Publishers Weekly articles from February 2010

Publishers Weekly archives from February 2010

Google settlement gets its day in court: Google parties offer rebuttals to a long list of objections.
February 22, 2010... Before he began his remarks, Authors Guild attorney Michael Boni, being from Philadelphia, said he felt a little like local hero Rocky "being beaten about the head and face for 15 rounds." But like Rocky, he added, he hoped to come back. It was...

Numbers down, but spirits up, at toy fair.(Licensing)
February 22, 2010... The number of publishers exhibiting at Toy Fair continues to decline, with fewer than 25 of the 1,100 booths at the show featuring publishing houses this year, versus about 30 last year and 40 to 45 five years ago. Bargain book vendors and...

Fuzzy math.(Deals)(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... T.J. Kelleher at Perseus bought, at auction, James Stein's Cosmic Numbers. Agent Jodie Rhodes brokered the deal--Kelleher bought world rights, save Japanese and Korean translation rights, which Rhodes held onto--for a book that explores the...

'Don't Know Much' scribe moves houses.(Deals)(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Hyperion has inked a deal with historian Kenneth C. Davis for two new titles in his bestselling Don't Know Much About series, which has long been published by HarperCollins. Editor Elisabeth Dyssegaard acquired U.S., Canadian, and nonexclusive...

Shannon closes on Prose & Smith.(Deals)(Denise Shannon)(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Agent Denise Shannon just closed two deals, one for film and another for print. Shannon, working with Bob Bookman at CAA, sold an option on the film rights to Francine Prose's recent novel, Goldengrove (Harper, 2008), to director Sophia Coppola....

Diamond day.(Deals)(The Game)(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... After a four-day auction featuring six other bidders, Harper's David Hirshey won North American rights to a book about the longest game in baseball history (33 innings) by New York Times columnist Dan Barry. In The Game, Barry writes about the...

Adam Wilson at Mira Books acquired two psychological romantic thrillers by Andrea Kane.(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Adam Wilson at Mira Books acquired two psychological romantic thrillers by Andrea Kane. Andrea Cirillo and Christina Hogrebe at Jane Rotrosen brokered the deal; in the books, a team of investigators work in and out of the bounds of the law to...

Momofuku restaurant group pastry chef Christina Tosi sold Momofuku Milk Bar to Clarkson Potter's Rica Allannic, who bought world rights in a pre-empt.(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Momofuku restaurant group pastry chef Christina Tosi sold Momofuku Milk Bar to Clarkson Potter's Rica Allannic, who bought world rights in a pre-empt. Kim Witherspoon at Inkwell Management brokered the deal for the cookbook, which features 100...

Lee, DiDio named copublishers of DC Comics.(Jim Lee and Dan DiDio )(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Acclaimed artist Jim Lee and DC senior v-p Dan DiDio have been named copublishers of DC Comics. In addition, best-selling comics writer Geoff Johns was named chief creative officer; John Rood was named executive v-p sales and marketing, and...

B&T, Author Solutions in POD deal.(Baker & Taylor's print on demand)(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... TextStream, Baker & Taylor's POD and short-run unit, will provide print services for authors using the self-publishing house Author Solutions.

Yaged leaves Disney.(Jonathan Yaged)(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Jonathan Yaged, vp and U.S. publisher of the Disney Book Group, has left the company to become CO0 of House Party, a marketing company.

First Second to pub Iranian graphic novel.( Zahra's Paradise)(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Macmillan's graphic novel imprint, First Second, will launch Zahra's Paradise, an Iranian graphic novel focused on current social issues. Zahra's Paradise began as a Web comic last week and will be published as a book collection in 2011.

Penguin digital catalogues.(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Penguin will begin offering digital catalogues in late March in addition to its hard-copy catalogues.

New model for Five Stones Press.(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Mystery writer David Fulmer and three business partners have started Five Stones Press, in Atlanta, Ga., to reprint Fulmer's novel, The Fall, by selling 100 shares to 32 of the author's friends. The book will be published in March.

FableVision teams with Pippin.(Pippin Properties )(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Boston-based FableVision has signed with children's literary agency Pippin Properties to manage Fablevision's traditional and transmedia projects.

Braces galore.(Raina Telgemeier's Smile )(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cartoonist Raina Telgemeier signs copies of her teeth-focused graphic memoir, Smile (Scholastic) for young fans at Rocketship in Brooklyn.

