Waterborne Poems by Linda Gregerson. Houghton Mifflin, $23.00 cloth. Reviewed by H. L. Hix. “Eyes Like Leeks,” the first poem in Linda Gregerson’s new collection, Waterborne, distills in a parenthesis the problematic that pervades the poems: “(how / odd / to be this and no other and, like all / / the others, marked for…
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…
Hubbard is an assured storyteller and a complex narrative stylist. Her collection of stories is unified in theme — pent-up characters desiring changes that may prove creative or destructive, but which offer release and relief, and which vivify what has been known as "life." The title story provides a key image: "Without thinking she ran…
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…
We Live in Bodies Poems by Ellen Doré Watson. Alice James Books, $9.95 paper. Reviewed by Marcus Cafagña. Ellen Doré Watson writes a poetry of elegy. The poems in her first book, We Live in Bodies, seek consolation for all the losses that diminish the human body, the loss of life, the trauma of violence,…
The Art of Loss Poems by Myrna Stone. Michigan State, $17.95 paper. Reviewed by David Daniel. In her first book, with considerable grace and fine, lovely detail, Stone evokes her family’s world and the larger world around it, while telling stories of our perpetual waste and repair. Any book about loss, of course, must also…
Here's a bright new voice in American poetry, woven out of the rich stories and intangible photos of a past lost in other countries — Jamaica, Canada, England — but still alive in the body of a young girl growing up in the Bronx. These flawless poems evoke a world where a mother can simultaneously…
A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga Stories by Julia Whitty. Mariner Books, $12.00 paper. Reviewed by Jessica Treadway. By all accounts, Julia Whitty is a human being, one who makes documentary films about animals under the sea. But reading her debut collection, A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga, you might begin to wonder…
Those who have read the poems that Philip Levine has produced in his thirty years of writing know that perhaps no other living poet has earned so fully the right to tell us "what work is." The various "grease-jobs," as he calls them, held in his native Detroit in his earlier days have provided him…
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