Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire Carole Maso Counterpoint ($25) by Brian Evenson For Carole Maso, prose writing is elastic and multiform, and

C. K. Williams Farrar, Straus & Giroux ($21) by Elaine Margolin Whether we admit it or not, we all rehearse our parent's death. We think

Selected Texts edited by Richard Kostelanetz Cooper Square Press ($17.95) by Ramez Qureshi One evening I heard some modern music: Scriabin, Stravinsky. I also had

Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc Gustaf Sobin University of California Press ($31.95) by Robert Baker In Luminous Debris, expatriate American poet and novelist Gustaf

Mary Rising Higgins Potes & Poets Press ($13) by Patrick F. Durgin "If the world no longer consists of places, has it become larger because

Molly Tenenbaum Van West & Company ($14) by Tim Scannell In this first collection of thirty-two poems, Molly Tenenbaum illustrates the mastery of poetic eye

Robert Pinsky Farrar Straus & Giroux ($21) by Piotr Gwiazda Robert Pinsky's sixth poetry collection is not a disappointment to his readers. The book contains

Paul Vangelisti Littoral Books ($11.95) by Kim Fortier An alphabet's letters describe a phonetic system, symbolizing the very process of constructing speech through sound. Vowels

Ursula K. LeGuin Harcourt Brace ($24) by Alan DeNiro Early in her new novel The Telling, Ursula LeGuin writes about a fundamentalist monoculture trying to squash

Armistead Maupin HarperCollins ($26) by Brad Jacobson People exist in your life who once were considered the very best of friends. For one reason or