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Donald Hall, Willow Temple, stories: There are twelve stories here—five from The Ideal Bakery and six collected for the first time, as well as one new tale—and the volume attests to Hall’s mastery as a storyteller, the prose lyrical and elegiac as he movingly unfolds each character’s frailties. (Houghton Mifflin)
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…
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Shadow of Heaven, poems: Philip Levine submits: “Once again in her poetry, Voigt plumbs the stubbornness of the human spirit and the mysteries of the world in which it lives and dies. Although she surrenders none of her gift for storytelling, this new work is her most lyrical, and as always her…
Madeline DeFrees recommends A Girl from Zanzibar, a novel by Roger King: “London-born novelist Roger King, an immigrant to the U.S. with extensive experience on four continents, writes an absorbing tale of international intrigue in our increasingly globalized world. As an agricultural economist, largely in African countries, King worked for various United Nations agencies during…
Sue Miller, The Story of My Father, a memoir: In her first nonfiction book, Miller recounts the last few years of her father’s life as he succumbed to Alzheimer’s. Riveting, compassionate, and loving, the book not only brings her father to life, but also illuminates Miller’s own roles as daughter and writer. (Knopf)
Leaving Saturn Poems by Major Jackson. University of Georgia Press, $15.95 paper. Reviewed by Afaa M. Weaver. Major Jackson’s first collection, Leaving Saturn, is named for Sun Ra, the jazz composer and bandleader who claimed he had acquired his otherworldly gifts and powers on Saturn, where he’d been born. Invoking Sun Ra, you face all…
George Garrett recommends Naming the Afternoon, poems by Julia Johnson: “An outstanding first collection of fifty poems, highly praised by Kelly Cherry: ‘Julia Johnson is inventive and eccentric, a new voice speaking from a fresh perspective.’ Johnson was given a New Writing Award for poetry by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.” (LSU)
Charles Simic, The Voice at 3:00 A.M., poems: A selection of work from the past twenty years, along with some twenty new poems, this book gives us a remarkable survey of Simic’s singular poetic journey, which has been marked by his sardonic humor and moral lucidity. (Harcourt)
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