Publishers Weekly articles from February 1999, page 2

Publishers Weekly archives from February 1999

BROKEN LINES.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Jo Bannister. St. Martin's, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 0-312-19842-6 The police of Castlemere, England, try desperately to identify the person behind a brutal beating in this brilliantly plotted addition to a reliable British procedural series (A...

MARCH PUBLICATIONS.(Review)
February 22, 1999... Following up their popular companion guide to Agatha Christie, Dick Riley and Pam McAllister have written The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes, a thorough--and thoroughly entertaining--survey of Sherlockiana,...

PATRIARCH'S HOPE.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... David Feintuch. Warner Aspect, $24 (528p) ISBN 0-446-52458-1 It's full speed ahead with all lasers blazing in this addition (after Voices of Hope) to Feintuch's popular space opera series. Nicholas Seafort, hero of the Transpop Rebellion,...

THE DRAGONS OF SPRING PLACE.(Review)
February 22, 1999... Robert Reed. Golden Gryphon (IPG, dist.), $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-96559016-X Like Reed's 1997 novel Beneath the Gated Sky, these 11 short stories, all written since 1993 and originally published in Asimov's or the Magazine of Fantasy &...

THE DEMON APOSTLE.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... R.A. Salvatore. Del Rey, $25 (464p) ISBN 0-345-39153-5 This extension (after The Demon Spirit) of the adventures of ranger Elbryan and his lover, Pony, may be Salvatore's strongest fantasy to date. Aided by his friends, the elf Juraviel...

GUARDIAN OF THE BALANCE: Merlin's Descendants, Volume I.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Irene Radford. DAW, $23.95 (544p) ISBN 0-88677-826-3 The protagonist of this first novel in a fantasy series of the tales of King Arthur is Arylwren, nicknamed Wren, daughter of Myrddin Emrys, The Merlin, and Deirdre, high priestess of...

A CAVERN OF BLACK ICE: Sword of Shadows, Book I.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... J.V. Jones. Warner Aspect, $24 (752p) ISBN O-446-52414-X The first volume of Jones's (The Barbed Coil, etc.) new trilogy is set in a sub-arctic land so vividly realized that it contributes notably to the book's suspense and emotional...

A BOY AND HIS TANK.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Leo Frankowski. Baen, $21 (288p) ISBN 0-671-57796-4 Centuries in the future, on the distant and dirt-poor planet of New Kashubia, young Mickolai Derdowski is sentenced to death for getting his girlfriend, Kasia, pregnant. His only...

MARCH PUBLICATIONS.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Jesus appears in Miami a few months before the millennium in James Quartro's fantastic thriller The Stewards of South Beach. "Brother" convinces his modern disciples, who include Time reporter Matthew, San Francisco fisherman Peter and TV...

EVERY WOMAN HAS A STORY: Many Voices, Many Lessons, Many Lives.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Compiled by Daryl Ott Underhill. Warner, $20 (320p) ISBN 0-446-52460-3 The subject matter of this originally self-published collection of unvarnished short personal stories and poems will resonate with many women. Underhill, who selected...

1863: The Rebirth of a Nation.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Joseph E. Stevens. Bantam, $26.95 (464p) ISBN 0-553-10314-8 On the first day of 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. At that time, the Union was pondering the very real possibility of gloomy defeat in the wake of successive...

THE REAL WILD WEST: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Michael Wallis. St. Martin's, $35 (640p) ISBN 0-312-19286-X After reading Wallis's lively history, even readers who had never heard of the 101 Ranch will feel as if they've known of it all their lives. At its height, George W. Miller's...

FAULT LINES: journeys Into the New South Africa.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... David Goodman. Univ. of California, $29.95 (364p) ISBN 0-520-21736-5 In this richly textured book, Goodman--who first went to South Africa as an activist in 1984 and returned for a year in 1996--profiles four pairs of people who...

BELLA TUSCANY: The Sweet Life in Italy.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Frances Mayes. Broadway, $25 (304p) ISBN 0-7679-1283-1 More of the same adds up to very little in this sequel to Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun. She and her companion, Ed, have finished renovating their Tuscan farmhouse. Mayes, who divides...

