After by Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield, After, poems: Profoundly moving, After is an extended investigation into mutability and incarnation, desire and loss, and our intimate connection with others. (HarperCollins)
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Visit Me in California by Cooley Windsor
Maura Stanton recommends Visit Me in California, by Cooley Windsor: “Cooley Windsor’s brief stories (or are these poems?) are wildly imaginative and wildly funny. This is an unforgetable, orginal book that will make you laugh and think and gasp and hand the book to someone else shouting ‘Read This!!’” (TriQuarterly/Northwestern)
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Immortal Sofa by Maura Stanton
Maura Stanton, Immortal Sofa, poems: In poems both humorous and elegaic, Maura Stanton gathers strange facts, odd events, and overlooked stories to construct her own vision of immortality. (Illinois)
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Some Fun by Antonya Nelson
Antonya Nelson, Some Fun, stories: The seven stories and novella in this witty, taut, and provocative collection prove to be a timely inventory of the state of family in America. (Scribner)
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Midnights by Jane Miller
C. D. Wright recommends Midnights, by Jane Miller: “An absorbing performance of art taken to the brink. There is nothing prosaic about Midnights. No one is simply cooking carrots; rather all of its parts contribute to a gestalt of living, loving and losing in a reel of feeling that nonetheless attains a bracing lucidity. This…
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Save the Last Dance by Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern, Save the Last Dance, poems: Stern’s latest is an intimate, yet always universal and surprising, book that’s rich with humor and insight. (Norton)
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Eastern Mountain Time by Joyce Peseroff
Joyce Peseroff, Eastern Mountain Time, poems: In her piercing fifth collection, Peseroff propels the reader from the pastoral to the tragic with bravura inventions of language. (Carnegie Mellon)
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The Half-Known World by Robert Boswell
Robert Boswell, The Half-Known World, essays: In this sparkling collection of essays, Boswell brings his keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers, while simultaneously moving beyond the classroom, candidly sharing experiences that have shaped his own writing life. (Graywolf)
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Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff, Our Story Begins, new and selected stories: The ten spare, elegant new stories, collected with twenty-one stories from Wolff’s three previous collections, offer moments of realization, along with an expert use of irony and empathy to explore facets of contemporary life. (Knopf)