As a high-school sophomore some forty years ago, I waded into Dave Etter's first book, Go Read the River. It opened up a world mostly unknown to the New-Jersey-native likes of me: the contemporary sm
Poetry. James P. Lenfestey has been engaged with the writings of the Cold Mountain Poet, Han-shan, for many years. The poems in this collection are a result of that study and a visit made to the Goodh
Poetry. "I remember, thirtysome years ago, when Dacey first published a couple of poems in traditional forms, thinking, 'Phil, Phil, what are you doing?' That's how out of fashion the old forms had fa
Fiction. Another genre-stretching book from Sid Gershgoren, and one you could be paging through for years to come! We think there never has been a book quite like it. Albert Goldbarth describes it thi
Poetry. These poems--of small town Minnesota, its backroads, its beauty, its loneliness, and its pain--are many-voiced, producing a rich and polyphonic texture, that is by turns irreverent, political,