Booklist articles from April 2003

Booklist archives from April 2003

Allende, Isabel. My Invented Country: a Nostalgic Journey through Chile.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Tr. by Margaret Sayers Peden. May 2003. 224p. HarperCollins, $23.95 (0-06-054564-X). 863. Allende was inspired to write this glimmering and audacious memoir of her life as a traveler, exile, and immigrant by an eerie overlaying of dates....

Chang, Iris. The Chinese in America: a Narrative History.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 448p. index. Viking, $29.95 (0-670-03123-2). 304.82 Chang is the author of the best-selling Rape of Nanking (1997), a very disturbing but well-prepared and necessary account of the sacking of that important Chinese city by the...

Gould, Stephen Jay. The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap between Science and the Humanities.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 288p. illus. index. Harmony, $25.95 (0-609-60140-7). 303.48. Gould was an impassioned and brilliant scholar and evolutionary biologist, an original and philosophical thinker, and a consummate prose stylist who never hesitated to...

* Pepin, Jacques. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 320p. index. Houghton, $26 (0-618-19737-0). 641.5. In simple, light, unpretentious prose, chef and cooking teacher extraordinaire Pepin recounts his life in food and cooking. Born in a village near Lyon, he endured the privations...

Roberts, Doris and Morton, Danelle. Are You Hungry, Dear? Life, Laughs, and Lasagna.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 320p. illus. index. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-31226-1). 791.45. Actress Roberts weaves together recipes from her own kitchen with anecdotes from her life in show business to construct this effusive memoir. The Emmy-winning...

Late arrival.(My Anecdotal Life)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
April 1, 2003... Reiner, Carl. My Anecdotal Life. 2003. 256p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-31104-4). One of the grand old men of television talks about his life.

Berg, Elizabeth. Say When.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... June 2003. 272p. Atria, $24.95 (0-7434-1136-6). Popular author Berg (True to Life [BKL Mr 1 021) will thrill her fans with this sweet, often humorous novel about loss and reconciliation. Staid, routine-loving Frank Griffin is dealt a...

* Lehane, Dennis. Shutter Island.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 352p. Morrow, $25:95 (0-688-16317-3). Lehane is red hot--his Mystic River (2001) is currently being filmed by Clint Eastwood--and he returns with another blistering page-turner. It's 1954, and U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck...

Rush, Norman. Mortals.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... June 2003. 592p. Knopf, $26.95 (0-679-40622-0). Like Rush's National Book Award winner, Mating (1991), this huge, stirring novel is about middle-class Americans in Botswana, Africa. And Rush tells it with the same enthralling mix of...

Scott, Amanda. Dreaming the Eagle.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... June 2003. 480p. Delacorte, $23.95 (0-385-33670-5). Very little is known about Boudica, the first-century Celtic warrior who helped defend her tribe and Britain from Roman invaders. Nevertheless, Scott has written a suspenseful historical...

Weisberger, Lauren. The Devil Wears Prada.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 320p. Doubleday, $21.95 (0-385-50926-X). In this debut novel (part of a wave of exposes about bad bosses that is sweeping the publishing world), former Vogue assistant Weisberger provides a telling account of life as an underling...

Altemus, Barbara. The Gift of Pain: Transforming Hurt into Healing.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 304p Perigee, paper, $14.95 (0-399-52778-8). 155.9. When it can't be avoided, pain--physical, emotional, spiritual, or psychological--often prompts such questions as Why me? Why now? Why this? When Altemus experienced pain in her...

Armstrong, John. Conditions of Love: the Philosophy of Intimacy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 176p. index. Norton, $21 (0-393-05759-3). 152.41. Like an island of rock in the seas of sentimental popular literature, Armstrong's philosophical analysis of love challenges the beguiling simplisms of romantic fervor. Under...

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 256p. index. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03196-8). 174. The author, an academic, presents a guide to conducting business that is both successful and humane, using the values, goals, and modes of operation of 39 present and former...

Singleton, D. Kim. Broken Silence: Opening Your Heart and Mind to Therapy--a Black Woman's Recovery Guide.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 224p. Ballantine/One World, $22.95 (0-345-44644-5). 155.8. Singleton, a psychologist who has treated thousands of black women during her 15-year career, focuses on eight women to highlight recurring themes and to point to the...