RESPECT: An Exploration.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot. Perseus, $23 (256p) ISBN 0-7382-0093-X In this provocative study, Harvard professor of education Lawrence-Lightfoot probes the common perception that our social fabric is deteriorating from the absence of respect...

THE CURSE: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo, Menstruation.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Karen Houppert. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24 (3O4p) ISBN 0-374-27366-9 In this history of "the culture of concealment" surrounding menstruation and the effect of that secrecy on American women, Houppert presents medical, historical,...

LETTERS TO HARRY: The True Story of a Daughter's Love and a Mother's Final Journey.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Janet Farrington Graham. Time-Life, $18.95 (208p) ISBN 0-7370-0046-5 This collection of sad, tender and introspective letters written to the author's colleague and good friend spans eight months when her mother was dying from breast...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF BARNEYS: A Family Tale of Chutzpah, Glory, and Greed.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Joshua Levine. Morrow, $25 (272p) ISBN 0-688-15502-2 The once glittering image of Barneys takes a further drubbing in this dishy, highly entertaining history of the Pressman family store that got too big for its very expensive britches....

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE MONEY: Fresh Starts at Any Age-And Any Season of Your Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Ginger Applegarth with Leslie Whitaker. Viking, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 0-670-87397-7 Applegarth (The Money Diet), a certified financial planner and frequent TV tailing head, offers advice in a comforting "if I did it, then so can you" style....

WORK AND FAMILY: Essays from the "Work and Family" Column of the Wall Street Journal.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Sue Shellenbarger. Ballantine, $24 (352p) ISBN 0-345-42226-0 "Nobody on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office."' Shellenbarger, who has been writing the "Work and Family" column for the Wall Street Journal...

STANDING IN A RIVER WAVING A STICK.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... John Gierach. Simon & Schuster, $23 (256p) ISBN 0-684-82425-6 Everything from bears to the mysterious ways of ornery trout comes under the attention of Gierach in this lighthearted collection of essays, which is less concerned with the...

HEAT: My Life on and off the Diamond.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Dwight Gooden with Bob Klapisch. Morrow, $24 (234p) ISBN 0-688-16339-4 As fans of the 1986 New York Mets slept happily on the night after the team's dramatic 16-inning pennant-clinching victory over the Houston Astros, members of the...

IRVING BERLIN: American Troubadour.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Edward Jablonski. Holt, $35 (384p) ISBN 0-8050-4077-3 Jablonski--biographer of the Gershwins, Harold Arlen and Alan Jay Lerner--has written a vibrant, royally entertaining, song-drenched biography of Irving Berlin. Jablonski fleshes out...

A COMMUNITY OF WRITERS: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Edited by Robert Dana. Univ. of Iowa, $17.95 (304p) ISBN 0-87745-668-2 Through the recollections of graduates and teachers, this book recalls the early years of the fabled Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Paul Engle, the...

OUT OF THE ASHES: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn. HarperCollins, $26 (320p) ISBN 0-06-019266-6 Indispensable to anyone who wants to understand the Iraq crisis, the Cockburns' riveting report on Saddam Hussein's murderous regime and U.S-backed...

GIDEON'S SPIES: The Secret History of the Mossad.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Gordon Thomas. St. Martin's/Dunne, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 0-312-19982-1 The discipline of Israel's Mossad is legendary: members and former members fiercely guard the intelligence agency's methods and rarely talk to journalists. But many,...

EMBRACING DEFEAT: Japan in the Wake of World War II.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... John W Dower. Norton and the New Press, $29.95 (688p) ISBN 0-393-04686-9 The writing of history doesn't get much better than this. MIT professor Dower (author of the NBCC Award--winning War Without Mercy) offers a dazzling political and...

SIEGFRIED SASSOON: The Making of a War Poet: A Biography 1886-1918.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Routledge, $35 (600p) ISBN 0-415-92325-5 Reintroduced to contemporary readers by Pat Barker's acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, in which he figures as a major character, Sassoon was the first English soldier-poet to...

