Day Moon Poems by Jon Anderson. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Press, $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper. Reviewed by David Rivard. Day Moon, Jon Anderson’s canny and refreshing new book, is his first since publishing The Milky Way in 1983. In the intervening years, he seems to have undergone a poetic makeover on the order of a head…
Whirling Round the Sun Poems by Suzanne Noguere. Midmarch Arts Press, $12.00 paper. Reviewed by H. L. Hix. The title poem of Suzanne Noguere’s Whirling Round the Sun transforms a bus ride through a city in autumn into an epiphany, in which “leaf / by leaf turning” serves as “a clue / to earth’s revolution.”…
Sherman Alexie recommends One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race, nonfiction by Scott L. Malcomson: “This book inspired me and pissed me off. I threw it across the room in anger a few times because I disagreed so strongly with Malcomson; I also shook my head with wonder when he was so right….
James Alan McPherson recommends Who’s Irish? by Gish Jen: “Very funny stories about domesticity.” (Knopf)
Rosellen Brown recommends Inspired Sleep, a novel by Robert Cohen: “This novel, more gently than DeLillo’s White Noise, and with a wicked wit, takes an appalled look at Americans’ current work-weary, sleep-deprived, multitasking-unsatisfactory-lives and shows why it’s no wonder so many reach for the anodyne of pills. Sympathetic to some and hell on others, this…
Wild Ride Essays by Bia Lowe. HarperCollins, $20.00 cloth. Reviewed by Bonnie Friedman. Bia Lowe’s lovely first book, Wild Ride, uniquely combines nature essays with personal narrative. Each piece — composed of succulent, sweet prose — is a thought pagoda, ideas storied one atop another, from sneezes to alfalfa to sexual betrayal to Halley’s comet…
Madeline DeFrees recommends I Want This World, poems by Margaret Szumowsky: “Margaret Szumowsky’s poems embody a global consciousness. In her first full-length collection, she reveals a lively energy, a sharp eye for the triumphs and the foibles of the human condition, and a wide-ranging empathy. These are poems the reader will return to again and…
Chase Twichell recommends Vortex of Indian Fevers, poems by Adrian C. Louis (TriQuarterly): “More passionate, funny, dead-serious poems from one of the most overlooked poets in America.”
Professor Laura Coltelli of the University of Pisa has devoted many years to the oral and written literature, and the varied culture, of American Indians. She now brings us a revealing volume of interviews with eleven contemporary Indian writers. Six are women: Paula Gunn Allen, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Wendy Rose, and Leslie…
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