Publishers Weekly articles from May 2006

Publishers Weekly archives from May 2006

Adapting the long tail to publishing: BISG seminar examines ways to sell less of more.(Book Industry Study Group)
May 1, 2006... The spread of the Internet has made more books available to more people than ever before. How to take advantage of that development was the theme of last week's BISG seminar, "How to Make Information Pay." "The Internet is the ultimate...

Courier buys creative homeowner.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Courier Corp. has acquired Creative Homeowner for $37 million. Creative had sales of $24 million in 2005. Courier entered the publishing market in 2000 with the purchase of Dover Publications and had publishing sales of $40 million last year.

Trump, Kiyosaki to self-pub.(Robert Kiyosaki, Donald Trump )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series, and Donald Trump are teaming up to write More Important Than Money, a book about investing that the duo will self-publish under Kiyosaki's Rich Press imprint. The new book is set for...

Avalon signs 'purple' title.(Avalon Publishing Group Inc., 'The Color Purple: A Memory Book')(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Avalon Publishing Group has acquired the rights to the companion book to the hit Broadway musical The Color Purple. With a foreword by Oprah Winfrey, The Color Purple: A Memory Book will be released in October with a 65,000-copy printing.

Kaavyat emptor?(Kaavya Viswanathan)
May 1, 2006... I don't know and, to tell you the truth, I don't particularly care if Kaavya Viswanathan did or did not plagiarize YA author Megan McCafferty in her now-controversial debut novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life. It...

S&S starts strong.(Simon & Schuster Inc.'s net profit increases)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Revenue rose 14% at Simon & Schuster in this year's first quarter, to an estimated $185 million. Sales in the adult division increased 17%, while a rebound in the U.K. con tributed to a 21% increase in international sales. Children's group...

BAF overhaul.(Books Are Fun )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... In order to turn around the fortunes of its struggling Books Are Fun division, Reader's Digest is looking for a new president and marketing v-p and will exit noncore areas. The goal, RD executives said, is to return the display marketing unit's...

Feiwel & friends debut title.(Jean Feiwel will lauch children's imprint unit this fall)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Jean Feiwel is calling her new children's imprint at Holtzbrinck Feiwel & Friends and will launch the unit this fall, a year ahead of schedule. The early launch is the result of Feiwel's acquisition of the self-published On the Night You Were...

Amazon sales rise.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Sales in Amazon. com's North America media segment rose 17% in the first quarter, to $815 million. Company CFO Tom Szkurak said Amazon is "pleased" with the performance of all categories in its North America media group, which includes books,...

'Star Wars' POD fan fiction flap.('Star Wars: A New Hope', print-on-demand )
May 1, 2006... A copyright-infringing "fan fiction" novel set in the world of Star Wars that found its way to Amazon has created a storm in the science fiction community and led to questions about how print-on-demand books are listed on Amazon. Another...

Hastings by the numbers.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... $118 minion: Book sales in 2005 $119 million: Book sales in 2004 $117 million: Book sales in 2003 $134 million: Music sales in 2005 $135 million: Music sales in 2004 $132 million: Music sales in 2003 153: Total number of Hastings...

Basic restructures.(Basic Books Group )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Perseus's Basic Books Group has realigned some of its staff following the death of Liz Maguire. Jo Ann Miller, v-p and editorial director, will now share publisher duties with John Sherer, who's been promoted to associate publisher and...

Tokyopop Launches Teen Prose Line.(BookReporter.com )
May 1, 2006... This fall, manga publisher Tokyopop is introducing Pop Fiction, a line of original and licensed prose titles from around the world that the company hopes will expand its reach beyond the realm of manga and comics and into the YA fiction...

Bill Cusumano, buyer, Nicola's Books, Ann Arbor, Mich.(GALLEY TALK)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... If John Updike is not the finest living author in America, then he certainly ranks in the top three. Though some would confine him to a niche, he has consistently left suburbia in works such as The Coup, Brazil and Gertrude & Claudius, and he...

