Don Lee recommends Watermark, poetry and prose edited by Barbara Tran, Monique T. D. Truong, and Luu Truong Khoi: “A fascinating and surprising collection by a new generation of Vietnamese American writers, delving into identity and displacement with energy and grace.” (Temple)
Philip Levine recommends Feeding the Fire, poems by Jeffrey Harrison: "It’s thrilling to read an entire book of poems written with such pleasure and gusto. Harrison writes with remarkable confidence about a range of ordinary things—salt, rowing a boat, discarded books, a stinking pond—and he gets more out of his subjects than seems possible. How…
Philip Levine recommends What We Carry, poems by Dorianne Laux (BOA Editions): “Gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today.”
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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