Jane Shore recommends Heroin, poems by Charlie Smith: “A brilliant book by a poet whose work I have recently discovered. The ease and yet surprise of the language and the passion are compelling. Where have I been for his other four books?” (Norton)
Chase Twichell recommends Vortex of Indian Fevers, poems by Adrian C. Louis (TriQuarterly): “More passionate, funny, dead-serious poems from one of the most overlooked poets in America.”
Ellen Bryant Voigt recommends Changeable Thunder, poems by David Baker: “David Baker’s sixth book combines a flexible syllabic line, a highly idiomatic voice, and a wide range of reference in meditative poems of great intelligence and feeling.” (Arkansas)
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)
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