It's no mystery.(mystery writers awards)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... It's no mystery: Four of the top Edgar Award winners at the Mystery Writers of America's annual event, which celebrated its 60th anniversary April 27 at New York's Grand Hyatt Hotel. From left:Jeffrey Ford (Best Paperback Original, Girl in the...

From JFK to Watergate.(Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Paul Golob at Times Books has acquired North American rights to an untitled book by L. Patrick Gray III, who succeeded J. Edgar Hoover as FBI head in 1972, and who was forced to resign when he became ensnared in the Watergate coverup, Based...

Education solution.(Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Sarah Crichton has preempted Dr. Rudy Crew's You'll Be Called On: How We Can Demand the Best from Our Schools, Our Kids, and Ourselves for her imprint at FSG; David Kuhn at Kuhn Projects sold North American rights. Dr. Crew, the Miami-Dade...

St. Martin's Kitchen.(Deals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... John Parsley at Thomas Dunne Books has acquired North American rights to NPR contributor Gillian Clark's From My Kitchen Window from Michael Psaltis and Peter Steinberg at the Culinary Cooperative, a division of Regal Literary. This memoir...

Franklin lands in U.S.(Ariana Franklin)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Toronto agent Helen Heller has negotiated a seven-figure U.S. rights deal for Ariana Franklin's The Mistress of the Art of Death and its sequel, The Serpent in the Garden, with Putnam's Rachel Kahan. Sold in 11 territories at Frankfurt last...

Calendar: May 7-13.
May 1, 2006... 5/8 Penguin reissued Paul Gallico's Poseidon Adventure in time for the release of the 1972 film on DVD today and Wolfgang Petersen's $140million remake, Poseidon, on Friday. 5/9 John Sandford takes a break from his Lucas Davenport...

When two voices are better than one.(He Said, She Said)
May 1, 2006... Upon first glance it might seem that Jennifer Crusie, a prolific romance novelist whose credits include such titles as Faking It (2002) and Man Hunting (2001), would have little in common with former Green Beret and thriller writer Bob Mayer....

Van Dusen at Candlewick.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Hilary Breed Van Dusen has been named acquisitions editor at Candlewick Press. Van Dusen, who joined the company in October as a freelancer, will be working on many of the titles coming out of sister company Walker Books in the U.K.

Monti to Houghton.(People)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Joe Monti has joined Houghton Mifflin as national accounts manager of the Children's Book Group. In the newly created role, Monti will sell the house's titles to Barnes & Noble and Baker & Taylor. Mostly recently, Monti was a children's book...

Next chapter for Chapter 11.(Retailing)(Chapter 11 Discount Book Stores)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Six months after regional Georgia bookstore chain Chapter 11 filed for Chapter 11 protection, the company is still slugging, said chief bookseller Perry Tanner, whose family purchased the stores in 2002. Since seeking bankruptcy protection last...

Royal rumble.(Hollywood Reader)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... High school comedies are a dime a dozen in Hollywood, but a tale involving "dead people, naked people, fake people, teen sex, weird sex, drugs, ESP, Satanism, books, blood, bubble gum, guitars, monks, faith, love" and more? Bring it on! After...

My mom, the hero.(Hollywood Reader)(Confessions of Super Mom)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Birdie Lee, the single mother heroine of Melanie Lynne Hauser's Confessions of Super Morn (Dutton, 2005), can't scale walls or leap over skyscrapers, but she can sure wield a mean Brillo pad. After a "Horrible Swifter Accident" involving a...

Wachtel moving within HC.(People)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Claire Wachtel is moving imprints at HarperCollins, from William Morrow to Harper. Wachtel will take on the title senior v-p, executive editor, at the house's flagship imprint.

