Joyce Peseroff recommends History of Hurricanes, poems by Teresa Cader: "Cader’s third book examines the mind, heart and soul of contemporary life through domestic speculations, historical wonder, and a response to the natural world that’s both lyrical and visceral. Her sharp observations on the precariousness of what we possess—knowledge, love, and joy—enrich the reader’s…
Don Leerecommends A Gesture Life, a novel by Chang-rae Lee: “This novel — a magnificent follow-up to Lee’s first book, Native Speaker — has received a fair amount of media attention already, but enough cannot be said about it. Lyrical, powerful, truly remarkable.” (Riverhead)
Robert Boswell recommends A Gram of Mars, a first collection by Becky Hagenston: “Becky Hagenston writes with grace, conviction, and wit. The complex stories in this collection circle about the central question in our lives-coming to terms with our past, coming to terms with the present. The stories have the stuff of real life and…
Gary Soto recommends A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen, poems by Martín Espada: “Martín Espada is a courageous poet who champions with grace the working class, the disheveled, the outcast, the ignored, and the imprisoned-all without sentiment. He gets better with every collection.” (Norton)
Madeline DeFrees recommends Adam Chooses, poems by Michael Spence: “These spare, understated poems have the elegant design and the formal ease we’ve come to expect of Michael Spence’s work. The stance is reminiscent of James Wright’s Green Wall poems in their escape from ‘that vacant Paradise’ to the celebration of the here and now.” (Rose…
James Alan McPherson recommends All the Money in the World, a novel by Robert Anthony Siegel: “A heartfelt first novel by a gifted former student.” (Random)
Lloyd Schwartz recommends All-American Girl, poems by Robin Becker: “Unsparing and self-knowing, Robin Becker uses irony (as in her double- and triple-edged title) as if it were a form of directness. Painful, often devastating poems contend with crushing loss, the convolutions of sexuality and family politics, the struggle to accept the self. Yet they also…
David St. John also recommends For a Limited Time Only, by Ronald Wallace: “With his signature humor and elegant wit, Ron Wallace makes clear that the ‘limited time’ of the title is our own mortal passage. This is a death-inflected collection, filled with meditations upon illness that refuse to buckle in the face of the…
Maura Stanton recommends Visit Me in California, by Cooley Windsor: “Cooley Windsor’s brief stories (or are these poems?) are wildly imaginative and wildly funny. This is an unforgetable, orginal book that will make you laugh and think and gasp and hand the book to someone else shouting ‘Read This!!’” (TriQuarterly/Northwestern)
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