Davis, Joyce M. Martyrs: Innocence, Vengeance and Despair in the Middle East.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 256p. index. Palgrave, $24.95 (0-312-29616-9). 297.7. From the author of Between J/had and Salaam (1997) comes this insightful, balanced discussion of a hot-button subject. Davis asks us to consider the possibility that Middle...

Who makes history? (The Manley Arts).(remembering Stephen Ambrose and Bill Mauldin)
April 1, 2003... I have a friend named Frank who is a reference librarian. He prides himself on being a realist. I call him a pessimist. He responds by saying that he suffers from an occupational hazard. Frank is a walking encyclopedia of disaster statistics....

Imagination & Spirit: a Contemporary Quaker Reader.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Ed. by J. Brent Bill. Apr. 2003. 288p. Friends United, paper, $19 (0-944350-61-5). 289.6. The influence of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, has far exceeded its perennially small membership, especially in...

* Marsden, George M. Jonathan Edwards.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 640p. illus. index. Yale, $35 (0-300-09693-3). 285.8. In the first full critical biography of Edwards in 60 years, a distinguished Notre Dame scholar humanizes America's greatest colonial clergyman, a man highly esteemed in his...

Russell, Peter. From Science to God: the Mystery of Consciousness and the Meaning of Light.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 144p. index. New World Library, $19.95 (1-57731-409-3). 215. Russell, well known for his work on the physiology of meditation, describes his personal struggle to bring science and spirit together and conducts readers through...

Smith, Huston and Novak, Philip. Buddhism: a Concise Introduction.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 208p. index. HarperSanFrancisco, $17.95 (0-06-050696-2). 294.3. Smith, the dean of religious studies in America, and his former student, philosophy and religion professor Novak, offer a concise, readable, enlightening...

Wuthnow, Robert. All in Sync: How Music and Art Are Revitalizing American Religion.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 320p. index. Univ. of California, $29.95 (0-520-23769-2). 291.3. True to his discipline--sociology--Wuthnow is a counter, and as is often the case with sociological studies, the challenge is to ascertain exactly what is being...

Blatner, David. The Flying Book: Everything You've Ever Wondered about Flying on Airplanes.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 256p. illus. index. Walker, $22 (0-8027-1378-5). 387.7. This is one book that lives up to the seemingly hyperbolic claims of its subtitle. Blatner, the author of books on mathematics, digital imaging, and virtual reality, is also...

Burns, James MacGregor. Transforming Leadership: a New Pursuit of Happiness.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 320p. Grove/Atlantic, $26 (0-87113-866-2). 303.3. Burns continues to study the art of leadership in this new examination of what he calls transitional leadership. Taking into account Jefferson's famous words, Burns states that...

Crimes of New York: Stories of Crooks, Killers, and Corruption from the World's Toughest City.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Ed. by Clint Willis. May 2003. 304p. Thunder's Mouth/Adrenaline, paper, $17.95 (1-56025-527-7). 364.1. True-crime aficionados rejoice! This collection of writings about the denizens of NYC's dark side is brutally good. Here are murderers...

Esquith, Rafe. There Are No Shortcuts.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 224p. Pantheon, $21 (0-375-42202-1). 372.11. Esquith, an award-winning elementary-school teacher, offers a passionate and respiring look at his 19-year career. Early on, Esquith transferred from a public school in a middle-class...

* Jenkins, Philip. The New Anti-Catholicism: the Last Acceptable Prejudice.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 288p. index. Oxford, $26 (0-19-515480-0). 305.6. Fear and hatred of Catholicism have a long pedigree in English North America--land settled, after all, by Protestants more sanguinary than sanguine about their religious freedom....

Foley, Jacqueline. Flex Time: a Working Mother's Guide to Balancing Career and Family.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 176p. Marlowe, paper, $13.95 (1-56924-482-0). 306.874. Based on interviews with more than 100 women--and her own experience--Foley offers practical advice on how women can balance the demands of motherhood and careers. She...

