988)Jim Daniels | Soo Locks (1990)Jim Northrup | “American Americans” excerpt (1991)Jack Driscoll | The Wilderness State (1991)Jonathan Johnson | Renewal (1994)Phillip Sterling | North of Paradise (1995)William Olsen | Paradise, Michigan (1996)Elinor Benedict | A Daughter-in-Law Watches the Old Man Hesitate (1997)Michael Delp | What My Father Told Me (1997)Kenneth Pobo | Suspension Bridge (1997)Steve Hamilton | A Cold Day in Paradise excerpt (1997)Laura Kasischke | The World’s Largest Living Thing (1998)Karl Iagnemma | On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction (2000)M. L. Liebler | On the Scrap (2000)2001–2017Tom Bissell | Death Defier (2002)Ander Monson | Vacationland (2003)Austin Hummell | God’s Early Church (2004)L. E. Kimball | Nothing He Can Put a Finger On (2004)Cynie Cory | Iceberg (2004)Cynie Cory | The Smell of Snow (2004)Ingrid Hill | Ursula, Under excerpt (2004)Jillena Rose | Water Mission (2006)Keith Taylor | Upper Peninsula Fires (2007)Gordon Henry | Jazz Tune for a Hiawatha Woman (2007)Jeff Vande Zande | Disappearances (2007)Russell Thorburn | Rent (2008)Kathleen M. Heideman | Come Sunday, the dog of his thoughts will bury something unspeakable in your muddy garden (2008)Eric Torgersen | I Will Die in Lake Superior (2009)Julie Brooks Barbour | Watching (2010)Cameron Witbeck | Cripple (2010)April E. Lindala | To Dance Is to Pray (2011)Russell Brakefield | Lake Surfing at Whitefish Point (2011)Shirley Brozzo | Goin’ for Commods (2011)Ron Riekki | Dominos (2011)Eric Gadzinski | Waboos (2011)M. Bartley Seigel | Beach Glass (2011)Jennifer Yeatts | Self-Portrait as Blizzard (2012)Corey Marks | And Winter (2012)Hannah Baker-Siroty | Beekeeper outside Escanaba, Michigan (2012)John Smolens | Possession(s) (2013)Justin Machnik | Marquette (2013)Lisa Fay Coutley | Researchers Find Mice Pass on Trauma to Subsequent Generations (2013)Ron Riekki | Arm (2014)Alex Vartan Gubbins | When the Lake Lost Its Sound (2014)Ander Monson | Elf Incantation (2015)Margaret Noodin | Miskwiyiwigiizhig Gichigamigong / Red Sky over Superior (2015)Bonnie Jo Campbell | Down (2016)Rosalie Sanara Petrouske | Before Leaving (2017)Saara Myrene Raappana | Epithalamion, Anxiety Disorder (2017)Timston Johnston | Natural Phenomena (2017)Emily Van Kley | bitches (2017)Margaret Noodin | Babejianjisemigad (2017)Sally Brunk | “KBIC” excerpt (2017)AcknowledgmentsPermissionsContributors