Chittenden to Morrow.(William Morrow and Company Inc. appoints Laurie Chittenden)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Laurie Chittenden is joining William Morrow as executive editor, beginning May 15. Decamping from her role as senior editor at Penguin's Dutton imprint, Chittenden has also worked at Simon & Schuster, Hyperion and Rizzoli Books.

Tor gets Garcia.(Tor Books appoints Patty Garcia)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Patty Garcia has been named senior publicist at Tor Books. Garcia was most recently at Routledge and NYU Press.

Promo, hire at Del Rey.(Del Rey Books promotes Dallas Middaugh and appoints Mutsumi Miyazaki )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Dallas Middaugh has been promoted from director of manga for Del Rey to associate publisher of Del Rey Manga. Middaugh, who was director of sales and marketing at Viz before joining Del Rey, will be relocating from Los Angeles to New York....

Literature in translation from the iPod generation.(International)
May 1, 2006... Novels in translation aren't typically published with high commercial hopes, but two recent European bestsellers with striking parallels may have a shot at hitting American lists this summer. Both are autobiographical novels written by women...

Potter to Cornell.(Cornell University Press appoints Peter J. Potter)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Peter J. Potter has joined Cornell University Press as editor-in-chief. A 20year veteran of scholarly publishing, Potter was most recently associate director and editor-in-chief at Penn State University Press.

Cook gets Dunham.(Cook Communications Ministries appoints Ryan Dunham)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Colorado-based Cook Communications Ministries has hired Ryan Dunham as senior v-p of sales. Dunham takes over the newly created position after more than 14 years in the sales department at Zondervan.

Lossius to Vista.(Vista International promotes George Lossius)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... George Lossius has been promoted to group chief executive officer at Vista International, a company that provides software solutions to the publishing industry. Lossius was previously managing director of applications & technology group.

Triad launches.(Triad Books launches its first imprint)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Not long after leaving Orion Pictures in the early '90s, where he was the marketing manager on such films as Babette's Feast and Wings of Desire, Laurie Lane-Zucker cofounded the Orion Society, publisher of Orion magazine, a publication devoted...

Delta blues & books.(Indie News)(Turnrow Book Co)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Jamie Kornegay's commendable job as events coordinator and frontlist buyer at Square Books in Oxford, Miss., caught the attention of the right person, and late last year he was invited to open a bookstore in the Delta town of Greenwood. ...

Correction.(Correction notice)
May 1, 2006... In last week's issue we incorrectly noted that David Falk will be working out of Houghton Mifflin's Boston office; he will be based in New York. John Mendelson will be in Boston.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
May 1, 2006... "I have always been fascinated that even separated at birth and raised in totally different environments, there were still remarkable similarities in the way twins dressed, the colors they used in their homes. In some cases they even married...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
May 1, 2006... "Marley was growing at a furious pace. Like one of those amazing jungle vines that can cover a house in hours, he was growing exponentially in all directions. His cute little puppy head that I so easily cradled in one hand that first night had...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
May 1, 2006... "Occasionally, it's simply a matter of finding the proper printed resource. For example, the detailed description in Angels & Demons depicting the intimate ritual of a Vatican conclave... much Of that was from a book published by Harvard...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
May 1, 2006... A Reuters news story last week reported that "a secret code embedded in the text of a court ruling in the case of Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code has been cracked, but far from revealing an ancient conspiracy, it is simply an obscure...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
May 1, 2006... Scads of people will flock to see Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon in the May 19 Warner Bros. feature flick. For a take-home media experience, the unabridged movie tie-in edition (not the top performer this month, but picking up steam) contains...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
May 1, 2006... Teacher Man McCourt wraps up another month of publicity (which fittingly comes as the academic year winds down) with appearances on CBS-TV's The Late Late Show (May 1) and at the New York Public Library (May 11). Psychic Browne is on the...

