Joyce Peseroff recommends An Ark of Sorts, poems by Celia Gilbert: “A powerful, beautifully written book with a compelling subject. In this delicately shaped series of poems, a mother recalls the passage of a year after the death of a child. An apartment in Paris is first a place of exile, then a place of…
Philip Levine recommends Overtime, poems by Joseph Millar: “If you want the real news of how America lives, of what it’s like to be here with us, Joseph Millar is your poet. What are the folks like at Ed’s Auto Repair ‘that dim cool mine / smelling of gas and iron’ or what’s it like…
Chase Twichell recommends Where I Stopped: Remembering Rape at Thirteen, a memoir by Martha Ramsey (Putnam): “This is a remarkably lucid, emotionally gutsy book. Its language is quiet, never sensational, yet Ramsey manages to peel back the layers of memory with real power.”
James Alan McPherson recommends Who’s Irish? by Gish Jen: “Very funny stories about domesticity.” (Knopf)
M. L. Rosenthal recommends Winter Channels, poems by James Schevill (Floating Island): “A rare collection of brief lyric pieces, full of gentle feeling, humane wisdom, and sharp political and social thrusts, by one of America’s most serious-and seriously neglected-poets.”
Andre Dubus recommends Women in Their Beds, stories by Gina Berriault: “For decades Gina Berriault has been a hidden treasure. Now we have thirty-five of her stories in one book. Buy it, and don’t lend it to anyone. Her work keeps going out of print.” (Counterpoint)
DeWitt Henry recommends ZYZZYVA: The Corporate Autobiography (Fall/ Winter 2000 issue) by Howard Junker: “The autobiography of Junker as a studied original, and the creation of his literary magazine, ZYZZYVA, as a kind of performance art-at once his chosen business in the world, and his imaginative fulfillment in spite of the world. There is the…
Don Lee recommends Zip Six, a first novel by Jack Gantos: “Dark, energetic, and sometimes surprisingly comic, Gantos’s novel charts a young drug smuggler’s course through prison.” (Bridge Works)
Jane Hirshfield recommends fine, poems by Stefanie Marlis: ” fine consists for the most part of brief ‘definitions’-poems that slip from actual definition into etymology into image, association, story, pondering. These elliptical prose poems liberate the relationship between the poet’s life and imagination in surprising, precise ways, like tiny explosive charges set down in…
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