Publishers Weekly articles from June 2006

Publishers Weekly archives from June 2006

More booksellers turn to publishing: new sideline: print on demand.(The Troy Book Makers)
June 5, 2006... Forget gifts and cards. In a time of flattening sales, longtime booksellers Eric Wilska, owner of the Bookloft in Great Barrington, Mass., and Susan Novotny, owner of the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, N.Y., have found what could be...

Hachette launches SF imprint.(Hachette Book Group USA, science fiction)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Orbit is the name of the new science fiction and fantasy imprint to be started by Hachette Book Group USA next year. Tim Holman, publishing director of Little, Brown Book Group's Orbit imprint in the U.K., will move to New York to oversee the...

Joint Norton, workman sales unit.(Norton Publishing Co., Workman Publishing Co.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Norton and Workman have created a three-person field sales force that will sell both independent publishers' titles in the Southeast. Michael Levatino, Gail Whitten and Bill Verner will begin by selling the publishers' fall list.

Taschen to open N.Y.C. store.(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Art book publisher Taschen will open a store in New York City's SoHo section in September. This is the third retail venture for the international publisher; Taschen opened stores in Paris in 2001 and in Beverly Hills in 2003. The New York store...

Literary recount.(Foreword)
June 5, 2006... For every action, there is a reaction. Who said that? Einstein? Newton? Britney Spears? Never mind, because this week, the National Book Critics Circle proved the adage by releasing its response to the recent New York Times Book Review...

Layoffs at CPM.(Central Park Media Corp.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Citing lingering economic effects from the Musicland bankruptcy, anime distributor and manga publishing house Central Park Media laid off an undetermined number of staff last week, prompting rumors about the future of the company. CPM director...

HM gets behind 'Chew'.(Houghton Mifflin Co., 'Chew on This')(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... After several groups with ties to the fast food industry attacked Houghton Mifflin's children's title Chew on This--a May adaptation of the house's 2001 bestseller Fast Food Nation--the house and authors Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson are...

Jake Reiss, owner Alabama Booksmith, Birmingham, Ala.(GALLEY TALK)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... One of the most frequently asked questions around here is, "What makes a great author?" and our standard reply is that it helps to be born in Monroeville, Alabama. This tiny hamlet and its surrounding area have produced Harper Lee, Hank...

Nolo covers the Basics.(Nolo Press/Folklaw Inc., rebranding)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... When Nolo Press conducted market research a while back, it found that consumers did not always see its books the way the company did: as trustworthy and approachable legal guides. Two years and "hundreds of thousands" of dollars later, Nolo CEO...

Correction.(Correction notice)
June 5, 2006... The June on-sale calendar (PW, May 8) listed The Girl of Lost Things by Ann Brashares; the book has been postponed until 2007; it will have a new title.

Passing the wand.
June 5, 2006... Barbara O'Grady (l.), new owner of the Adventures for Kids bookstore in Ventura, Calif., takes the magic wand of bookselling from former owner Jody Fickes Shapiro.

Johansen to St. Martin's.(Iris Johansen, St. Martin's Press Inc.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Iris Johansen, who has had 16 consecutive New York Times bestsellers, most recently On the Run and Countdown, is moving from Bantam to St. Martin's in a multimillion-dollar, eight-book deal negotiated by Andrea Cirillo of the Jane Rotrosen...

Heart of the matter.(Da Capo Press acquire rights to Katherine Kastan and Steve McKee's books)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Da Capo's Marnie Cochran has acquired world rights in a best-bids auction to Katherine Kastan's From the Heart: A Healing Program for Living Well with Heart Disease, a Woman's Guide from Joelle Delbourgo at Joelle Delbourgo Associates. Based on...

Outdoors for Glusman.(Harmony Books's John Glusman acquire rights to Bill Schutt's book)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Harmony's John Glusman has acquired zoologist Bill Schutt's Dark Banquet: The Curious Lives of Blood Feeding Creatures, which explores the world of sanguivores, in a world rights deal with agent Elaine Markson; publication is set for fall 2008....