Kimani Press offers fantasy fulfillment.(Black Romance)
February 22, 2010... Publishing more than 80 books a year across four imprints, Kimani Press, with offices in the historic Woolworth Building in lower Manhattan, is something of a house within a house. The African-American publishing division of romance publisher...

No store rebound in 2009.(Disappointing)(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Following a difficult 2008 in which the recession resulted in a 1.8% decline in bookstore sales, publishers and booksellers were looking for a rebound in 2009. Instead, sales fell again, dropping 0.8%, to $16.60 billion, their lowest level since...

Text sales, earnings off at S&S.(Earnings Report)(Simon & Schuster )
February 22, 2010... With all of its international subsidiaries posting gains in the year, the 7% decline in revenue at Simon & Schuster in 2009 was due entirely to its domestic businesses, CEO Carolyn Reidy said in an interview Thursday evening. Sales at the...

Crowe to PTA.(People)(Anna Crowe joins Planned Television Arts)(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Anna Crowe has been named senior publicist at Planned Television Arts. She was previously at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Random House's Bantam Dell imprint.

Kheradi to RH.(People)( Random House ups Cyrus Kheradi)(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Cyrus Kheradi has been named senior v-p and director of international sales and marketing at Random House. Kheradi, who will start at RH on March 12, was most recently at Simon & Schuster, as v-p and group director of international sales....

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
February 22, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Collins's plethora of interviews includes The View, HLN's Joy Behar Show, Hannity, the Wendy Williams Show, Chelsea Lately Bravo's Watch What Happens Live, the Bonnie Hunt Show, Extra! and lots more. How's this for a...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
February 22, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jenny Sanford, book critic. During a February 16 Chicago Tribune interview, Sanford dished on other current bestsellers. Of PW's #1 and #2 nonfiction titles, she said, "Politics don't interest me, and I have no interest...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
February 22, 2010... With 150,000 copies in print, Frost's First Drop launches her Night Huntress series. According to the author's press material, "Although not a vampire herself, she confesses to having pale skin, wearing a lot of black, and sleeping in late...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
February 22, 2010... "Her true heart, however, was buried so far inside her, so gone beneath the vast blanket of her lies and deceptions and whims.... She had no way of knowing, of course, whether this heart she imagined herself to have was, in fact, real in any...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
February 22, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Exclusively available on (and written for) Amazon Kindle, King's latest even features the Kindle as an integral plot device. King is sanguine on e-readers, saying at the Kindle 2.0 launch, "Yes, MP3s and iTunes...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
February 22, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hachette Audio's Megan Fitzpatrick tells PW that for Malcolm Gladwell, who's read his three previous books, "recording What the Dog Saw was old hat. Disregarding what must have beets pain rid jet lag, he arrived in...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.(Peter Lerangis and J.K. Rowling )
February 22, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Peter Lerangis, author of The Viper's Nest, book seven in The 39 Clues, recently appeared on Sirius XM Radio Kids Place Live to promote it. The guest host who interviewed Lerangis was a nine-year-old fan of the series,...

Field sales rep dilemma: diminished numbers disturb some booksellers.(Retail Nation)
February 22, 2010... Simon & Schuster's decision in January to eliminate half of its field sales rep positions and replace them with telemarketers has not been well received by independent booksellers, who see the move as another indication of their lack of...

Slush pile queen: unsolicited works have always been integral to the publishing business.(Cover story)
February 22, 2010... In 1985, when I was still a fledgling agent, I signed a writer from Chicago named David Grafton. He'd sent an eye-popping, unsolicited letter about his relationship with the late, great composer Cole Porter, and he spun fabulous tales about his...

And the winner is ... the Amazon Breakthrough Novelist Award.(Erica Eisdorfer)(Brief article)
February 22, 2010... Erica Eisdorfer, a finalist in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, didn't win--but she got a book contract anyway. "I started getting calls from agents," she told PW, "sort of one after the other." Discovered after an excerpt of...

The staggering work of publishing genius.(Adam Robinson)
February 22, 2010... In the January/February issue of Mother Jones magazine, Ted Genoways, editor of the venerable literary journal the Virginia Quarterly Review, laments the impending "death of fiction," and suggests its cause: too many publication outlets, and too...

Spring religion.(Bibliography)
February 22, 2010... A quiet season features a few big names (Sylvia Browne, the Dalai Lama, Mother Angelica), titles aimed at older adults (aka aging baby boomers), a study of the controversial Pat Robertson (from Wm. B. Eerdmans), and a gut (good) helping of Amish...