Gore, Ariel. Atlas of the Human Heart.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 336p. Seal, paper, $14.95 (1-58005-088-3). 305.235. In the late 1980s, at age 16, Gore dropped out of high school, took her GED, and bought a one-way ticket to Hong Kong. From there she made her way to China, finagled herself into...

* Stern, Sol. Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 239p. Encounter, $24.95 (1-893554-07-4). 379.1. When his son Jonathan was accepted at New York's premier elementary school, P.S. 87, city-schools-educated Stern presumed the boy was off to a good start. He was, though not as good...

Kindsvatter, Peter S. American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 480p. illus. index. Univ. Press of Kansas, $34.95 (0-7006-1229-7). 355. Thoroughly mining twentieth-century foot soldiers' memoirs and novels, Kindsvatter integrates this literature of personal experience into a generalized...

Lowry, Beverly. Her Dream of Dreams: the Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 480p. illus. index. Knopf, $27.50 (0-679-44642-7). 338.7. Lowry inserts herself and her research process into this absorbing biography of Madame Walker, America's first black woman millionaire. This technique only adds to the...

Pipes, Richard. The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 153p. illus. index. Yale, $22.95 (0-300-09848-0). 322.4. The organization People's Will, which was responsible for the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881, is pertinent not only to the genealogy of Russian radicalism but...

Raggio, Louise Ballerstedt and Castleberry, Vivian Anderson. Texas Tornado: the Autobiography of a Crusader for Women's Rights and Family Justice.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 304p. illus. index. Citadel, $24.95 (0-8065-2448-0). 302.4. As a jurist, she ranks alongside such outstanding women lawyers as former Attorney General Janet Reno and Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As a feminist, she...

Stanush, Claude and Stanush, Michele. All Honest Men.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 320p. illus. Permanent Press, $28 (1-57962-084-1). 364.3. Although most readers have probably never heard of them, the Newton gang--J. Willis Newton and his brothers Joe, Jess, and Dock--were bank and train robbers who, during...

Theodore, Wayne and Horwitz, Leslie Alan. Wayne: an Abused Child's Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 224p. Harbor, $19.95 (0-936197-45-5). 362.7. Theodore, now middle-aged, grew up with 11 siblings, an incredibly abusive father, and a meek mother. In this powerful memoir, he recalls a long history of abuse and neglect that he...

Walsh, Kenneth T. Air Force One: a History of the Presidents and Their Planes.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 288p. Hyperion, $24.95 (1-4013-0004-9). 387.7. Since Walsh started covering the White House for U.S. News &World Report in 1986, he has traveled on Air Force One more than 200 times. Franklin Roosevelt was the first of 13...

Gubman, Ed. The Engaging Leader: Winning with Today's Free Agent Workforce.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 224p. index. Dearborn, $25 (0-7931-6514-8). 658.3. A former partner of a worldwide human-resources consulting firm looks at the state of corporations today, concluding that many businesses are, and will be, failing because of...

* Kushner, David. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 333p. index. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50524-5). 794.8. Kushner has cracked open the dark world of John Carmack and John Romero, the authors of the blockbuster computer games Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake. Reading this fascinating...

Schaye, Kimberly and Losee, Christopher. Stronger Than Dirt: How One Urban Couple Grew a Business, a Family, and a New Way of Life from the Ground Up.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 320p illus. Crown/Three Rivers, paper, $14 (0-609-80975-X). 630. Schaye was an editorial writer for the New York Daily News, and her husband, Losee, was facing the failure of a construction business begun by his father when they...

Shapiro, Ellen R. Shopping the North Carolina Furniture Outlets: How to Save 50-80% on Your Next Furniture Purchase.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 240p. illus. index. Crown/Three Rivers, paper, $15 (1-4000-4647-5). 645. There are at ]east 50 good reasons why 60 percent of all U.S. furniture is manufactured within a 100-mile radius of Hickory and High Point, North Carolina....

Weiss, Gary. Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 384p. Warner, $24.95 (0-446-52857-9). 364.16. Weiss, a business journalist, tells the fascinating story of Louis Pasciuto, a man "born to steal," who grew up in the Wall Street Mafia, was caught by law enforcement at age 25, and...