Bewitching Dutton.(Dutton's Brentwood Books acquire rights for book from Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents Inc.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Dutton's Julie Doughty has acquired North American rights to Natasha Mostert's Season of the Witch from Gelfman Schneider's Deborah Schneider. This novel of supernatural suspense follows two sisters who practice alchemy and the love triangle...

Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich has sold a new novel by David Morrell, Scavenger, again to Roger Cooper at CDS Books, an imprint of the Perseus Books Group.(The Briefing)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich has sold a new novel by David Morrell, Scavenger, again to Roger Cooper at CDS Books, an imprint of the Perseus Books Group. CDS published Morrell's most recent thriller, Creepers, in 2005. In keeping with the...

Regal's Lauren Schott Pearson sold Los Angeles Times entertainment reporter Mary McNamara's first novel, Oscar Season, to Kerri Kolen at S&S, who took world English rights.(The Briefing)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Regal's Lauren Schott Pearson sold Los Angeles Times entertainment reporter Mary McNamara's first novel, Oscar Season, to Kerri Kolen at S&S, who took world English rights. Set at a fictitious L.A. hotel in the weeks leading up to the Academy...

Bruce Tracy and Adam Korn at Ballantine have acquired football great Jerry Rice's The Fifth Quarter.(Ballantine Books Inc.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Bruce Tracy and Adam Korn at Ballantine have acquired football great Jerry Rice's The Fifth Quarter, in which Rice will use stories from his own career to offer strategies and philosophies for facing challenges head-on; agent Jillian Manus sold...

Calendar: June 11-17.
June 5, 2006... 6/11 The U.S. bans D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover today in 1959. The ban is lifted nine months later. The 1928 novel wasn't printed in the U.K. until 1960. 6/12 Boston PI Sunny Randall returns for her fifth adventure in...

Taunton's deals.(Taunton Press Inc. signs partnership deals with Scripps Howard Inc. and National Trust for Historic Preservation)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Taunton Press has struck two deals in recent weeks that will tie the home improvement publisher to two well-known partners. In the first agreement, Taunton has signed a long-term partnership with Scripps Howard that will result in Taunton...

Industry stocks: may performances.(Market Watch)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... May was a down month for both the Publishers Weekly Stock Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The PWSI fell 4.5% as the stock prices of 16 companies fell, while prices rose at only five. Hastings Entertainment posted the biggest gain as...

Never forget.(holocaust-related books)(Table)
June 5, 2006... Never Forget This fall brings a new trend in Holocaust-related books: works by children of survivors about their parents' and relatives' experiences. Two make nods to Art Spiegelman's seminal graphic memoir, Maus; another has...

Clement tops Soundview.(Soundview Executive Book Summaries appoints Rebecca Clement)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Rebecca Clement has been appointed publisher of Soundview Executive Book Summaries, a Pennsylvania-based company that produces condensed summaries of business books.

Weese joins Island Press.(Brian Weese appointed)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Brian Weese has been named director of sales and marketing at Island Press. Weese was most recently head of bookselling operations for the Society of Human Resource Management.

Chronicle expands.(Chronicle Books appoints Liz Rockhold, David Cunningham, Joseph Ternes, Patricia Quill, Mark Boorstein and Liza Algar)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Chronicle Books has made a number of new hires in its sales and marketing department. Liz Rockhold has been named senior sales manager in special markets; David Cunningham joins as national accounts manager; Joseph Ternes comes on as director...

Delays on the POD subsidy express.(Litigation Blues)(print-on-demand, iUniverse Inc. files case against AuthorHouse and Booksurge L.L.C.)
June 5, 2006... The rash of recent lawsuits filed against online subsidy publishers will make such companies a little more vigilant about their screening processes, but is unlikely to curtail the growth of the industry, iUniverse president Susan Driscoll...

Fischer-Harbage to Vigliano.(Vigliano Associates appoints Ryan Fischer-Harbage)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Ryan Fischer-Harbage has joined Vigliano Associates as an agent. Most recently an editor at Simon Spotlight Entertainment, Fischer-Harbage has previously held posts at Plume and Little, Brown. He's worked on such titles as Peter Singer's...