Alan Moore's 'literary' pornography: already a star in the world of graphic novels for wildly successful and critically acclaimed books like Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, British writer Alan Moore reached a new level of mainstream fame this spring with the success of the movie V for Vendetta. So what's he doing for his next act? Pornography.(Cover story)
May 1, 2006... For nearly 16 years, he's been working on Lost Girls with American cartoonist Melinda Gebbie. It is, everyone involved with it declares, beautiful, literary and moving. It's also bluntly pornographic, with explicit sex scenes on almost every...

Old-fashioned innovation.(Unbridled Success)
May 1, 2006... "Serializing a novel is a very old process. People trace it back to Dickens," Fred Ramey, Unbridled Books' copublisher, explains, while discussing the 18-month-old literary press's latest venture: the serialization of Golem Song, the fall 2006...

Finding his inner caveman.(Author Profile)(Biography)
May 1, 2006... Steven Raichlen scans the menu, takes a breath and places our order: "Rib tips, we oughta have some of those. We'll have some baby backs, we'll have some short ends. And some deep frieds, because why not? We need some brisket, we need some...

Golden Country.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * Golden Country JENNIFER GILMORE. Scribner, $25 (336p) ISBN 0-7432-8863-7 In a powerfully moving and ambitious debut, Gilmore follows the lives of three immigrant families, the Brodskys, the Verdoniks and the Blooms, who all begin their...

Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe DOREEN BAINGANA. Broadway/ Harlem Moon, $9.95 paper (208p) ISBN 0-7679-2510-6 Ugandan-born Baingana chronicles in her debut collection of linked stories the lives of three sisters growing up in Entebbe...

All the Numbers.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... All the Numbers JUDY MERRILL LARSEN. Ballantine, $13.95 paper (304p) ISBN 0-345-48536-X Larsen's maudlin debut traces a year in the life of Ellen Banks, a divorced mother of two whose 11-year-old son, James, gets mowed down by a Jet Ski...

Paying a horrible price: PW talks with Barry Eisler: PW caught up with thriller writer Eisler, a former CIA operative, by phone in Paris, where he was on the last leg of a European promotional tour.(Q&A)(Interview)
May 1, 2006... Are you becoming as much of a globetrotter as your series hero, Japanese-American assassin John Rain? You know it's funny, but I'll always be one step ahead of him on the globe-trotting because I always research places before I write about...

Duchess: A Novel of Sarah Churchill.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Duchess: A Novel of Sarah Churchill SUSAN HOLLOWAY SCOTT. New American Library, $14 (384p) ISBN 0-451-21855-8 Sarah Jennings's ascent from poverty as a 13-year-old to the highest echelons of late 17th-and early 18th-century English society...

Suspension.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Suspension ROBERT WESTFIELD. HarperPerennial, $13.95 (304p) ISBN 0-06-074137-6 Had it been set anywhere but New York City, Westfield's raucous debut would be viewed as an absurdist tale, but in the shadow of 9/11 and bolstered by...

Point Clear.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Point Clear JENNIFER PADDOCK. Touchstone, $13 (240p) ISBN 0-7432-8782-7 Paddock follows up her well-received debut, A Secret Word, with a subtle novel about an introspective young woman's search for selfhood. In elegiac prose, Paddock...

In the Wake.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... In the Wake PER PETTERSON, TRANS. FROM THE NORWEGIAN BY ANNE BORN. St. Martin's/Dunne, $22.95 (192p) ISBN 0-312-34383-3 In his impressive American debut, veteran Norwegian novelist Petterson chronicles Arvid Jansen's breakdown in the six...

Against a Crimson Sky.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Against a Crimson Sky JAMES CONROYD MARTIN. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 0-312-32682-3 Martin (Push Not the River) continues his fictionalized account of the life of Polish countess Anna Maria Berezowska in this entertaining...

Magic Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Magic Man RON BASE. St. Martin's/Dunne, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-32809-5 Screenwriter (The Last Sign) and former film critic Base entertains with this inventive and evocative novel of 1928 Hollywood, which follows Brae Orrack, a "magic...

