From Publishers Weekly
With this 12th edition, the Carey-Thomas Award-winning sampling of small presses and little magazines continues to uphold its reputation as a provocative forum for contemporary writing. The eclectic, experimental 1987-88 omnibus is conspicuously mournful and self-reflecting although the applications are universal. The first-person narrator of Gordon Lish's "Mr. Goldbaum" details his father's funeral and interment, and the deadening apathy of the survivors. A Chinese immigrant couple's discontented, discordant union is contemplated by their American daughters in "A Red Sweater" by Fae Myenne Ng. C. K. Williams's grief for the untimely loss of fellow-poet Paul Zweig is palpable in "Le Petit Salvie," and a Native American fathoms his own painful, irreversible demise in Paul West's inventive story "The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests." In a quest for self-realization and independence, a woman destroys a long-standing friendship in Rosellen Brown's "One of Two." A few extrospective selections balance the anthology, including William H. Gass's insightful "Some Snapshots from the Soviet Union," an account of a tense Soviet-American writers' conference. Paperback to Penguin.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Short Day by Philip Booth
The Alias: A Survey by Albert Goldbarth
Poland Of Death: 1 by Allen Grossman
A Sketch Of The Great Dejection by Thomson William Gunn
Shrubs Burned Away by Donald Hall
Walking In The 15th Century by Daniel Halpern
The Person, Sels. by Lyn Hejinian
Heliopathy by Susan Howe
The Promise Of Light by Richard Jackson
Psalm And Lament by Donald Justice
The Underground by Thomas Mcgrath
Eve by Sandra Jean Mcpherson
The Garden Of Earthly Delights by Czeslaw Milosz
Four From The Baudelaire Series by Michael Palmer
Lament For The Makers by Robert Pinsky
That They Were At The Beach - Aeolotrophic Series by Leslie Scalapino
Simple Question by Lloyd Schwartz
His Funny Valentine by Louis Simpson
Oyster Bar On The Road To Mururua by George Starbuck
Bela by Gerald Stern
Viewing The Coast by Mark Strand
At P.c. Sergeant's House by Susan Tichy
Unwritten Laws by Bill Tremblay
The Imagination Of Flowers by Lee Upton
Le Petit Salvie by Charles Kenneth Williams
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
The Alias: A Survey by Albert Goldbarth
Poland Of Death: 1 by Allen Grossman
A Sketch Of The Great Dejection by Thomson William Gunn
Shrubs Burned Away by Donald Hall
Walking In The 15th Century by Daniel Halpern
The Person, Sels. by Lyn Hejinian
Heliopathy by Susan Howe
The Promise Of Light by Richard Jackson
Psalm And Lament by Donald Justice
The Underground by Thomas Mcgrath
Eve by Sandra Jean Mcpherson
The Garden Of Earthly Delights by Czeslaw Milosz
Four From The Baudelaire Series by Michael Palmer
Lament For The Makers by Robert Pinsky
That They Were At The Beach - Aeolotrophic Series by Leslie Scalapino
Simple Question by Lloyd Schwartz
His Funny Valentine by Louis Simpson
Oyster Bar On The Road To Mururua by George Starbuck
Bela by Gerald Stern
Viewing The Coast by Mark Strand
At P.c. Sergeant's House by Susan Tichy
Unwritten Laws by Bill Tremblay
The Imagination Of Flowers by Lee Upton
Le Petit Salvie by Charles Kenneth Williams
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
