The Way-Back Room(1st Edition) A Memoir of a Detroit Childhood (Working Lives Series) by MaryMinock Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 2011 by Bottom Dog Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933964-49-2, ISBN: 1-933964-49-9
"Don't let the title fool you. Mary Minock's new book certainly evokes 1950's Detroit. Her father works for Cadillac, smells of "cigarettes and steel," and dies young of a brain tumor. The old neighborhood on Clark Street is working class, first and second generation immigrant families, transplanted Southern folk, all mostly white, mostly Catholic, but starting to lean more and more Protestant. Teenage Mary walks across the Ambassador Br ..."
"A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present. Do poets' surroundings shape their viewpoint and work? Abandon Automobile seeks to address this question by bringing together the work of more than one hundred of Detroit's most acclaimed and accessible poets. Writing about location as if it were a living entity, these poets visualize Detroit as a variety of complex archetypes - the city becomes a savior, a beast ..."
Love in the Upstairs Flat by MaryMinock Paperback, 83 Pages, Published 1995 by Edwin Mellen Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-2729-7, ISBN: 0-7734-2729-5
"This colletion of verse is a celebration of memory and of witness. It allows the reader to explore their own personal and cultural origins as the poet works through hers."
A Time When You Know a House Poems of Detroit by Minock, Mary Trade Paperback, 138 Pages, Published 2020 by Kelsay Books ISBN-13: 978-1-952326-71-4, ISBN: 1-952326-71-0
"A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present. Do poets' surroundings shape their viewpoint and work? Abandon Automobile seeks to address this question by bringing together the work of more than one hundred of Detroit's most acclaimed and accessible poets. Writing about location as if it were a living entity, these poets visualize Detroit as a variety of complex archetypes - the city becomes a savior, a beast ..."