Editor's Corner

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)

Rita Dove: Mother Love, a series of poems that recasts the ancient Greek story of Demeter and Persephone, mainly in sonnets, exploring the cycle of betrayal and regeneration that is at the heart of the classic mother-daughter myth. (Norton)

Donald Hall: Principal Products of Portugal, a collection of essays that serves as a tribute to the arts, from sports and poetry to sculpture and trees. (Beacon)

Alberto Alvaro Ríos: Pig Cookies and Other Stories, thirteen interrelated tales of a small village in northern Mexico over the course of several decades earlier in this century. (Chronicle)