Silver linings.(Author Profile)(Marisa Silver)
February 22, 2010... Marisa Silver's new collection of short stories, Alone with You, is being published in April by Atria and she's justifiably excited. Along with giving readings in New York and Los Angeles, she's signed up to participate in...

In My Father's House.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... In My Father's House E. Lynn Harris. St. Martin's, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-54191-0 Before he died last year, Harris wrote this bangup first installment to a projected series about a bisexual owner of a Miami modeling agency. Bentley...

American Music.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... American Music Jane Mendelsohn. Knopf, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-27266-9 This digressive novel by the author of I Was Amelia Earhart probes intersecting tales that emerge from the work done by a masseuse-cum-shaman. Honor is a...

The Seven Year Bitch.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... The Seven Year Bitch Jennifer Belle. Riverhead, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59448-755-2 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Welcome to not-so-happily-ever-after. Soon-to-be-40 Izzy just lost her Wall Street job, has a husband who runs a struggling...

Starfishing.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Starfishing Nicola Monaghan. Scribner, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8906-8 In her abysmal second novel, Monaghan (The Killing Jar) delves into the manic, drug-fueled world of late 1990s English finance. Ambitious Frankie Cavanagh gets a job...

Beatrice and Virgil.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Beatrice and Virgil Yann Martel. Random/Spiegel & Grau, $23 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6926-2 Megaselling Life of Pi author Martel addresses, in this clunky metanarrative, the violent legacy of the 20th century with an alter ego: Henry...

Alone with You: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... * Alone with You: Stories Marisa Silver. Simon & Schuster, $22 (172p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9029-3 Unwellness is woven through these eight beautiful and brutal stories from Silver (The God of War), who gives readers finely wrought slivers of...

Eight Days to Live.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Eight Days to Live Iris Johansen. St. Martin's, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-36815-9 Having injected vampires into 2009's Blood Game, the previous Eve Duncan forensics thriller, bestseller Johansen introduces cryptotheology--the madeup...

Infamous.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Infamous Ace Atkins. Putnam, $25.95 (416p) ISBN 9780-399-15630-4 Set in 1933, Atkins's winning fourth history-based novel focuses on two figures who, as the author explains in an introduction, have been undeservedly "lost in the shuffle of...

Elegy for April.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... * Elegy for April Benjamin Black. Holt, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-08050-9091-8 Black's engrossing third crime thriller set in 1950s Dublin (after The Silver Swan) finds pathologist Garret Quirke fresh from a stint in alcohol rehab. Quirke...

If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This Robin Black. Random, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-14000-6857-9 The stories in Black's solid debut collection are fraught with loss, usually of a loved one. Evocative and lyrical, the characters' introspections,...

Seeing Stars.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Seeing Stars Diane Hammond. Harper, $13.99 paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-186315-8 Hammond (Hannah's Dream) explores the world of wannabe child stars in this taut if sometimes melodramatic novel. At the center is Ruth Rabinowitz, a naive but...

In Free Fall.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... In Free Fall Juli Zeh, trans. from the German by Christine Lo. Doubleday/Talese, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-52642-5 The theoretical physics concept known as the Many-Worlds Interpretation, in which "everything that is at all possible...

PW talks with Michael Harvey: second city sins.(Q&A)(Interview)
February 22, 2010... Ex-Chicago cop Michael Kelly pursues a nasty killer in Michael Harvey's crime thriller The Third Rail (Reviews, Feb. 1) Is there something about Chicago that makes it more corrupt than other big U.S. cities? If you ever watched the Chicago...

Haunt Me Still.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Haunt Me Still Jennifer Lee Carrell. Dutton, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-95077-6 Agreeing to direct Shakespeare's notoriously ill-starred "Scottish play" plunges scholar-sleuth Kate Stanley into a cauldron of trouble in this heady,...

Without Mercy.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... * Without Mercy Lisa Jackson. Kensington, $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2564-1 The murder of Julia "Jules" Farentino's father creates a bond with her younger half-sister, Shaylee Stillman in this juicy creep-a-thon from bestseller Jackson...

Small Change.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Small Change Sheila Roberts. St. Martin's/Griffin, $13.99 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-59447-3 The three friends in Roberts's (Angel Lane) light read are happily reminiscent of Sarah Strohmeyer's The Penny Pinchers Club. These Heart Lake,...

