Dan Wakefield recommends Dreamtime Alice, a memoir by Mandy Sayer: “A compelling memoir of a young woman tap-dancer who works with her musician father on streets corners of New York and New Orleans. A fine work of the memoir genre.” (Ballantine)
Joyce Peseroff recommends Germany, poems by Caroline Finkelstein (Carnegie Mellon): “When a Jewish woman chooses Germany as the title for her book of poems, she is telling you something about language and history. Caroline Finkelstein writes with radiance about an implacable world where ‘. . . the yews move, / . . . the ragged…
Like Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Eleanor Ross Taylor is a poet who records in startling detail the mind's passionate and peculiar motion, now supple, now crablike; capable of memory's precise image or its blur. Days Going/Days Coming Back collects new work together with poems from three earlier volumes, and should bring focus and attention…
Robert Pinsky recommends Each in a Place Apart, poems by James McMichael (Univ. of Chicago): “An extraordinary book-length poem or sequence about love and failed love; absolutely original formally, yet clear and plain.”
GHOST LETTERS Poems by Richard McCann. Alice James Books, $9.95 paper. Reviewed by Rafael Campo. A dear patient of mine, a poet himself, who died not too long ago from complications of AIDS, once explained to me why he spent so much of his precious time and energy writing. “My poems are in a sense…
Maxine Kuminrecommends Dead Men’s Praise, poems by Jacqueline Osherow: “A stunning collection. Many of these poems come out of Hebrew Psalms, improbable as that sounds, and are often wonderfully humorous and down to earth.” (Grove/Atlantic)
Mark Dotyrecommends Ejo, poems by Derick Burleson: “This remarkable book chronicles two years in Rwanda, just before that nation’s social and moral collapse. Formally adept, attentive to the dangerous edges of language, Burelson’s first book is astonishingly coherent, fierce, and smart.” (Wisconsin)
In poem after poem in Giacometti's Dog, Robin Becker's third book, there is a courage in the piercing details that keeps the work from flinching from feeling and avoids even a trace of self-indulgence. These poems, generous in their emotional and geographical range, speak in Becker's voice about loss, guilt, erotic yearning, and the journey…
Mary Gordon recommends Defiance, a novel by Carole Maso: “A wholly original, darkly brilliant, and poetic novel about a mathematician who murders her students.” (Dutton)
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