Jones, Steve. Y: The Descent of Men: Revealing the Mysteries of Maleness.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 272p. index. Houghton, $25 (0-618-13930-3). 599.93. British science writer Jones declares that it's men, not women, who are the weaker sex. Even within their embryonic development, much can go awry. If they manage to emerge from...

Levenson, Thomas. Einstein in Berlin.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 496p. index. Bantam, $25.95 (0-553-10344-X). 530. Holding Einstein's 18-year residence in the German capital, from 1914 to 1932, as "a measure of the place," author Levenson weds war, revolution, culture, and Nazi ascendancy to...

Meredith, Martin. Elephant Destiny: Biography of an Endangered Species in Africa.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 288p. illus. index. PublicAffairs, $24.95 (1-58648-077-4). 599.67. The long, sad history of the relationship between the African elephant and humans is detailed in this succinct account. Meredith, a former foreign correspondent...

Hallion, Richard P. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 504p. illus. index. Oxford, $35 (0-19-516035-5). 629.13. Hallion, an international authority on aviation, draws on journals, diaries, and memoirs of aviation pioneers in a book that he has divided into what he calls "seven...

LaSalle, Barbara. Finding Ben: a Mother's Journey through the Maze of Asperger's.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 256p. index. Contemporary, paper, $19.95 (0-07-140225-X). 618.92. Extremely rare is the mother who doesn't worry about whether she is a good parent, and it is easy to become obsessed trying to do everything right for one's...

Amos, Sharon. Tough Plants: Unkillable Plants for Every Garden.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 144p. illus. index. Firefly, $29.95 (1-55297-528-7); paper, $21.95 (1-55297-526-6). 635.9. Into every life some rain must fall. Or maybe not. Whether your garden is beset by monsoonal moisture or withering winds, frigid cold or...

Berry, Susan. Giant Perennials: Star Performers for the Garden.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 144p. illus. index. Firefly, $29.95 (1-55297-749-8); paper, $21.95 (1-55297-712-9). 635.9. When it comes to adding structure to the garden, size matters. Whether it's a single, dramatic focal point or a sweeping drift of vivid...

Heiser, Charles B. Weeds in My Garden: Observations on Some Misunderstood Plants.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 248p. illus. index. Timber, paper, $22.95 (0-88192-582-9). 635.9. Weed warfare seems to occupy most of a gardener's time, yet these unrivaled adaptative champions of the plant world need not be the bane of one's existence. Some,...

Mellor, David R. The Lawn Bible: How to Keep It Green, Groomed, and Growing Every Season of the Year.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 288p. illus. index. Hyperion, paper, $16.95 (0-7868-8842-3). 635.9. Mellor writes for those individuals who take well-groomed grass seriously and strive to surround their homes with lush green turf. Penned with spirit and...

Ouellet, Kerstin P. Contain Yourself: 101 Fresh Ideas for Fantastic Container Gardens.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 312p. illus. index. Ball, $24.95 (1-883052-33-5). 635.9. Frustrated container gardeners, rejoice! Ouellet offers not just one, but one-hundred-and-one foolproof recipes for successfully creating stunning container gardens to...

Swindells, Philip. The Water Garden Encyclopedia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... 2003. 256p. illus. index. Firefly, $45 (1-55297-715-3); paper, $29.95 (1-55297-717-X). 635.9. Swindells has long been engaged in the many facets of water gardening and aquatic plants, and imparts his considerable expertise in a...

Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Ed. by Sidney Gottlieb. May 2003. 232p. index. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $46 (1-57806-561-5); paper, $18 (1-57806-562-3). 791.43. Arguably the most famous of all film directors, Hitchcock was very likely also the most interviewed; his...

Anderson, John. Art Held Hostage: the Battle over the Barnes Collection.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 288p. illus. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-04889-6). 708.148. In 1912, as Albert C. Barnes was making his fortune in pharmaceuticals, he dispatched the painter William Glackens to Europe with $20,000. His mission: to bring back art....

Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Ed. by David Gissen. 2003. 192p. illus. Princeton Architectural, $40 (1-56898-361-1). 720. Cities operate as unnatural ecosystems. Buildings breathe in and out. They consume and waste resources. They foul the air. Now more architects and...

