Peter Gizzi Burning Deck ($10) by Ruth Andrews Something must be moving at incredible speed. With pure speed I address you, reality. —Peter Gizzi, "Tous

Harry Martinson Story Line Press Translated by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjoberg by Alan DeNiro Poetry in the science fiction genre is almost uniformly putrid—as

C. D. Wright Copper Canyon Press ($14) by Mark Nowak “If I were not here; and I am alien; a bodyless eye; this would never

Forrest Gander New Directions Press ($12.95) by Peter Gurnis Take a look at Sally's Mann's haunting photograph on the cover: the surface of water full

Doug Rice Cyber-Psychos AOD ($5) by Emily Streight With his last book, a delicious obscenity called Blood of Mugwump: A Tiresian Tale of Incest, Doug Rice

Barbara Hodgson Chronicle Books ($22.95) by Rachel Pollack The Sensualist fulfills its title first and foremost in the physical book itself—beautiful to look at and to

Ken Kalfus Washington Square Press ($16) by Christopher M. Worth Ken Kalfus brings together in this collection a stunning variety of places, times and characters,

Manlio ArguetaTranslated by Edward Waters Hood Curbstone Press ($14.95) by Susan Swartwout The logistics of conducting a wartime love affair are seldom more orchestratable or

Alison Bechdel Firebrand Books ($10.95) by Pat Carlin Everybody's favorite dykes are back, and better than ever. For years now the savvy cartoonist Alison Bechdel

Robert Christgau Harvard University Press ($29.95) by Brian Beatty These days, everybody fancies himself a critic. The dangerous among the legion subscribe to the "rock