Madison Smartt Bell, Master of the Crossroads, a novel: The second installment of Bell’s trilogy about the slave revolt on Haiti, this mesmerizing and masterful volume focuses on the military leader and liberator Toussaint Louverture. (Pantheon)
Yusef Komunyakaa, Talking Dirty to the Gods, poems: A stunning cycle of four-quatrain poems that explores, with virtuosity and splendor, the mythological underpinnings of sex, sin, and violence, and their relationships to the natural world. (FSG)
Richard Tillinghast, Six Mile Mountain, poems: Clearly influenced by the Irish tradition, the enchanting poems in Tillinghast’s seventh full-length collection are rooted in landscape, and explore love, travel, chaos, and betrayal. (Story Line)
Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love, a novel: An instant classic, Baxter’s third novel is a sensual and luminous reimagination of Midsummer Night’s Dream in Ann Arbor, Michigan-a gradually darkening comedy, powered by a dozen voices speaking to a somewhat shadowy figure named Charlie Baxter. (Pantheon)
Russell Banks, The Angel on the Roof, stories: A magnificent, generous collection of thirty-one stories, many of them set in hardscrabble New Hampshire, eloquently probing the lives of parents and children, husbands and wives. (HarperCollins)
Rosellen Brown, Half a Heart, a novel: Miriam Starobin is living in upper-middle-class Houston when she is reunited with her eighteen-year-old daughter-the fruit of an affair with a black professor in Mississippi when Miriam was a civil rights activist. A searing, provocative novel about race, identity, and ideals. (FSG)
Stratis Haviaras, Millennial Afterlives: A Retrospective, prose poems: A gorgeous limited-edition collection of poetic missives, each dedicated to a friend, that lyrically reflects on the passage of time. (Wells College)
Fanny Howe, Selected Poems: Sixteen evocative poems that are driven by metaphysical, religious, and ontological quests. Moving from Boston to Ireland, these poems show Howe at her musical and intellectual peak. (California)
Maxine Kumin, Always Beginning: On a Life in Poetry, essays: The Pulitzer Prize winner engagingly describes the marriage of her lives as writer, farmer, mother, wife, and comrade, including a moving remembrance of her friendship with Anne Sexton. (Copper Canyon) Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of Recovery, nonfiction: Kumin, a lifelong equestrian,…
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