Dan Wakefield recommends In the Family Way, a novel by Lynne Sharon Schwartz: ” In the Family Way is a witty, loving, totally credible novel of the way a typically atypical family lives now. Another fine novel by the author of that small masterpiece, Leaving Brooklyn.” (Morrow)
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…
Joyce Peseroff recommends Girl Hurt, a first book of poems by E. J. Miller-Laino: ” Girl Hurt records a woman’s journey from the underworld of shame and hurt, where Mother cries ‘like Frankenstein in the movie, / those deep, guttural half-words . . . / of monsters created with human hearts,’ to the light of…
George Garrett recommends Graveyard of the Atlantic, stories by Alyson Hagy: “Alyson Hagy’s third collection of stories and her best so far. Praised by Charles Baxter and Jill McCorkle, among others, these seven stories all concern life on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.” (Graywolf)
Russell Banksrecommends Harbor Lights, a novel by Theodore Weesner: “Ted Weesner, over the years since his powerful first novel, The Car Thief, has come numerous times to the rescue of American realism in fiction, and he’s done it again with Harbor Lights, a tough-minded and compassionate portrait of a good man struggling against odds not…
Maxine Kuminrecommends Dead Men’s Praise, poems by Jacqueline Osherow: “A stunning collection. Many of these poems come out of Hebrew Psalms, improbable as that sounds, and are often wonderfully humorous and down to earth.” (Grove/Atlantic)
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