Ellen Bryant Voigt: Kyrie, a mosaic of sonnets that conjures up the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, which killed half a million people in the U.S. Voigt first focuses on a family and then branches out to separate voices. (Norton)
Dan Wakefield: Expect a Miracle, a nonfiction book that examines the everyday miracles Wakefield himself has experienced, interleaved with accounts of extraordinary events in the lives of his friends and acquaintances. (HarperCollins San Francisco)
Russell Banks: Rule of the Bone (HarperCollins, May 1995) , a novel about a homeless, drug-addicted teenager living on the edge of society.
Gail Mazur: The Common (Univ. of Chicago), her third collection of poems, of which Lloyd Schwartz comments: ” ‘Dislocated’ in Houston, New Englander Gail Mazur writes that she’s determined to look at her new surroundings ‘with the wise tough eye of exile.’ She succeeds-partly because, like so many of our very best poets, she is…
Sue Miller: The Distinguished Guest (HarperCollins),a novel about a couple who must care for the husband’s mother, an acclaimed author-a situation that forces them all to reconcile with the past.
Gerald Stern: Odd Mercy (W.W. Norton, July 1995), a new book of poetry, including a 56-page poem called “Hot Dog” about a street woman in New York’s East Village.
Maura Stanton: Life Among the Trolls (David R. Godine), a poetry collection that explores themes of love and hate.
Richard Tillinghast: The Stonecutter’s Hand (Godine), a collection of poems that extols the virtues and pleasures of travel.
Tobias Wolff: In Pharoah’s Army: Memories of the Lost War (Knopf), a memoir of Wolff’s Vietnam years.
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