Editor's Corner

Philip Levine: The Simple Truth (Knopf), a collection of new poems, of which Harold Bloom says, “I wonder if any American poet since Walt Whitman himself has written elegies this consistently magnificent.”

Tim O’Brien: In the Lake of the Woods (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence), a novel about a Minnesota politician who searches for his missing wife and confronts long-suppressed memories of My Lai.

Charles Simic: The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs (Univ. of Michigan), a collection of memoirs, essays, and journal entries that illuminate the origins of Simic’s poetry.

The City Below, James Carroll’s ninth novel, which chronicles two brothers in Boston during the Kennedy years.

Running to Paradise: Yeats’s Poetic Art, M. L. Rosenthal’s provocative readings of Yeats’s lyric poetry and poetic drama.

The Angel of History, Carolyn Forché’s full-length poem-a meditation on how memory survives the unimaginable horrors of history.

Winter Numbers and Selected Poems 1965-1990, poems by Marilyn Hacker (W.W. Norton, forthcoming in Oct.)

Women, Animals, and Vegetables, essays and stories by Maxine Kumin (W.W. Norton)

Split Horizon, poems by Thomas Lux (Houghton Mifflin)