Madeline DeFrees recommends Facing the Facts, poems by Laurie Blauner: “Laurie Blauner’s fourth collection includes fifty-seven poems, ranging from largely tranquil domestic scenes to the stark contrast of the final section, in which she explores the characters and situations of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s horror tale seems eerily relevant to the marvels and terrors of twenty-first-century…
The Caprices Short stories by Sabina Murray. Mariner Books, $13.00 paper. Reviewed by Debra Spark. The Caprices, Sabina Murray’s ambitious debut collection of stories, largely concerns the lives of men and women in the Far East in the early forties, which is to say, those who were affected by World War II, either by being…
George Garrett recommends Sallies, poems by R.H.W. Dillard: “Dillard’s latest and sixth collection of poems-rich and wise.” (LSU)
Russell Banks recommends Senseless, a novel by Stona Fitch: “A scary, smart moral fable for the post-9/11 U.S. reality, it’s short and not at all sweet.” (Soho)
David Gullette recommends Misery Prefigured, poems by J. Allyn Rosser: “The voice in Rosser’s second book is sassy and self-assured: ‘To say screw them, to be screw-them / bent on one thing all but lost, / one music or mystery, / beyond all the necessary / incidental snaggings of the heart.’ In ‘Prell’ a man…
George Garrett recommends Forever Remembered, interviews edited by Irv Broughton: “This is a wonderful gathering of interviews with World War II combat pilots. Broughton, a poet and filmmaker, is every bit as good as Studs Terkel in eliciting the stories and memories of these old guys.” (Eastern Washington)
DeWitt Henry recommends Ladies of the Borobudur, stories by Barbara Haines Howett: “Although Howett’s stories portray a variety of characters, the primary focus is on corporate wives in Indonesia and their troubled awareness of social injustice and of the richness of cultural differences. Howett explores and evokes astonishingly different points of view, and her post-colonial…
DeWitt Henry recommends Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm, by David Hamilton: “In an experimental ‘memoir’ that extends from the personal to the regional to the historic and geographical with an epic sweep comparable to Thoreau’s in Walden and William Carlos Williams’s in Paterson, New Jersey, Hamilton considers the legacies of injustice in…
Maxine Kumin recommends When Men Were the Only Models We Had, a memoir by Carolyn G. Heilbrun: “A study of the influences of Clifton Fadiman, Lionel Trilling, and Jacques Barzun on Heilbrun’s own literary development, but the book is far broader than that-really, a history of Columbia University in the turmoil of the sixties and…
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