Editor's Corner

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.

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)