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Madeline DeFrees recommends Intricate Moves, poems and an essay by Joan Swift: “One of the Northwest’s best poets collects her poems dealing with rape-both those originally included in The Dark Path of Our Names (Dragon Gate) and later poems. Swift is the winner of three NEA grants, the most recent being the only one awarded…
Maxine Kumin recommends Invisible Horses, poems by Patricia Goedicke: “These poems are about subjective and objective realities of the hidden impulses we live by-very powerful and innovative: ‘. . . wondering / what strings us together, self / and self-image, and the words for it . . .’ ” (Milkweed)
Gerald Stern recommends Ivory Cradle, poems by Anne Marie Macari: “Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, judged by Robert Creeley. Beautiful lyric poems, explosive, visionary. From an original viewpoint of a woman in her forties, with three young sons. Subjects are events in her life-divorce, mothering, ‘memory,’ often of Italy, and religion. Best first…
Mark Strand recommends Journey to the Land of the Flies, essays by Aldo Buzzi: “It is impossible to describe the homey exoticism of this book, its associative richness, its great intelligence manifested so casually, its wit, its imaginative scope, its revelations, its dilemmas, e.g., ‘I was reflecting on the menu, undecided between serpent soup, roast…
Maxine Kumin recommends Late Summer Break, fiction by Ann B. Knox (Papier-Mache): “A delightful series of interwoven short stories, mostly with female protagonists, set on the fringes of rural life, in which the author explores interaction between the generations in ways that touch all of us.”
Rosellen Brown recommends Lies of the Saints, stories by Erin McGraw: “These stories are wonderfully understated glimpses of believable lives, of men, women, and-in the title novella-children in uneasy embrace, trying for honesty and grace, and sometimes succeeding.” Reviewed in “Bookshelf” on page 239. (Chronicle)
James Alan McPherson recommends Life in Double Time: Confessions of an American Drummer, a memoir by Mike Lankford: “A very unpretentious account of the riff-style lifestyle of dedicated musicians. This is an excellent, humorous account of rock and roll.” (Chronicle)
Philip Levine recommends Lifelines, poems by Philip Booth: ” Lifelines is an astonishingly mature work of poetry that represents a life’s work of dedication. The poems trace an adult’s experience in the world from boyhood to old age, largely in the world of New England, and pay tribute to the toughness and decency of ordinary…
Gary Soto recommends Limbo, a novel by Dixie Salazar (White Pine): “Dixie Salazar is the Kaye Gibbons of Fresno, California. Wealth of detail, attitude, and a sorrowful story.”
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