DeWitt Henry recommends Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm, by David Hamilton: “In an experimental ‘memoir’ that extends from the personal to the regional to the historic and geographical with an epic sweep comparable to Thoreau’s in Walden and William Carlos Williams’s in Paterson, New Jersey, Hamilton considers the legacies of injustice in…
Fanny Howe recommends Veil, poems by Rae Armantrout: “A selection of Armantrout’s poems from the past twenty years that were published by small presses. Irony, paranoia, passion, written with precision and glitter. A jewel.” (Wesleyan)
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…
Maxine Kumin recommends When the Fighting Is All Over, a memoir by Katie Letcher Lyle: “Katie Letcher remet her father, a Marine Corps World War II hero, when she was eight years old. He had been gone for more than four years, and neither of them was the same when he returned. Her memoir is…
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…
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