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New in June: I Am Not Sidney Poitier and The Looking House
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By Kathleen Jamie “This fierce, blanched singing verse is exquisitely gathered by a fine ear: here is a poet who knows how to break her lines, how to warm her syntax, how to repeat and exhort, how to tilt and dangle.” —James Wood, London Review of Books |
By Stephen Burt “Each of the four sections of this book is punctuated by Burt’s brilliant version of a poem by Callimachus. Burt thereby casts an eerie light on the American life that fills the rest of his book, as the poems move from the endless deferral of adolescence (‘we will know who we are once we have won’) to the plenitude and deprivations that sustain adulthood. This is a masterly book by one of the most gifted poets of his generation.” —Frank Bidart |
By R. A. Sasaki "Nine loosely tales weave the experiences of three generations of Japanese Americans in San Francisco into a subtle, appealing tapestry." —Publishers Weekly |
By Askold Melnyczuk "The House of Widows is a dazzling novel, rich with fascinating characters, whose search for love and truth carries them from country to country, uncovering terrible secrets, and in the course of their journey revealing much about the history of the last half-century.”—Howard Zinn |
By Natasha Trethewey "Inspired by Bellocq's Storyville portraits, Natasha Trethewey brings to art a young 'octoroon', in 1912, gallant, dignified, undefeated in her aspirations, yet barely able to breathe trapped and objectified in the world of a New Orleans brothel. Hers—theirs—is a stunning accomplishment." —Gail Mazur |