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…
Dangerous Men Stories by Geoffrey Becker. Univ. of Pittsburgh, $22.50 cloth. Reviewed by Fred Leebron. For fifteen years, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize has been awarded to a first book of stories by an enormously talented writer, and this year’s selection, Dangerous Men by Geoffrey Becker, is no exception. Marked by precise and evocative language…
Galway Kinnell surely possesses the most lyrical voice of his generation; perhaps only the last books of James Wright approached the intensity of music Kinnell builds from "the noise inside things," whether a factory whistle "in concert with the tenor of stomachs" of workmen, or the "slub clump slub clump" of a bricklayer's trowel ("The…
Like the ideally instructed poet, some novelists try to make the ordinary appear extraordinary; others try to make the extraordinary appear ordinary. It seems to me that Stratis Haviaras has, in this short novel, done both at once, an achievement so dazzling it defies the reader to analyze just what is going on. The main…
Where She Went Stories by Kate Walbert. Sarabande Books, $19.95 cloth. Reviewed by Don Lee. Kate Walbert’s first collection, Where She Went, gives us haunting portraits of two women — a mother and her daughter — both trapped by itinerancy. While Marion Clark, a bride of the fifties, finds nothing but ennui in her many…
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.”…
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…
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…
Winning the City by Theodore Weesner. Summit Books. $17.95 cloth. Winning the City is a fine novel, a crisply written story about a young boy's struggle to define himself. Dale Wheeler's position on the school basketball team is unjustly taken from him, and what Dale does in response gives the novel its drive and theme….
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