Llosa, Friedman join Collins.(HarperCollins' Collins Business appoints Genoveva Llosa, Ethan Friedman)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Genoveva Llosa and Ethan Friedman have both joined HarperCollins' Collins Business imprint. Llosa, who was most recently an assistant editor at Crown, has been named associate editor. Friedman, who's decamping from his position as an editor at...

Xanax, anyone?(Gersh Agency shops Jane Heller's Some Nerve )(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... When the Gersh Agency's Amy Schiffman begins shopping Jane Heller's Some Nerve (coming from Morrow in September) to a select list of actresses this week, she's hoping to get their attention with a prescription bottle of (fake) Xanax--in honor...

Murderers only.(HOLLYWOOD READER)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Ever since Jack the Ripper terrorized Victorian-era London, the Brits have generated their share of fictional murderers. The newest addition to that merry band? The anonymous narrator of Jeff Povey's debut novel, The Serial Killers Club, out...

A pair of projects targets the gritty side of Greek life on campus.(Red Wagon Entertainment taps Andrew Jay Cohen)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... A pair of projects targets the gritty side of Greek life on campus. Andrew Jay Cohen, an ex-assistant of Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin), and Brendan O'Brien have been tapped to adapt Will Clarke's The Worthy: A Ghost's Story (S&S, July)...

Herbie: Fully Loaded director Angela Robinson will spearhead Paramount's Pledged, an adaptation of Alexandra Robbins's nonfiction book of the same name, about the sordid world of sororities.(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Herbie: Fully Loaded director Angela Robinson will spearhead Paramount's Pledged, an adaptation of Alexandra Robbins's nonfiction book of the same name, about the sordid world of sororities. Jill Soloway (Six Feet Under) penned the adaptation....

Obituary: Daniel Lundy.(Foreword)(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Industry veteran Daniel T. Lundy passed away in New York City on May 29 after losing his battle with lung cancer. Lundy, who was 51, was a respected member of the academic publishing world and spent the last years of his career at Penguin...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
June 5, 2006... Cornwell's latest bestseller lands in the #1 slot with 680,300 copies in print. At Risk was initially written as a 15-part serial in the New York Times Magazine, and although it showcases various kinds of forensic science, this story is more...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
June 5, 2006... Despite his very public persona for the last 15 years, including anchoring CNN's prime-time evening news show, Anderson Cooper notes in his blog that "writing my book has been a very difficult process for me. It feels strange to have it enter...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
June 5, 2006... Dan Brown's bestseller stats are soaring. All his backlist titles moved up in both rankings and printings. Pocket brought out its two Brown books--Angels & Demons and Deception Point--in premium $9.99 editions with new jackets. Also, Variety...

Paperback bestseller/trade.
June 5, 2006... After Oprah's two hours (over two days) about her 55th book club pick, Elie Wiesel's Night goes back to the #1 spot, unseating The Da Vinci Code--which goes to show a very good TV special trumps a not-so-good movie. Sue Monk Kidd and her...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
June 5, 2006... South African-born Lisette Lecat is a familiar voice to fans of African literature and history. Besides her numerous recordings of Alexander McCall Smith's works, she's also narrated Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and several audiobooks by...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
June 5, 2006... What draws more than 35,000 faithful to Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston each week? "I don't know if it's one thing but I know something that they tell us... the message is hopeful, it's positive, it's a celebration. They leave feeling...

Bring out your undead: the children of Lestat.(Cover story)
June 5, 2006... When Anne Rice sold the manuscript of her first novel to Knopf more than 30 years ago, the protagonist was a man named Louis who discovers a lost child. A mysterious figure named Lestat is introduced, only to die by fire. However, in the...

Family history in pictures and prose.(Biography)
June 5, 2006... Alison Bechdel is something of a packrat. You wouldn't immediately recognize it walking into her small and tidy A-frame home in Vermont, but if you venture downstairs to her studio, you'll find piles of memorabilia. Bechdel, who's distinguished...

Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman PAMELA AIDAN. Touchstone, $14 paper (304p) ISBN 0-7432-9136-0 The second installment in Aidan's Fitzwilliam Darcy trilogy has the Pride and Prejudice hero wrestling with his...

