Thieves’ Latin, poems by Peter Jay Shippy: This prize-winning first collection provides proof that, as Peter Jay Shippy writes, "writ happens"—and that sometimes it is wonderful "writ." With a gift for breathtakingly original language, he leads us through the vast orchard of his imagination, where we can pluck and taste its astonishing fruit. Thieves’ Latin,…
Jorie Graham, Never, poems: Graham undertakes a dazzling exploration of time in the twenty-seven lyrics of her ninth collection-time as it exists in nature, history, evolution, consciousness, human interaction, and belief. (Ecco)
Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel, poems: In his ninth collection, Muldoon works a rich vein that bridges the County Armagh of his youth with suburban New Jersey, where he now lives and teaches. Both whimsical and elegiac, these poems play with form and language with winning mastery. (FSG)
Built in a Day, a novel by Steven Rinehart: The hero of this ambitious and smart debut novel, following on the heels of the story collection Kick in the Head, is a deceptively dangerous thirty-something dropout who is not above sleeping with his dead wife’s dead son’s teenaged girlfriend. Ultimately, this relentlessly entertaining story demonstrates…
Alberto Ríos, The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body, poems: Ríos wryly carves poems from fable, parable, and family legend to examine the Nogales, Arizona, of his childhood-a literal and metaphorical border between the U.S. and Mexico. (Copper Canyon)
Tim O’Brien, July, July, a novel: O’Brien’s new book deftly centers on a July 2000 weekend when the Darton Hall College class of 1969 gathers for a reunion. The sharply drawn ensemble includes a Vietnam vet, a Republican trophy wife recovering from a mastectomy, and a mop manufacturer. (Houghton Mifflin)
George Garrett recommends Do I Owe You Something, a memoir by Michael Mewshaw: “Novelist and nonfiction writer Mewshaw here offers a focused memoir concerning writers he has known well over many years. At the still point where memory and gossip become history, he gives us candid and surprising portraits of giants and pygmies of the…
Elizabeth Spires, Now the Green Blade Rises, poems: Spires movingly meditates on the life-and-death matters of midlife-the separation of parent from child, the loss of family and friends, the evolving nature of our closest relationships. (Norton)
Discography, poems by Sean Singer (Yale): Selected by W. S. Merwin as winner of the 2001 Yale Series of Younger Poets, Sean Singer’s Discography is a singular, quirky, and, at times, astonishingly beautiful first book. While jazz provides the central subject matter and metaphor for the collection, Singer’s poems don’t spend much time in rooms…
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