Madeline DeFrees recommends Cain’s Daughters, poems by Phyllis Collier: “From the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to the labor camps of California, Collier follows the migration and celebrates the hard lives of pioneering women. Cain’s Daughters is a singular example of the way art transcends and transforms the world of fact.” (Blue Unicorn)
Ellen Bryant Voigt recommends In the Blue Pharmacy, essays by Marianne Boruch: “The same capacious mind on display in Boruch’s selected poems is everywhere available here, as is her characteristic meditative structure, one that circles its subjects and their implications without any sort of didactic overreaching. In ‘The Rage to Reorder,’ the last piece in…
Philip Levine recommends Nobody’s Baby, stories by Leo Litwak: “Leo Litwak, the author of the finest memoir of WWII combat I have read by an American, The Medic, again demonstrates his superb gift for narrative in this astonishing collection of short stories, Nobody’s Baby. His insights into the complex motives of human behavior and the…
Dan Wakefield recommends The Writing on the Wall, a novel by Lynn Sharon Schwartz: "The Writing on the Wall is a novel that mines art and understanding out of the 9/11 nightmare, bringing the effects of the tragedy into individual lives of credible characters. The author’s earlier masterwork, Disturbances in the Field, which follows the…
Margot Livesey recommends Tenney’s Landing, stories by Catherine Tudish: “I don’t know quite how Catherine Tudish does it, but somehow in this remarkable collection of linked stories she evokes the people and places of Tenney’s Landing so vividly and completely that every reader will surely want to take up residence in this small Pennsylvania river…
Mary Gordon, Pearl, a novel: In Gordon’s haunting new book, a woman reexamines her assumptions about politics and the church when she goes to Dublin to save her daughter, who is on a hunger strike. (Pantheon)
Al Young recommends White Lipstick, poems by Geri Digiorno: "With these pages—sparsely worded, richly lived—Geri Digiorno reminds us how entangled the delicate roots and tendrils of family and ‘individual’ identity can become. Her lovingly subjective subjects include kin and neighborhood, coming of age, friendship, betrayal, initiation, baptism, masquerade, transformation, sexual discovery and conquest, marriage and…
Marilyn Hacker, translation of Birds and Bison, poems by Claire Malroux: These are both urban and pastoral poems, marvelously observing the natural world, language, and the human spirit. (Sheep Meadow)
Ann Beattie, Follies, stories: In nine scintillating stories and a novella, Beattie—with her keen, morbid wit—looks at baby boomers, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives. (Scribner)
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