The Translator.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... The Translator LEILA ABOULELA. Grove/Black Cat, $13 (208p) ISBN 0-8021-7026-9 Sammar, a young Sudanese widow, is working as a translator in a Scottish university when love blossoms between herself and her Scottish supervisor, Rae Isles, a...

Harlem Girl Lost.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Harlem Girl Lost TREASURE E. BLUE. Ballantine/One World, $12.95 paper (352p) ISBN 0345-49264-1 This lurid urban soap opera--which sold 65,000 copies when originally self-published by the author, a Bronx fire inspector--follows Silver Jones...

Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story RACHEL KADISH. Houghton Mifflin, $24 (336p) ISBN 0-618-54669-3 Tracy Farber, a 33-year-old not-yet-tenured English professor at an unnamed New York City university, works to subvert Tolstoy's famous statement...

Dream Wheels.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Dream Wheels RICHARD WAGAMESE. St. Martin's, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-312-35926-8 Wagamese (Keeper N' Me) threads Native Canadian lore and spirituality into his generous and sentimental Western. Rodeo bull rider Joe Willie Wolfchild, eight...

The Littlest Hitler: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... The Littlest Hitler: Stories RYAN BOUDINOT. Counterpoint, $22 (288p) ISBN 1-58243-357-7 Boudinot proves himself a twisted, formidable storyteller in his dark and surefooted debut. In the title story, fourth-grader Davy, with his father's...

The Brushstroke Legacy.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... The Brushstroke Legacy LAURAINE SNELLING. WaterBrook, $13.99 paper (384p) ISBN 1-57856-789-0 Snelling (Saturday Morning; The Healing Quilt), known for her inspirational romance novels, sets this story largely in North Dakota. Ragni, a...

The Buddha and the Terrorist.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... The Buddha and the Terrorist SATISH KUMAR. Algonquin, $14.95 (144p) ISBN 1-56512-520-7 Kumar (You Are, Therefore I Am) neatly reworks an ancient allegory of Buddha's conversion of a bloodthirsty killer. In the northern Indian city of...

Topical crimes: Laura Lippman has won Edgar, Shamus, Agatha and Anthony awards for her Tess Monaghan crime series, the latest of which is No Good Deeds (Reviews, May 15).(PW Talks with Laura Lippman)(Interview)
June 5, 2006... At once aspiring and decaying, Main Street U.S.A. and urban melting pot, "Smalltimore" emerges vividly in No GoodDeeds. Was Baltimore the story's inspiration? I started writing the Tess Monaghan books in part because I'm fascinated by my...

The Floor of the Sky.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... The Floor of the Sky PAMELA CARTER JOERN. Univ. of Nebraska, $16.95 paper (256p) ISBN 0-8032-7631-1 Toby Jenkins, now 72, has been living all her life in the same ornate Sears, Roebuck farmhouse in the Nebraska Sandhills her father bought...

Dark and Light: A Love Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Dark and Light: A Love Story MICHAEL LASER. Permanent, $26 (232p) ISBN 1-57962-132-5 Grim joyless and mostly friendless, Edmund Naughton is a white divorce who buries himself in his work as a computer programmer and lives a solitary life...

Cruising.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Cruising DESIREE DAY. Pocket, $14 paper (384p) ISBN 0-7434-0351-X Day (Crazy Love) follows the tribulations of four stressed-out female friends from Atlanta who take a two-week Caribbean cruise and, to complement the sweet seaboard life...

The Scar of David.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... The Scar of David SUSAN ABULHAWA. New South (newsouthbooks.com), $27.95 (320p) ISBN 1-58838-198-6 Abulhawa's first novel is an earnest but heavy-handed depiction of the 20th century through Palestinian eyes. The book opens in the Arab...

Mozart's Sister.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Mozart's Sister NANCY MOSER. Bethany, $12.99 paper (320p) ISBN 0-7642-0123-9 In the shadow of her famous sibling, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, older sister Nannerl was perhaps no less talented but devoid of the opportunities of the time...

Helen of Troy: A Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... * Helen of Troy: A Novel MARGARET GEORGE. Viking, $27.95 (624p) ISBN 0-670-03778-8 George (Mary, Called Magdalene) depicts with bravado, grace and eloquence the grand spectacle surrounding Helen of Troy. The author's research into...