THE ROOTS OF ROMANTICISM.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy. Princeton Univ., $24.95 (l6Op) ISBN 0-691-00713-6. In this posthumous volume, the British philosopher and historian of ideas quickly establishes his theory that Germany- not England or France-was the...

HOLLYWOOD RAT RACE.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Ed Wood Jr. Four Walls Eight Windows, $15.95 paper (140p) ISBN 1-56858-1 19-X Advice on achieving silver-screen immortality from an unlikely source, this kitschy and catty portrait of Tinseltown isn't likely to win any new fans for Wood,...

ARTHUR RIMBAUD.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Benjamin Ivry. Absolute Press [Stewart, Tabori & Chang, dist.], $9.95 paper (l36p) ISBN 1-899791-71-X Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of poetry. A true prodigy, he had fully arrived as a poet and...

AN ELEGANT MADNESS: High Society in Regency England.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Venetia Murray. Viking, $29.95 (3l6p) ISBN 0-670-88328-X History buffs, Anglophiles and perhaps even fans of Regency romances will enjoy this survey of the notoriously flamboyant English Regency period (here covering the years 1780-1830)....

RIDING THE DEMON: On the Road in West Africa.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Peter Chilson. Univ. of Georgia, $24.95 (208p) ISBN 0-8203-2036-6 In this vivid exploration of road culture in the West African nation of Niger, Chilson describes a crucial aspect of African culture as a whole: the bush taxi, or "taxi...

A UNIT OF WATER, A UNIT OF TIME: Joel White's Last Boat.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Douglas Whynott. Doubleday, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-385-48812-2 Even readers with no special interest in boats are likely to be caught up in this elegant homage to Maine boatbuilder Joel White (son of E.B. White), who pursued his obsession...

DIRECT FROM DELL: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Michael Dell with Katherine Fredman. HarperBusiness, $26 (256p) ISBN 0-88-730914-3 The results are impressive: a 19 year-old with $1000 starts a company, remains at the helm and on top of changes in the industry for 10 years, and watches...

SOARING WITH THE PHOENIX: Renewing the Vision, Reviving the Spirit, and Re-creating the Success of Your Company.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... James A. Belasco and Jerre Stead. Warner, $25 (448p) ISBN 0-446-53400-X Readers are bound to be left feeling disoriented after reading this book by Belasco, coauthor of Flight of the Buffalo, and Stead, CEO of Ingram Micro. Although the...

ETERNAL ECHOES: Exploring Our Yearning to Belong.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... John O'Donohue. HarperCollins/Cliff Street, $25 (304p) ISBN 0-06-018280-6 Following his popular Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, O'Donohue offers a soaring, eloquent meditation on the art of living. In most people, be maintains, an...

A MATHEMATICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... A.K. Dewdney. Wiley, $22.95 (224p) ISBN 0-471-23847-3 Does the realm of numbers exist independently of numbers' manifestations in physical structures, awaiting our discovery? Or has humanity created mathematics and then found that it...

THE FIFTH MIRACLE: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Paul Davies. Simon & Schuster, $25 (304p) ISBN 0-684-83799-4 With ease and charm, and without dumbing down the pertinent technical and philosophical issues, popular-science writer Davies (Are We Alone?: The Philosophical Basis of the...

SECOND CHANCE: A Life After Death.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Marvin Barrett, foreword by James Park Morton. Parabola (Words Distributing, dist.), $24.95 (224P) ISBN 0-930407-42-3 "I died and was born again," writes Barrett of his near-death experience in 1984 at age 63. There was no tunnel with a...

HEAL THY SELF: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Saki Santorelli, foreword by Jon KabatZinn. Crown/Bell Tower, $23 (272p) ISBN O- 609-60385-X Santorelli, director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, offers a collection of inspirational...

CROSSING WILDCAT RIDGE.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Philip Lee Williams. Univ. of Georgia, $24.95 (236p) ISBN 0-8203-2090-0 Williams's dread at the slow realization that he inherited the same heart-disease gene that has killed other members of his family is frightening--particularly so...

SNAPSHOTS.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... The lavish, greatly expanded second edition of An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic Collection chronicles in words and images the rise of the artistic medium that, perhaps more than any...

