Editor's Corner

Lorrie Goldensohn, American War Poetry, anthology: Covering five centuries, these fascinating poems edited by Goldensohn put into sharp relief America’s complex, conflicted, and evolving attitudes toward war. (Columbia)

Alice Hoffman, The Third Angel, a novel: Hoffman elegantly examines the lives of three women at different crossroads in their lives, tying their London-centered stories together in devastating retrospect. (Shaye Areheart)

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)

Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, poems: The speaker in this anticipated new volume of poems wonders: What is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? And how does one live in Ordinary Time-during those periods that are not apparently miraculous? (Norton)

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)

Don Lee, Wrack and Ruin, a novel: Lee’s second novel is an incisive satire about art and commerce, fame and ethnicity, nature and development, and two estranged brothers, Lyndon and Woody Song. (Norton)

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)

Margot Livesey, The House on Fortune Street, a novel: This absorbing novel opens multiple perspectives on the life of Dara MacLeod, a young London therapist, partly by paying subtle homage to literary figures and works. (Harper)

Alberto Ríos, The Theater of Night, poems: Set along the U.S.–Mexican border, Ríos’s poems charmingly follow the courtship and marriage of a couple as their lives sweetly weave into one. (Copper Canyon)