Mask Market: A Burke Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Mask Market: A Burke Novel ANDREW VACHSS. Pantheon, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 0-375-42422-9 Hard-boiled crime fans will enjoy the latest entry in Vachss's long-running Burke series (Down Here, etc.). The renegade New York City PI, who operates by...

Three Days to Never.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... * Three Days to Never TIM POWERS. Morrow, $24.95 (416p) ISBN 0-380-97653-6 Powers (Declare) delivers another topnotch supernatural spy thriller. When Frank Marrity's grandmother dies unexpectedly during 1987's New Age Harmonic Convergence,...

Burn.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Burn BLACK ARTEMIS. NAL, $13.95 paper (336p) ISBN 0-451-21857-4 A feisty young Latina, Jasmine Reyes, abandoned by her drug-addled parents as a teen, is mourning the prison suicide of her gifted twin, Jason. She runs her struggling bail...

Smonk.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Smonk TOM FRANKLIN. Morrow, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 0-06-084681-X E.O. Smonk is an ugly, unwashed, murdering rapist who has terrorized the small town of Old Texas, Ala., for years. In 1911, the town summons Smonk to stand trial, and a nonstop...

The Second Horseman.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... The Second Horseman KYLE MILLS. St. Martin's, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-312-33575-X At the start of this strong thriller from bestseller Mills (Fade), career criminal Brandon Vale is in prison for a failed diamond theft when Richard Scanlon, an...

Under Cloak of Darkness: The Story of John Apparite.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Under Cloak of Darkness: The Story of John Apparite I. MICHAEL KOONTZ. Five Star, $25.95 (347p) ISBN 1-59414-431-1 Turf wars among Washington's multitudinous spy agencies are nothing new, as shown by Koontz's debut, a gripping 1950s Cold...

You Made Me Love You.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... You Made Me Love You JOANNA GOODMAN. NAL Accent, $13.95 paper (416p) ISBN 0-451-21853-1 The Zarr sisters are having a rough go of it: the oldest, Estelle, wants to make it as a movie director and to find a good man, but success eludes her...

The Grays.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... The Grays WHITLEY STRIEBER. Tor, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-765-31389-8 Fact into fiction? In bestseller Strieber's engrossing thriller, which draws heavily from Communion (1987), the author's controversial account of his personal contact with...

The Afghan.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... The Afghan FREDERICK FORSYTH. Putnam, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 0-399-15394-2 Set in the very near future, veteran Forsyth's latest isn't quite up to the level of The Day of the Jackal or his more recent Fist of God, but it's a cut above most...

In the Dark of the Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... In the Dark of the Night JOHN SAUL. Ballantine, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 0-345-48701-X At the start of this unoriginal but undeniably creepy horror chiller from bestseller Saul (Perfect Nightmare), Eric Brewster and two high school pals, Kent...

Resurrection.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Resurrection TUCKER MALARKEY. Riverhead, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 1-59448-919-X A temperate entry in the rapidly overheating Da Vinci Code sweepstakes, Malarkey's second novel (following An Obvious Enchantment) illuminates the spiritual...

God Don't Play.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... God Don't Play MARY MONROE. Kensington, $24 (320p) ISBN 0-7582-0346-2 In this third novel in Monroe's bestselling God Don't series, Annette Goode finally has it all: a sexy husband who adores her, a beautiful young daughter, a comfy house,...

The Begotten: A Novel of the Gifted.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... The Begotten: A Novel of the Gifted LISA T. BERGREN. Berkley, $23.95 (384p) ISBN 0-425-21016-2 Bergren's experience as a Christian historical fiction author (God Gave Us You) serves her well in this religious thriller, the first of a...

Grace Period.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Grace Period GERALD W. HASLAM. Univ. of Nevada, $24.95 (300p) ISBN 0-87417-679-4 Sacramento journalist and lapsed Catholic, Martin Martinez has seen his once fulfilling life flame out: his son has died of AIDS, his marriage is over, his...