FROM THE VAULTS.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... A grab bag of photos, memoirs, magazine stories and cartoons, Dead Reckonings: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead traces the career of the ebullient psychedelic band from its mid-1960s genesis to guitarist Jerry Garcia's death at a...

MARCH PUBLICATIONS.
February 22, 1999... The joint efforts of Parkstone Press and the Great Encyclopedia of Russia Publishing House have culminated in the stunningly illustrated The Great History of Russian Ballet: Its Art and Choreography. With 152 photos and illustrations, the...

LETTER TO A YOUNG MAN IN THE FIRE: Does God Exist and Does He Care?(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Reynolds Price. Scribner, $20 (1l2p) ISBN 0-684-85626-3 (Religion/Memoir) In April 1997, novelist Price (Roxanna Slade) received a letter from a young medical student, Jim Fox, stricken with cancer, whose comments implied two simple but...

SIMPLICITY: Finding Peace by Uncluttering Your Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Kim Thomas. Broadman & Holman, $8.99 paper (l28p) ISBN 0-8054-1853-9 (Christianity/Spirituality) Poet, painter and singer/songwriter (as half of the modern pop duo Sayso) Thomas debuts as author in this warm, funny volume aimed at...

HUSTLING GOD: Why We Work So Hard for What God Wants to Give.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... M. Craig Barnes. Zondervan, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 0-310-21954-X (Christianity/Spirituality) Barnes takes readers on a lifelong journey with Jacob paralleling this biblical figure's internal struggles with our own. As Barnes states, Jacob...

WHERE IS GOD WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN?: Finding Solace in Times of Trouble.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Luis Palau. Doubleday, $19.95 (240p) ISBN 0-385-49263-4 (Christianity/Spirituality) Christian evangelist Palau addresses one of the most difficult topics of faith, evil. For the most part, his book is not analytic like CS. Lewis's The...

JESUS THE STORYTELLER: Relating His Stories to My Story.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Brian L. Harbour. Smyth & Helwys Publishing, $11 (l28p) ISBN 1-57312-251-3 (Christianity/Inspiration) In relating Jesus' stories to his own stories, Harbour devotes the majority of space to his own--not necessarily stories about himself...

KOSHER SEX.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Shmuley Boteach. Doubleday, $19.95 (288p) ISBN 0-385-49465-3 (Judaism/Marriage & Family) Despite its title's implication, Kosher Sex is not a prudish book. Rather, this manifesto on using sex as a marital aid takes the view that sex is...

THE RELIGIOUS THOUGHT OF HASIDISM: Text and Commentary.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Norman Lamm. KTAV, $29.50 paper (624p) ISBN 0-88125-4-40-1 (Judaism/History Scripture) Lamm, who is president of Yeshiva University, offers a monumental and magisterial history of Hasidism. When it emerged in the 18th century under the...

EVE AND ADAM: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Edited by Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing and Valarie H. Ziegler. Indiana Univ., $24.95 paper (608p) ISBN 0-253-21271-5 (Religion/Scripture) In western culture and religion, the Genesis story of Eve and Adam has established and...

GOD HAS AN ANSWER FOR OUR UNMET NEEDS.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Charles Stanley. Thomas Nelson, $19.99 (256p) ISBN 0-8407-9143-7 (Christianity/Spirituality) Popular Southern Baptist pastor Stanley (Enter His Gates) contends that we all have unmet needs for love and acceptance, and for financial and...

BLINDED BY MIGHT: Can the Religious Right Save America?(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson, Zondervan, $19.99 (l8lp) ISBN 0-310-22650-3 (Christianity/Politics) According to syndicated columnist Thomas and minister Dobson, the Religious Right has done more harm than good. Once on the frontlines of the...

THE EXTRAORDINARY NATURE OF ORDINARY THINGS.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Steven Leder. Behrman House, $16.95 (l60p) ISBN 0-87441-647-7 (Judaism/Spirituality) It is through the unremarkable events of daily life that we discover universal and wondrous spiritual truths. Finding meaning in the mundane is just a...