The Prisoner of Guantanamo.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Prisoner of Guantanamo DAN FESPERMAN. Knopf, $24 (336p) ISBN 1-4000-4466-9 Veteran foreign correspondent Fesperman taps another timely issue in his fourth topical thriller, zeroing in on the secretive U.S.-operated prison camp for...

Black Order: A Sigma Force Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Black Order: A Sigma Force Novel JAMBS ROLLINS. Morrow, $24.95 (448p) ISBN 0-06-076388-4 What would thriller writers do without the Nazis? At the start of Rollins's inventive eighth Sigma Force novel, a secret experiment is smuggled out of...

Never Fear.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * Never Fear SCOTT FROST. Putnam, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-399-15340-3 Screenwriter Frost (Twin Peaks; The X-Files) brings back Lt. Alex Delillo, Pasadena supervisor of homicide, from his impressive debut, Run the Risk, for another...

Hit Parade.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Hit Parade LAWRENCE BLOCK. Morrow, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-06-084088-9 Block's assassin, John Keller (Hit Man; Hit List), returns in these loosely linked, well-crafted vignettes of the protagonist on assignment, blithely but expertly...

Sleeping with Fear.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Sleeping with Fear KAY HOOVER. Bantam, $25 (292p) ISBN 0-553-80318-2 Psychic FBI agent Riley Crane wakes up one afternoon covered in blood (not her own), with a pounding headache and no memory of the last three weeks--or her clairvoyant...

Proof Positive.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Proof Positive PHILIP MARGOLIN. HarperCollins, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 0-06-073505-8 In bestseller Margolin's third legal thriller featuring feisty defense lawyer Amanda Jaffe (after 2003's Wild Justice), respected forensic expert Bernard...

The Betrayed.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Betrayed DAVID HOSP. Warner, $24.95 (432p) ISBN 0-446-57695-6 In Hosp's lackluster second novel (after 2005's Dark Harbor), Darius Train and Jack Cassian, a mismatched pair of D.C. detectives, investigate the throat-slashing murder of...

The Banquet Bug.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Banquet Bug GELING YAN. Hyperion, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 1-4013-6665-1 Yan, whose short fiction was the basis for the movie Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, offers a pointed critique of capitalism's rise in her native China. A multifaceted...

The Burning.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Burning THOMAS LEGENDRE. Little, Brown, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 0-316-15380-X Writing about gambling, chance and fate, Legendre takes a bold risk, wagering an enjoyable if predictable bloke-lit debut against the egghead novel of ideas that...

So This Is Love: Lollipop and Other Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... So This Is Love: Lollipop and Other Stories GILBERT REID. St. Martin's/Dunne, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 0-312-34985-8 This debut collection (first released in Canada in 2004) examines love's many intricacies and, given the stories that follow, begins...

Warrener's Beastie: A Novel of the Deep.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Warrener's Beastie: A Novel of the Deep WILLIAM R. TROTTER. Carroll & Graf, $16.95 paper (704p) ISBN 0-78671-328-3 Historian (The Civil War in North Carolina) and novelist (The Fires of Pride) Trotter sends up Nordic myth in this...

Dark Gold.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Dark Gold DAVID ANGSTEN. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-34373-6 Take a quest to find a lost brother, hot sex with incredibly beautiful babes, a giant man-eating beast that may or may not be a god, a sunken ship and a fortune...

The Saudi Connection.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Saudi Connection JACK ANDERSON AND ROBERT WESTBROOK. Forge, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0765-31144-5 In this engaging novel of Middle East intrigue from Anderson, who died in 2005, and Westbrook (Ancient Enemy), muckraking journalist Ron Wright...

Wives Behaving Badly.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Wives Behaving Badly ELIZABETH BUCHAN. Viking, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-670-03488-6 Rose, the protagonist in the best-selling Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, stood tall when Minty Lloyd stole both her husband and her job. Buchan now gives...

