An unpretentious house hiding Jews in the war, a modern-day bus terminal, a bed vacant of its lover and an 1847 Irish trial over the death of a sheep are all examples of the poems? locations, but it is Aliesan’s subject matter that... Read More

Summer Lake is a wonderful overview of twenty years of Huddle’s writing, from his first book in 1979 to the final new poems. What will delight readers is how this collection not only exhibits some of his best and most ambitious work,... Read More

“I never exercised, ate the recommended high carbohydrate diet espoused by the AMA, ADA and fashionable fitness magazines and relied upon my great genes to get me through life. And all was well until I turned 40.” So begins Larrian... Read More

This is not spiritual junk food, Kirvan tells readers on page one. Instead, he says, this is a deeper feast, an attempt to sate twentieth century spiritual emptiness with mystic meditations on God. Kirvan theorizes that modern society,... Read More

This book, Ignatow’s last before his death, is inundated with honesty and the quiet irony of a fine poet looking his death straight in the eye and saying, I wish it weren’t this way, but since it is, this is what I have to say. He... Read More

What is there about the Tarot, a deck of seventy-eight cards bearing symbolic pictures, that could evoke enough fear that during certain eras of history one could have been jailed, exiled or even killed were it found in one’s... Read More

Fourteen-year-old Mark gets B’s. He thinks C’s should do, yet he is capable of A’s. His parents are frustrated. What to do? Curran, a prolific parenting writer and popular workshop presenter, suggests that parents negotiate instead... Read More

While directed toward Christians, Good News will resonate with Jews, Muslims and other faiths. In short essays, Crim, a veteran broadcaster who spent nearly twenty years editing and anchoring television news in Detroit, tells readers to... Read More