GOD KNOWS MY HEART.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Christine Wicker. St. Martin's, $22.95 (240p) ISBN O-312-19272-X (Religion/Memoir) Raised as a fundamentalist Southern Baptist, religion journalist Wicker (Dallas Morning News) fell away from her faith as a young woman and spent several...

THE FIRST MESSIAH: Investigating the Savior Before Jesus.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Michael O. Wise. Harper San Francisco, $25 (352p) ISBN 0-06-069645-1 (Religion/Biblical Studies) In a mix of historical research, sociological analysis and fiction, Wise (The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered) tells a story about a messiah...

FEBRUARY PUBLICATIONS:.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Can any good come out of suffering? Is there any way to use past grief? Can pain make us more Godly? Counselor Dan Allender (The Wounded Heart) answers these and other questions as he offers guidance along The Healing Path: How the Hurts in...

THE EASTER STORY.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... According to the Gospels of Matthew, Luke & John from the King James Bible, illus. by Gennady Spirin. Holt, $19.95 ISBN 0-8050-5052-3 (Christianity/Holidays) Spirin (The Christmas Story) weaves together the major biblical accounts of...

MICHAEL HAGUE'S FAMILY EASTER TREASURY.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Michael Hague. Holt, $19.95 ISBN 0-8050-3819-1 (Christianity/Holidays) The miracle of Easter remains one of the most difficult religious observances to explain to children. But Hague (The Teddy Bears' Picnic) admirably takes on the task...

WHO MADE THE WILD WOODS?(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Scharlotte Rich, illus. by Anna Currey. WaterBrook (800/603-7051), $14.95 (48p) ISBN 1-57856-027-6 (Christianity/Spirituality) A chipper rhyming text encourages very young children to see God's hand in the natural world around them in...

THE GOODBYE BOAT.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Mary Joslin, illus, by Claire St. Louis Little. Eerdmans, $15 (28p) ISBN 0-8028-5186-X (Christianity/Spirituality) With minimal text and artwork that brims with symbolism, this picture book explores the difficult subject matter of the...

THIS IS OUR SEDER.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Ziporah Hildebrandt, illus. by Robin Roraback. Holiday, $15.95 ISBN 0-8234-1436-1 (Judaism/Holidays) The text for this inviting volume couldn't be simpler, as Hildebrandt (Sea Girl and the Dragon King) deftly pares down the Passover...

NOAH AND THE GREAT FLOOD.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Mordicai Gerstein. S&S, $16 (32p) ISBN 0-688-81371-6 (Judaism/Bible) The Old Testament tale of Noah's ark gets some extra oomph in this exuberant picture book rendition. Employing legends from the Jewish tradition, Gerstein (The Wild...

The Family Haggadah.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... No, it's not the whole megillah, but toddlers preparing for Purim (on March 2) can take in a pared-down version of the story behind that holiday in the board book Purim! by Camille Kress. Using only seven pages, each with highly patterned...

ON THE BUS WITH ROSA PARKS.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Rita Dove. Norton, $21 (80p) ISBN 0-393-04722-9 Dove's brilliance--as with all great writers--is inextricable from her formal gifts: her poems effortlessly suggest grand narratives and American myths, yet ground themselves tersely in...

GIRLS ON THE RUN.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... John Ashbery. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20 (64p) ISBN 0-374-16270-0 This beautiful long poem presents Ashbery at his most contradictory: it is both his most Homeric and "narrative" long poem, yet at the same time his most joissant,...

JACKSTRAWS.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Charles Simic. Harcourt, $22 (96p) ISBN 0-15-100422-6 By now, Simic's matter-of-fact tossings off of the gothic, the banal and the absurd are so familiar that it's hard to know when he's putting us on. In this 13th collection, less...

THE OLDEST MAP WITH THE NAME AMERICA: New and Selected Poems.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Lucia Perillo. Random, $19.95 (l60p) ISBN 0-375-50160-6 Whether recalling the first moon landing ("Apollo") or reflecting on sound enhancement during a film's post-production ("Foley"), Perillo, in her mature work, manages to weave stark...

