THE MOMMY MYTH

The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels Free Press ($26) by Sarah Buttenwieser What do

EMANCIPATING PRAGMATISM

Michael Magee University of Alabama Press ($27.50) by Jefferson Hanson Emancipating Pragmatism focuses most specifically on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph W. Ellison, Frank O'Hara, and Amiri

I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR

The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews Thirty-Seven Conversations with the Pop Master Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith Carroll & Graf ($17) by Christopher Luna Could Andy Warhol

WAR AND PEACE

Edited by Leslie Scalapino O Books ($14) by Michael Cross This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the

WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?

Kim Addonizio W. W. Norton & Company ($21.95) by Mike Chasar Despite all of the drugs, booze, and sex in Kim Addonizio's fourth book of

DOG ISLAND AND OTHER FLORIDA POEMS

Laurence Donovan Pineapple Press ($12.95) by Robert Zaller For most people, the connection between Florida and poetry begins and ends with Wallace Stevens's "The Idea

ALASKAPHRENIA

Christine Hume New Issues Poetry & Prose ($14) by Sun Yung Shin The thesis of Alaskaphrenia, Christine Hume's second volume of poetry, is cleverly captured in

THE UNSUBSCRIBER

Bill Knott Farrar, Straus and Giroux ($20) by Cindra Halm The surprise is that Bill Knott's poetry still surprises. After ten previous "official" volumes and

HAZE: Essays, Poems, Prose

Mark Wallace Edge Books ($12) by Karl Kraus Haze, a collection of variations on poetics by Mark Wallace, takes its title from a semi-deconstructionist conceit