Jane Hirshfield recommends Ripe, poems by Roy Jacobstein: "Roy Jacobstein’s Ripe, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize, is a book of balance, precision, vision, courage, and wit. Each poem feels solidly present in what it knows, each poem is fragrant with lived life—just as its title implies, here is a poet come into his ripeness."…
George Garrett recommends A Word in Your Ear, poems by Monroe Spears: “The late Monroe Spears (1916-1998) was one of the major critics and editors (The Sewanee Review) of our time. That he also wrote first-rate poetry was sometimes overlooked. As Daniel Hoffman has written about this volume: ‘Those who know Monroe Spears through his…
DeWitt Henry recommends A Tragic Honesty, a biography by Blake Bailey: “Richard Yates comes fully alive as an artist and as a man in this meticulously researched, judicious, and critically perceptive biography. Blake Bailey has done for Yates what Carlos Baker did for Hemingway, allowing Yates himself to speak from letters, archives, reported conversations, and…
Philip Levine recommends Fire, poems by Wesley McNair: “Is there any poet around who can catch the singular qualities of American voices better than Wesley McNair? If so, I haven’t found her. In this, his fifth book of poetry-and for me his most beautiful and moving-he reunites a dismal collection of people (what we call…
C. D. Wright recommends Alphabet, poetry by Inger Christensen: “A brilliant abecedary by Danish writer Inger Christensen which sets forth our feckless pressure on the earth’s futurity in a comely ancient form.” (New Directions)
David Daniel recommends World’s Tallest Disaster, poems by Cate Marvin: “With World’s Tallest Disaster, Cate Marvin makes the most spectacular debut in recent memory. Brimming with vitality, wit, and imagination, it will likely stand as a benchmark for and inspiration to a generation of younger poets. This is a wonderful book.” (Sarabande)
Robert Boswell recommends Leaving Disneyland, a novel by Alexander Parsons: ” Leaving Disneyland is a powerful and wide-ranging story of betrayal, violence, and regret. The book is brutally honest, unsparing, and written with amazing authority. The piercing sadness of Doc Kane is so beautifully rendered that the reader comes to see it as something more-a…
Madeline DeFrees recommends Facing the Facts, poems by Laurie Blauner: “Laurie Blauner’s fourth collection includes fifty-seven poems, ranging from largely tranquil domestic scenes to the stark contrast of the final section, in which she explores the characters and situations of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s horror tale seems eerily relevant to the marvels and terrors of twenty-first-century…
George Garrett recommends Sallies, poems by R.H.W. Dillard: “Dillard’s latest and sixth collection of poems-rich and wise.” (LSU)
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