MATINEES.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Ange Mlinko. Zoland, $13 (l28p) ISBN 1-581-95005-5 "Filling innocent pastry with rubies"-as in her masterfully askew poem "Free Refill"-Mlinko is at the forefront of a wave of quirky, emotional gesturists currently turning New York City...

QUEEN OF THE MIST: The Forgotten Heroine of Niagara.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Joan Murray. Beacon, $20 (128p) ISBN 0-8070-6852-7 LOOKING FOR THE PARADE Joan Murray. Norton, $21 (1l2p) ISBN 0-393-0472-X These two books, the first a runner-up for Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award and...

HANDWRITING.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Michael Ondaatje. Knopf, $22 (88p) ISBN 0-375-40559-3 Ondaatje's first book of poetry or prose since his bestselling novel The English Patient (1992) offers Western readers knowingly attractive, nostalgic views of his native Sri Lanka....

THE LONG VIEW.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Charles O. Hartman. Wesleyan Univ./UPNE, $12.95 (l36p) ISBN 0-8195-2253-8; $25 cloth -6380-3 A selection of technically deft and diverting, but finally mild lyric poems opens this polyphonic fifth collection. Far more intriguing, is the...

THE BREAKAGE.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Glyn Maxwell. Houghton Muffin, $20 (96p) ISBN 0-395-96320-6 Like a younger Thom Gunn or Paul Muldoon, U.K. phenom Maxwell (Out of the Rain) is comfortably settled on these shores, issuing this fourth collection from his base camp at...

THE SELECTED POEMS OF YVOR WINTERS.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Edited by R.L. Barth; introduction by Helen Pinkerton Trimpi. Ohio Univ., $14.95 (128p) ISBN 0-8040-1013-7; $28.95 cloth-1012-9. Thirty years after his death, Winters (1900-1968) is still known primarily as the American poet-critic who...

TRY.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Cole Swensen. Univ. of Iowa, $10.95 (80p) ISBN 0-87745-659-3 The world fleshed forth in oil paint, from Giotto to Joseph Albers, is meticulously essayed in the mixed-genre ekphraseis of Swensen's sixth full-length collection since 1984....

TROUBLED LOVERS IN HISTORY.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Albert Goldbarth. Ohio State Univ., paper $18.95 ISBN 0-8142-5015-7; cloth $27.95 -0813; Goldbarth's wackily polymathic exuberance now confronts his scariest foes yet: human separateness, divorce, the parts of the psyche that split...

DAILIES & RUSHES.(Review)
February 22, 1999... Susan Kinsolving. Grove/Atlantic, $12 paper (l12p) ISBN 0-8021-3605-2 Like prints rushed to the screening room, the poems of Kinsolving's debut hit simultaneous notes of specificity and vagueness, as if the rest of the story remains to...

THE PARADISE OF FORMS: New and Selected Poems.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Aaron Shurin. Talisman [LPC Group/InBook, dist.], $14.95 (I44p) ISBN 1-883689-81-3 At this point, the principal legacy of 1960s "free verse" may be a myopic identification of formalism with conservatism-as though constraint were...

LATER AUDEN.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Edward Mendelson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30 (496p) ISBN 0-374-18408-9 This mammoth, accessible study ties the life of major English poet W.H. Auden to his ideas, and both to his poetry. Mendelson--a Columbia University professor who...

FEELING AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: The Good Strangeness of Poetry.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... Alice Fulton. Graywolf, $15 paper (320p) ISBN 1-55597-286-1 After four books of inventively friendly poems, Fulton (Sensual Math) collects 15 years of eclectic essays in this first gathering of her prose. Fulton (who teaches at the...

ANTHOPHILIA.(Review)(Brief Article)
February 22, 1999... While Three Centuries of American Poetry 1623-1923 covers its intended odd swath, pride of place--two thirds or so of the volume--is given over to familiar 19th-century verse. Edited by noted poet and translator Alan Mandelbaum (Ovid's...

MARCH COLLECTIONS.
February 22, 1999... In Elegy for the Southern Drawl'S long title poem, Rodney Jones laments several dialects "Low-country mushmouth; mountain twang/ the almost r-less talk of merchant planters,/ Droned out and of a lazy kinship to the sleek,/ Ambidextrous...