Cross My Heart.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Cross My Heart CARLY PHILLIPS. Harlequin, $19.95 (288p) ISBN 0-373-77126-6 Lilly Dumont, a presumed-dead heiress, has been living as successful New York working girl Lacey Kinkaid, but she must confront her small-town past in this...

Abide with Me: A Home Ties Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Abide with Me: A Home Ties Novel DELIA PARR. Steeple Hill, $13.95 paper (304p) ISBN 0-373-78569-0 Parr (A Place Called Trinity) leaves both St. Martin's and historical fiction with this novel, a mostly successful foray into contemporary...

Caroline's Journal.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Caroline's Journal KATHERINE STONE. Mira, $21.95 (320p) ISBN 0-7783-2331-5 Harrowing health problems and a dramatic murder trial collide in this convoluted novel that idealizes pregnancy and romantic love in equal measure. Caroline, forced...

The Pajamaist.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... * The Pajamaist MATTHEW ZAPRUDER. Copper Canyon, $15 (110p) ISBN 1-55659-244-2 Charming, melancholy, hip and at times hopeful, the 21 poems of Zapruder's second collection take on personal subjects and meditate on life in cities and towns,...

The Narrow Road to the Interior.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... The Narrow Road to the Interior KIMIKO HAHN. Norton, $23.95 (128p) ISBN 0-393-06189-2 A kind of poet's journal or miscellany, mixing verse with prose, considered ideas with spontaneous exclamations, notes to friends and even e-mails,...

Compass of Affection: Poems Selected and New.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Compass of Affection: Poems Selected and New SCOTT CAIRNSs. Paraclete, $24.50 (148p) ISBN 1-55725-503-2 Cairns's warm, calm, personal tones win him respect in many quarters, but his core audience comes from his subject matter: the...

Sakura Park.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Sakura Park RACHEL WETZSTEON. Persea, $16.50 (128p) ISBN 0-89255-324-3 In this accessible yet sinuous third collection, New York City's landscape becomes a subtle metaphor for a complex inner life in which hope makes room for despair and...

Take Me with You.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Take Me with You POLLY CLARK. Bloodaxe Books Ltd. (Dufour Editions, dist.), $21.95 ISBN 1-85224-722-3 Escape--from unhappy love relationships, bad situations and the claustrophobia of one's own identity--is the central theme of this darkly...

Telemachiad.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Telemachiad MICHAEL SCHARF. Sugarhigh! (SPD, dist.), $12 paper (64p) ISBN 0-9678031-9-5 Edgy, and inventive, PW reviews editor Scharf's poetry has been gaining attention in avant-garde circles for almost a decade, even though this is his...

Nocturne in Chrome and Sunset Yellow.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Nocturne in Chrome and Sunset Yellow TOBIAS HILL. Salt (Ingram, dist.), $14.95 (66p) ISBN 1-844-71262-1 In careful rhythms, the 21 poems of this British poet s fourth collect*on describe the "collision" of opposites that Londoners and...

My Psychic.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... My Psychic JAMES KIMBRELL. Sarabande, $13.95 paper (80p) ISBN 1-932511-25-3 Vaulting whimsy ornaments a fundamentally earnest storytelling sensibility in Kimbrell's delightful sophomore collection. Multipage poems with swiftly moving...

Cheerleader's Guide to the World: Council Book.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Cheerleader's Guide to the World: Council Book STACY DORIS. Roof (SPD, dist.), $12.95 paper (88p) ISBN 1-931824-18-5 If a football team composed of players from the Popul Vuh and The Tibetan Book of the Dead were forced into citizen ship...

Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... * Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers LIDIJA DIMKOVSKA, TRANS. FROM THE MACEDONIAN BY LJUBUCA ARSOVKA AND PEGGY REID. Ugly Duckling, $12 (120p) ISBN 1-933254-14-9 Sad, silly and fantastical: in her first poetry collection translated into...

Cipher/Civilian.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Cipher/Civilian LESLIE BUMSTEAD. Edge (SPD, dist.), $12 paper (96p) ISBN 1-890311-18-9 This disarmingly intimate account--rendered in fragmentary poetic sequences, neat couplets and prose blocks--of Bumstead's travels in northern...