Jim Krusoe Dalkey Archive Press ($14.95) by Carrie Mercer Consider the poetry of internal organs: "the bloated, spongy butterflies of lungs, the shy parenthesis of

Josef Skvorecky Various translators Farrar, Straus and Giroux ($25) by Tricia Cornell A memoir would seem almost superfluous for a writer like Josef Skvorecky. Approaching 70,

Iztok Osojnik translated by Sonja Kravanja Modry Peter Publishers ($11.95) by Susan Smith Nash IIztok Osojnik, who lives and writes in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has published

Hank Lazer Lavender Ink Press ($14.95) by Cynthia Hogue Known for his acute criticism as well as exploratory poetry, Hank Lazer is a poet who

Floyd Skloot Bucknell University Press ($19.95) by Lynnell Edwards Floyd Skloot's third full-length collection of poetry reveals him again as a poet of strong narrative

Bin Ramke Iowa University Press ($16) by Dan Beachy-Quick Anaxagoras—a philosopher to whom poet Bin Ramke repeatedly returns—differed from his predecessors in one extremely important

Li-Young Lee Boa Editions ($12.95) by M. L. Schuldt “Our bodies look solid, but they aren't. We're like a fountain. A fountain of water looks

Geoffrey G. O'Brien University of California Press ($16.95) by Steve Healey A cloud of anonymity shrouds The Guns and Flags Project, the first book of

by Ryder W. Miller [Note: a version of this paper was presented at the John Steinbeck's Americas Centennial Conference at Hofstra University in March 2002.]

by Jon Carlson Jane Bowles was an American author of surpassing qualities, although her modest oeuvre remains well outside the consciousness of the general reading