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Margot Livesey recommends Broken Ground, a novel by Kai Maristed: “Maristed brilliantly depicts a woman’s search for her daughter and her past in Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The novel moves gracefully between past and present, personal and political, and is intelligent, absorbing, and suspenseful at every level.” (Shoemaker &…
Stuart Dybek, I Sailed with Magellan, a novel in stories: In eleven achingly beautiful tales, Dybek captures the sweet rhythm and humor of growing up on Chicago’s South Side through Perry Katzek, a young Polish American. (FSG)
Gerald Stern recommends Search Party, collected poems of William Matthews: “For my money, the new selected of Bill Matthews is a bit too thin considering his extraordinary vision and voice, but it is a magnificent book that the editors Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly have brought out. I think Matthews will take his place as…
Heather McHugh, Eyeshot, poems: With her usual bravura, McHugh gives us a brooding, visionary work that meditates on the big questions—love and death—while focusing on the senses as she tries to process the surrounding world. (Wesleyan)
Donald Hall, Breakfast Served Any Time All Day, essays: Hall collects forty years of writings on poetry into a luminous and essential volume about the sensuality of language, its pleasures and sounds. (Michigan)
Gary Soto, One Kind of Faith, poems: Soto once again displays dazzling range in his twenty-sixth book, exploring the wonders of the everyday in poems about Berkeley and Fresno, along with a nervy section of “film treatments for David Lynch.” (Chronicle)
Fanny Howe, The Wedding Dress, essays: In these richly evocative and provocative pieces, Howe meditates on imagination, motherhood, art-making, and bewilderment, challenging conventional systems of belief. (California)
Waiting for the Paraclete Poems by Lise Goett. Beacon, $15.00 paper. Reviewed by Susan Conley. Lise Goett’s first book is a lush investigation of a life that is never pedestrian and often wildly dramatic — each poetic image as if bejeweled in gorgeous language. Goett’s lyrical narratives ride violent, ever-changing currents of emotion. The entire…
George Garrett recommends The Land Between, a novel by Cathryn Hankla: “Hankla’s second novel (and her ninth title) is coming out almost simultaneously with her latest book of poems, Poems for the Pardoned, from LSU. She writes as well as anybody alive about the earth and the environment. It’s a well-plotted, strong story, alive with…
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