The Leopard's Wife.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... The Leopard's Wife Paul Pickering. Simon & Schuster, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6853-0 London Times columnist Pickering (Wild About Harry) sets his lackluster fifth novel amid the Congo civil war. British pianist Stanley "Smiles"...

Almost Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Almost Dead Assaf Gavron, trans. from the Hebrew by Gavron and James Lever. Harper Perennial, $14.99 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-198404-4 Israeli author Gavron offers an unusual perspective on Palestinian suicide bombings in this offbeat,...

The Last Time I Saw You.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... The Last Time I Saw You Elizabeth Berg. Random, $25 (256) ISBN 978-1-4000-6864-7 A high school reunion and all of its attendant dramas is the backdrop of Berg's rose-tinted latest (after Home Safe). For Dorothy Shauman, her 40th reunion is...

How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly Connie May Fowler. Grand Central, $21.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-446-54068-1 In this gloomy novel, Fowler (Before Women Had Wings) presents a day in the life of writer Clarissa Burden, stuck in a loveless...

Johnny Porno.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Johnny Porno Charlie Stella. Stark House (www.starkhousepress.com), $15.95 paper (340p) ISBN 978-1933586-29-8 Set in New York City in 1973, Stella's vibrant seventh crime novel catches the cadence and daily grind of organized crime grunts....

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott Kelly O'Connor McNees. Putnam/Amy Einhorn, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15652-6 McNees lightly imagines the life of Louisa May Alcott, whose Little Women has enjoyed generations-long success. The story...

Hello Kitty Must Die.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... * Hello Kitty Must Die Angela S. Choi. Tyrus (Consortium, dist.), $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-935562-03-0; $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-935562-02-3 Choi's scorching-hot debut rips into the stereotype of Hello Kitties, young Asian-American women...

Powder Necklace.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Powder Necklace Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. Washington Square, $15 paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-43912610-3 When her single mother "needs a break," London teenager Lila is sent to school in Ghana. Once at Dadaba Girls' Secondary School, Lila finds...

Between Friends.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Between Friends Kristy Kiernan. Berkley, $15 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-23347-4 Kiernan (Catching Genius) again demonstrates her ability to portray true-to-life relationships between women. Ali Gutierrez is mother to 15-year-old Letty...

Drift.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Drift Sharon Carter Rogers. S&S/Howard, $12.99 paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6653-3 Rogers's murky, downbeat supernatural thriller introduces Drifters, supernatural beings with cross marks in their eyes who become "tethered," that is,...

Dragon Games.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Dragon Games Stephen Mertz. Five Star, $25.95 (270p) ISBN 978-1-59414-8544 In this energetic if, at times, hokey thriller set at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, dastardly Dan Price, a private firm's security coordinator, plots a terrorist...

Dark Heart of the Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Dark Heart of the Night Leonora Miano, trans from the French by Tamsin Black. Univ. of Nebraska, $45 (156p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1567-2; $19.95 paper ISBN 978-0-8032-2823-8 Leaden prose and unimaginative detail weigh down this...

The Taste of Penny: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... * The Taste of Penny: Stories Jeff Parker. Dzanc (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-9825204-4-4 Ten dark, suspenseful, and tightly wound stories teeter on the edge of catastrophe and the surreal piecing-back-together of...

The Killing Edge.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... The Killing Edge Heather Graham. Mira, $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2771-4 In this captivating novel of paranormal romantic suspense from bestseller Graham (Deadly Gift), part-time model and psychologist Chloe Marin, a traumatized...

Symphony in White.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Symphony in White Adriana Lisboa, trans. from the Portuguese by Sarah Green. Texas Tech Univ., $26.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-89672-671-0 Winner of the 2003 Jose Saramago Prize, this riveting novel follows two sisters from their childhood in...

Stress Fracture.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Stress Fracture D.R Lyle. Medallion (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (394p) ISBN 9784-6054-2134-6 Lyle's routine serial killer thriller introduces crime scene and evidence analyst Dub Walker, a character indistinguishable from the leads of many other...

Homesick.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... * Homesick Eshkol Nevo, trans. from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston. Dalkey Archive, $15.95 paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-56478-582-4 In his second book in English translation, popular Israeli novelist Nevo pays tribute to the dynamism of his...