* Schickel, Richard. Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory, and World War II.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 306p. index. Ivan R. Dee, $27.50 (1-56663-491-1). 791.43. The movie bug bit film reviewer and historian Schickel just in time for World War II, which began when he was six, and his childhood memoir counterpoints recollections of...

Briggs, Joe Bob. Profoundly Disturbing: the Shocking Movies That Changed History.(John Bloom)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 224p. illus. Universe, paper, $29.95 (0-7893-0844-4). 791.43. Briggs brings the sensibilities of his late, lamented cable-TV review show, Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater, to the pages of this meditation on how sensational movies have...

Nachman, Gerald. Seriously Funny: the Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 672p. illus. index. Pantheon, $29.95 (0-375-41030-9). 792.7. Now that Lenny Bruce is lionized for freeing stand-up from most constraints on material and language, Nachman figures it is time other "rebel" comics of the 1950s and...

Sherwood, Shirley. Contemporary Botanical Artists: the Shirley Sherwood Collection.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 240p. illus. Weidenfeld and Nicolson; dist. by Sterling, paper, $29.95 (0-297-82270-5). 743.7. The fine art of botanical illustration enjoys a long, illustrious history in Great Britain. Likewise, outstanding work by contemporary...

Adrahtas, Tom. Glenn Hall: the Man They Call Mr. Goalie.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 256p. illus. index. Moyer Bell/Albion, paper, $16.95 (0-9709170-1-5). 796.962. Although this is the "authorized story" of redoubtable net keeper Hall, that phrase, which often signals a banal or sanitized take on its subject,...

Barrios, Dagny Scott. Runner's World Complete Guide to Trail Running.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 200p. illus. Rodale, paper, $19.95 (1-57954-466-5). 796.42. Here, in one neat package, is pretty much everything you need to know about trail running--running, that is, on dirt trails, not pavement. It isn't (or, at least, it...

Heywood, Joseph. Covered Waters: Tempests of a Nomadic Trouter.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 288p. Lyons, $22.95 (1-58574-766-1). 799.1. Heywood, author of several novels, including Blue Wolf in Green Fire [BKL S 15 02], was prompted to write this memoir while he was recovering from a stroke and struggling to recapture...

Kaat, Jim and Pepe, Phil. Still Pitching: Musings from the Mound and the Microphone.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 208p. illus. index. Triumph, $24.95 (1-57243-518-6). 796.357. When he retired in 1983, Kaat had spent more time in a major-league baseball uniform than any other player. That alone merits a memoir. In addition to his...

* Rosson, Joe L. and Fendelman, Helaine. Price It Yourself! The Definitive, Down-to-Earth Guide to Appraising Antiques and Collectibles in Your Home, at Auctions, Estate Sales, Shops, and Yard Sales.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 384p. illus. index. Harper Resource, paper, $19.95 (0-06-009684-5). 745.1. Run--do not walk--to borrow, beg, or buy a copy of PBS-TV hosts Rosson and Fendelman's latest book (the first one was named for their show, Treasures in...

Lieberman, Noah. Glove Affairs: the Romance, History, and Tradition of the Baseball Glove.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 159p. illus. Triumph, paper, $19.95 (1-57243-420-1). 796.357. How is it that Larry King remembers every detail about his first baseball glove, but Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith can't recall a thing about his? Such is the...

McDermott, Mickey and Eisenberg, Howard. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cooperstown.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 288p. illus. index. Triumph, $24.95 (1-57243-532-1). 796.357. The baseball landscape is littered with hundreds of "can't-miss" prospects who, for reasons both tragic and comic, are soon forgotten. McDermott is one of those. He...

Wells, David and Kreski, Chris. Perfect I'm Not! Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches & Baseball.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 432p. illus. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-050824-8). 796.357. Wells has been a high-quality big-league pitcher for 15 years, but more than that, he is one of the few honest-to-goodness personalities in the game. Raised on the fringes of...

Ai. Dread.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 128p. Norton, $22.95 (0-393-04143-3). 811. Ai is the queen of poetic monologues. Her new collection of unsparing, often headline-inspired recitations continues the potent series that includes Vice (1999), Greed (1993), and Fate...