Taking Off.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Taking Off ERIC KRAFT. St. Martin's, $23.95 (208p) ISBN 0-312-31884-7 This addition to Kraft's well-received body of work (Passionate Spectator, etc.) serves as the premier installment of the Flying trilogy and features the ever-engaging...

The Secret Desires of a Soccer Mom.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Secret Desires of a Soccer Mom ROBYN HARDING. Ballantine, $21.95 (304p) ISBN 0-345-47630-1 Like an episode of Desperate Housewives, this suburban murder mystery from Harding (follow-up to her well-received debut, The Journal of...

First Friends.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... First Friends MARCIA WILLETT. St. Martin's Griffin $12.95 (416p) ISBN 0-312-30662-8 There's a solid story to be found in this novel, the first of Willett's 11-year career (in its first American publication), but there's also a lot of...

Lost Girls & Love Hotels.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Lost Girls & Love Hotels CATHERINE HANRAHAN. Harper Perennial, $13.95 (272p) ISBN 0-06-084684-4 Margaret, a 20-something Canadian has fled to Tokyo to escape her past and now instructs aspiring stewardesses in "cabin-crew and airline...

Scar Tissue.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Scar Tissue CHARLES WRIGHT. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20 (80p) ISBN 0-374-25427-3 The phrasemaking lyricism of this 17th volume plays to Wright's familiar strengths: 42 long-lined poems mix calm, Taoist-inflected wisdom with lush...

Forth a Raven.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Forth a Raven CHRISTINA DAVIS. Alice James (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 paper (80p) ISBN 1-882295-57-9 Simple metaphysical questioning characterizes this strong first collection: "Every question/I have ever asked," says Davis's title poem,...

The Selected Poems of Wang Wei.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * The Selected Poems of Wang Wei WANG WEI, TRANS. FROM THE CHINESE BY DAVID HINTON. New Directions, $14.95 paper (128p) ISBN 0-81121618-7 A member of the intellectual class and a government official by profession, Wang Wei (A.D. 701-761)...

Sanctuary.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Sanctuary ADRIENNE SU. Manic D (Consortium, dist.), $13.95 paper (64p) ISBN 1-933149-06-X Su's debut gained her attention as a poet of Chinese-American identity; keeping one eye on her heritage, this clear, even conversational sophomore...

Spectral Waves.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Spectral Waves MADELINE DEFREES. Copper Canyon, $16 paper (103p) ISBN 1-55659-240-X For 38 years, Madeline DeFrees lived as a nun and was known as Sister Mary Margaret. She left the convent in middle age, but her work has never been far...

Blue Front.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Blue Front MARTHA COLLINS. Graywolf, $14 paper (94p) ISBN 1-55597-449-X Collins's fifth volume and first book-length poem concerns a horrifying lynching in her father's hometown. In Cairo, Ill., in 1909, two men (one black, one white)...

All the Lavish in Common.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... * All the Lavish in Common ALLAN PETERSON. Univ. of Massachusetts, $14.95 paper (80p) ISBN 1-55849-526-6 From out of left field, or rather north Florida, comes a smart and mature second collection. Peterson's sinuous lines and careful...

The Pitch.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Pitch TOM THOMPSON. Alice James (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 paper (78p) ISBN 1-882295-56-0 Inspired by that infamous city-dwelling poet Baudelaire, the 48 poems of Thompson's second collection swagger, looking with equal parts wonder...

Mulberry.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Mulberry DAN BEACHY-QUICK. Tupelo (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 paper (72p) ISBN 1-932195-24-6 The prolific Beachy-Quick (Spell, 2004) returns to the familiar lyric territory of his arresting debut in this challenging third book: the...

Theory of Prepositions.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Theory of Prepositions CLAUDE ROYET-JOURNOUD, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY KEITH WALDROP. Fence Books/La Presse (UPNE, dist.), $12 paper (64p) ISBN 0-9771064-1-1 Royet-Journoud is associated in France with poets Anne-Marie Albiach and...