TALES OF BEATNIK GLORY

Ed Sanders Thunder's Mouth Press ($21.95) by Brenda Coultas The Wild Women of East Tenth taught me a valuable lesson that carried me all the

INVISIBLE SISTER

Jeffrey Ethan Lee Many Mountains Moving Press ($11.95) by Marj Hahne Invisible Sister, Jeffrey Ethan Lee's first full-length collection of poems, is a daring act

INSTRUMENTALITY

Ravi Shankar Cherry Grove Collections ($16) by Neil Kozlowicz In "Fabricating Astrology," the second poem in Ravi Shankar's Instrumentality, he writes that the firmament "seems

EVERYTHING IS BURNING

Gerald Stern W.W. Norton & Company ($23.95) by Maureen Picard Robins Disquieting, rattling, and turbulent verse fills the pages of Gerald Stern's latest book. Everything is

GOEST

Cole Swensen Alice James Books ($13.95) by Erik Anderson The structure of Cole Swensen's latest, Goest, functions much like a single page: the book's three sections—entitled,

LOOKING FOR ALASKA

John Green Dutton Books ($15.99) by Cindra Halm James Kirkwood's Good Times, Bad Times, first published in 1968 and now tragically out of print, set the