Duffy, Carol Ann. Feminine Gospels.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 80p. Faber and Faber, $20 (0-571-21187-9). 821. One of Britain's premiere poets here does what she does best, joining wild, surrealistic imagery and pointillist detail to create sharply realized, visionary poems. This collection...

* Cole, Henri. Middle Earth.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 80p. Farrar, $20 (0-374-20881-6). 811. This is a book about loneliness and consolation. Cole now sees a "young gray head in the mirror," and the poems of his fifth collection report the familiar circumstances of midlife. The...

Espada, Martin. Alabanza: New and Selected Poems (1982-2002).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 224p. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-05192-7). 811. Although a U.S. citizen born in Brooklyn, Espada has a larger loyalty, out of which he has forged a passionate, compelling, eminently readable poetry that makes him arguably the most...

Frost, Carol. I Will Say Beauty.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 96p. Northwestern Univ./TriQuarterly, $49.95 (0-8101-5138-3); paper, $14.95 (0-8101-5139-1). 811. Frost is an avid witness to tropical nature's balletic busyness. Dazzled by the riotous fecundity of Florida's Cedar Keys, she...

Goodman, Loren. Famous Americans.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 80p. Yale, $24.95 (0-300-10002-7); paper, $12.95 (0-300-10003-5). 811. The Yale Series of Younger Poets is always worth investigating, and this year's winner is as surprising in its inventiveness as it is pleasing in its humor....

Harrison, Jim and Kooser, Ted. Braided Creek: a Conversation in Poetry.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 90p. Copper Canyon, paper, $15 (1-55659-187-X). 811. Friends and fellow poets Harrison and Kooser decided to have a correspondence entirely in short poems after Kooser was diagnosed with cancer and, Harrison says, "Ted's poetry...

Howe, Fanny. Gone.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 128p. Univ. of California, $34.95 (0-520-23624-6); paper, $16.95 (0-520-23810-9). 811. Howe has written nearly two dozen works of poetry and fiction, received many awards, and found entry into a highly rarefied, metaphysical...

Top 10 poetry books.(reviews)(Bibliography)
April 1, 2003... The 10 best-reviewed collections of poetry during the last 12 months don't immediately reveal any similarities. Oh, the subjects of individual poems may resemble one another insofar as they are common in all poetry--flowers, sun, weather,...

* Hacker, Marilyn. Desesperanto: Poems, 1999-2002.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... May 2003. 128p. Norton, $23.95 (0-393-05418-7). 811. Hacker is a poet-lover of two cities, natal New York and adopted Paris, and she writes about their skies, streets, and citizens with sensory precision and an abiding sense of history. In...

Keithley, George. The Starry Messenger.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 80p. Univ. of Pittsburgh, paper, $12.95 (0-8229-5816-3). 811. In his ninth book, Keithley returns to the linked poetic sequence--the form he used in the award-winning The Donner Party (1972)--and joins the increasing number of...

Kerouac, Jack. Book of Haikus.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Ed. by Regina Weinreich. Apr. 2003. 240p. Penguin, paper, $13 (0-14-771813-9). 811. Kerouac wrote a great deal of poetry, some in traditional forms, the rest in more experimental modes such as blues and his version of haiku. As Beat expert...

Mitcham, Judson. This April Day.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 80p. Anhinga, paper, $12 (0-938078-73-9). 811. In his day job, so to speak, Mitcham is a psychology professor at a state university in Georgia. On the evidence of his immensely appealing, vivid, listenable poems, he must be a...

Monaghan, Patricia. Dancing with Chaos.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 84p. Salmon; dist. by Dufour, paper, $12.95 (0-903392-27-6). 811. Monaghan's prose works, including The Goddess Path (1999) and The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit [BKL Mr 1 03], explore the...

Murray, Les. Poems the Size of Photographs.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 128p. Farrar, $20 (0-374-23520-1). 821. In his eleventh book, renowned Australian poet Murray concentrates his muscular style, passion for landscape, and satirical humor into short and pithy poems. Tightly framed, most can be...

Raab, Lawrence. Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Apr. 2003. 192p. Penguin, paper, $18 (0-14-200269-0). 811. Raab's poems are plainspoken, open in their cadences, conversational and confiding. They seem, at first read, to be rather modest and matter-of-fact, easygoing and affable. But just...