Joyce Peseroff recommends The Waters of Forgetting, a poetry collection by Barry Seiler (Univ. of Akron): “Seiler brings together poems that spring from the tensions between memory and forgetting, past and present, the daily and the eternal. He connects public moments with personal history in lyrics that are bittersweet and fresh.”
Marilyn Hacker recommends The Woman Behind You, poems by Julie Fay: “Julie Fay’s The Woman Behind You is at once a superb manifestation of the contemporary possibilities of lyric poetry and a sustained and gripping narrative of a late-twentieth-century woman’s life, exemplary in its specificities, picaresque in the geographic and erotic vicissitudes of its quest….
Justin Kaplan recommends The Edge of Marriage, debut stories by Hester Kaplan: “Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award and praised by The New York Times Book Review for the work’s ‘graceful, accomplished prose’ and by The Boston Globe for the portrayal of ‘articulate adults, fully aware at every moment of the agony they are…
Thomas Lux recommends The Forgiveness Parade, poems by Jeffrey McDaniel: “A terrifying, hilarious, and utterly alive second book by a young poet still in his early thirties. Read this book. If you get a chance to hear him read/perform, don’t miss it: he can do it on the stage and on the page.” (Manic D)
Charles Baxter recommends Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, a biography by Charles Nicholl: “An eerie, brilliant, and weirdly comic story about a poet who gradually became a real-life Joseph Conrad character.” (Chicago)
George Garrett recommends The Hatbox Baby, a novel by Carrie Brown: “Carrie Brown’s third novel is set in the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933 and concerns the ‘Infantorium’-an exhibit of live premature babies.” (Algonquin)
George Garrettrecommends Someone to Watch Over Me, stories by Richard Bausch: “Twelve new stories by one of the most gifted short fiction writers alive and writing.” (HarperCollins)
Thomas Lux recommends Spare Change, poems by Kevin Pilkington: “Tough, quirky, lucid poems by a poet unafraid of being understood.” (La Jolla Poets)
Thomas Lux recommends Squandering, poems by George Mills: “Gorgeous, utterly original poems by a poet now in his mid-seventies. Exceptionally beautiful production-a limited letterpress edition. His first book was The House Sails Out of Sight of Home, winner of the 1991 Morse Poetry Prize, from Northeastern University Press.” (Indian Hill)
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