The Fallen.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... The Fallen Mark Terry. Oceanview (Midpoint, dist.), $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-933515-75-5 Fans of TV's Jack Bauer who place a premium on action may enjoy Terry's third novel featuring superhuman intelligence operative Derek Stillwater...

All About Eva.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... All About Eva Deidre Berry. Kensington/Dafina, $14 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3834-4 Living a VIP lifestyle on someone else's dime leads to eye-popping changes for a former New York beauty editor in Berry's hilarious...

The Logic of the World and Other Fictions.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... The Logic of the World and Other Fictions Robert Kelly. McPherson & Co., $24 (244p) ISBN 978-0-929701-89-9 An omnibus of short fiction by novelist, poet, and professor Kelly reworks classical myths and playfully original ideas in...

The People Who Watched Her Pass By.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... The People Who Watched Her Pass By Scott Bradfield. Two Dollar Radio (Consortium, dist.), $14.50 paper (148p) ISBN 978-09820151-5-5 Though Bradfield's fifth novel has the premise of a thriller or a dark psychological study, it flips...

Leaving Unknown.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Leaving Unknown Kerry Reichs. Avon, $13.99 paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-180813-5 In this easy but uneven read, Reichs (The Best Day of Someone Else's Life) spends 150 pages spinning her wheels with quirky, appealing characters before...

Floats Horse-floats or Horse-flows.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Floats Horse-floats or Horse-flows Leslie Scalapino. Starcherone (SPD, dist.), $18 paper (168p) ISBN 978-0-9788811-9-1 Once the reader ceases to wonder how acquainted Scalapino is with English and gives in to this amorphous text's rabbit...

Writing Jane Austen.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Writing Jane Austen Elizabeth Aston. Touchstone, $15 paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8787-3 When author Georgina Jackson, stalled after one chapter into her second book, is offered a lucrative opportunity by her agent to finish an incomplete...

The Founding.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... The Founding Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. Sourcebooks/Landmark, $14.99 paper (560p) ISBN 978-14022- 3815-4 Originally published in 1980, the powerful first entry in the Morland Dynasty series introduces 15th-century matriarch Eleanor Morland....

Chocolate Magic.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Chocolate Magic Zelda Benjamin. Avalon, $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8034-7752-0 Benjamin returns with this second entry to her Love by Chocolate series (Chocolate Secrets) with a run of the mill romance. Since accomplished chocolatier Chloe...

Shameless.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Shameless Karen Robards. S&S/Gallery, $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1061-8 In the long-awaited conclusion to the Banning Sisters trilogy (after Irresistible), Robards reaffirms her skill for addictive Regency romance. In 1817 London,...

Rooms.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Rooms James Rubart. B&H, $14.99 paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-8054-4888-7 Debut author and professional marketer Rubart has created a suspenseful tale in the vein of Ted Dekker's House, in which inexplicable happenings take over and direct a...

Shahid Reads His Own Palm.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts. Alice James (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978- 1882295-81-4 Betts's debut begins and ends with a ghazal. The strictness of this traditional Arabic form (a favorite of the late...

Nox.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... * Nox Anne Carson. New Directions, $29.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1870-2 In order to discuss Carson's latest work--a foldout, Jacob's ladder collage of letters, photographs, and poetry, all housed in a beautiful box--one must first address...

The Irrationalist.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... The Irrationalist Suzanne Buffam. Canarium (SPD, dist.), $14 (104p) ISBN 978-0-9822376-3-2 Prosy and conversational, Buffam's poetry is full of heavy thought and dark humor, asking, "can worth be conferred/ on a less than epic urge?" She...

The Common Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... The Common Man Maurice Manning. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22 (112p) ISBN 978-0-547-24961-2 This fourth book by Yale Younger Poet's Prize-winner Manning is, like his previous books, a unified sequence, though this one takes an...

Writing the Silences.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Writing the Silences Richard O. Moore, edited by Brenda Hillman and Paul Ebenkamp. Univ. of California, $50 (118p) ISBN 978-0-520-26243-0; $19.95 paper ISBN 978-0-520-26244-7 Almost 60 years of thoughtful, terse, decidedly modernist verse...

Breach.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 22, 2010... Breach Nicole Cooley. Louisiana State, $17.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8071-3584-6 Cooley's mother and father, who lived in New Orleans, proved unable or unwilling to evacuate when Hurricane Katrina hit. They and their house survived, but the...