George Garrett recommends Naming the Afternoon, poems by Julia Johnson: “An outstanding first collection of fifty poems, highly praised by Kelly Cherry: ‘Julia Johnson is inventive and eccentric, a new voice speaking from a fresh perspective.’ Johnson was given a New Writing Award for poetry by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.” (LSU)
Marilyn Hacker recommends Forms of Gone, poems by Yerra Sugarman: ” Forms of Gone is a powerful first book by a poet mature in experience and worldview, whose strength is drawn at once from a unique perspective and a multilayered engagement with the counterpoint of syntax and poetic measure. Sugarman is the daughter of Shoah…
Philip Levine recommends Season of the Body, essays by Brenda Miller: “Personal essays that explore the relationships between the self and the other, the other being the creator, the world, the social order, the clan, the beloved, and more intimately the reader, the body, the soul. The writing is graceful and rich but never ornate…
Mark Strand recommends Flame Tree, poems by Kevin Hart: “For me, Kevin Hart is the best Australian poet of the past twenty-five years. Elegant, deeply philosophical, and utterly without pomposity.” (Paper Bark)
Dan Wakefield recommends My Misspent Youth, essays by Meghan Daum: “A first book of Didion-like essays on contemporary life, with wit and insight and graceful prose.” (Open City)
George Garrett recommends The Land Between, a novel by Cathryn Hankla: “Hankla’s second novel (and her ninth title) is coming out almost simultaneously with her latest book of poems, Poems for the Pardoned, from LSU. She writes as well as anybody alive about the earth and the environment. It’s a well-plotted, strong story, alive with…
Frank Bidart recommends Notes from the Divided Country, poems by Suji Kwock Kim: "This is a brilliant, unerasable book, one of the most remarkable debuts I’ve ever read. It begins with the descent of the soul into flesh, which is also the descent into the catastrophic, tormenting history of family and nation. The poems as…
George Garrett recommends Do I Owe You Something, a memoir by Michael Mewshaw: “Novelist and nonfiction writer Mewshaw here offers a focused memoir concerning writers he has known well over many years. At the still point where memory and gossip become history, he gives us candid and surprising portraits of giants and pygmies of the…
Jane Hirshfield recommends Ripe, poems by Roy Jacobstein: "Roy Jacobstein’s Ripe, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize, is a book of balance, precision, vision, courage, and wit. Each poem feels solidly present in what it knows, each poem is fragrant with lived life—just as its title implies, here is a poet come into his ripeness."…
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