Editor's Corner

Maxine Kumin: Connecting the Dots. In her eleventh poetry collection, Kumin wisely and unforgettably expands on her favorite themes: the ties and losses of family and friends, and the natural world. (W.W. Norton)

Jane Shore: Music Minus One. Shore’s third collection of poetry movingly traces a woman’s life from childhood to coming-of-age to parenthood, the poems striking for their jazzy melancholy and intimacy. (Picador USA)

James Carroll: An American Requiem. A stirring, generational memoir about Carroll’s many lives as the son of an Air Force general, a priest, civil rights and antiwar activist, novelist, husband, and father. (Houghton Mifflin)

Donald Hall: The Old Life. An autobiography in verse by the venerable, witty, and always edifying poet and essayist. (Houghton Mifflin)

Robert Pinsky: The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996. This graceful, welcome collection gathers four of Pinsky’s books, as well as new works. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Christopher Tilghman: Mason’s Retreat. Tilghman’s arresting, much-anticipated first novel traces several generations of a family from its roots in England to a farm in Chesapeake Bay. (Random House)

Andre Dubus: Dancing After Hours, a new collection of thirteen stories, two of which were originally published in Ploughshares, from a short-fiction master-America’s resident Chekhov. (Knopf, Feb. 1996)

Bill Knott: The Quicken Tree, new work from a truly original and brilliant poet, whose language, ideas, and images always bedazzle. (BOA Editions)

Alan Williamson: Love and the Soul, a third collection of poems that eloquently addresses psychological and spiritual questions about love. (Univ. of Chicago)