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* Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life. By Michael Nott. June 2024. 720p. Farrar, $45 (9780374279202); e-book (9780374721374). 811. Nott, an editor of The Letters of Thom Gunn (2022), skillfully [...]

* The Stuff of Hollywood. By Niki Herd. Aug. 2024. 112p. illus. Copper Canyon, paper, $22 (9781556596964). 811. The Stuff of Hollywood moves like a reel of film, 24 frames [...]

* Christopher Isherwood Inside Out. By Katherine Bucknell. Aug. 2024. 848p. Farrar, $40 (9780374119362); e-book (9781429951982). 810. Bucknell edited four volumes of Isherwood's diaries as well as a collection of […]

World within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music. By Jeff Tweedy. Nov. 2023. 240p. Dutton, $26 (9780593472521); e-book (9780593472538). 780. Following the generosity [...]

* August Wilson. By Patti Hartigan. Aug. 2023.592p. Simon & Schuster, $32.50 (9781501180668). 812.54. 'Blood's memory' is what playwright August Wilson identified as his ancestral inspiration. The dramatic language of [...]

The Letters of Thom Gunn. By Thom Gunn. Ed. by August Kleinzahler and others. May 2022.8oop. illus. Farrar, $45 (9780374605698). 821.914. Thom Gunn was an English poet who came to [...]

Wind, Trees. By John Freeman. Oct 2022.96p. Copper Canyon, paper, $16.99 (9781556596483). 811. Following his urbane ruminations in his last collection, The Park (2020), Freeman's observations about humanity's impacts on [...]

* The Search for the Genuine. By Jim Harrison. Sept. 2022.336p. Grove, $28 (9780802157218); e-book, $28 (9780802157232). 814. Harrison (1937-2016) was a larger-than-life force during his prolific career, creating 18 [...]

By Fernando Valverde. Tr. by Carolyn Forche. Oct. 2021. 176p. Copper Canyon, paper, $18 (9781556596223). 861. In Valverde's previous collection, The Insistence of Harm (2019), a specter of violence seemed [...]

* Smoking the Bible. By Chris Abani. May 2022. 80p. Copper Canyon, paper, $17 (9781556596285). 808.81. Abani's radiant seventh poetry collection emanates grit and beauty, while the senses are called [...]

Private Notebooks: 1914-1916. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Tr. by Marjorie Perloff. Apr. 2022. 240p. Norton/Liveright, $24.95 (9781324090809). 192. In this first complete English translation of Wittgenstein's three surviving wartime notebooks, Perloff [...]

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography. By Tenzin Geyche Tethong. Dec. 2020.352p. illus. Interlink, $35 (9781623718770). 294.3. This gorgeous biography-in-photographs is a more than welcome addition to [...]

Naked. By Abiodun Oyewole. Nov. 2020.186p. Univ. of Chicago/2Leaf, paper, $16.99 (97817346181051.811. Founding member of the seminal spokenword initiative the Last Poets, thought by many critics to be the first [...]

* Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time. By Teju Cole. Oct. 2021. 288p. illus. Univ. of Chicago, $22.50 (97802266413551. 700.1. Novelist, essayist, and photographer Cole (Blind Spot, 2017) is [...]

* Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems. By Louise Gluck. Oct. 2021.64p. Farrar, $25 (9780374604103). 811.54. In her first new collection since being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in [...]

* Complete Poems. By Jim Harrison. Ed. by Joseph Bednarik. Oct. 2021. 944p. Copper Canyon, $40 (9781556595936). 811. Five years after Harrison's death, this robust volume is a testament to [...]

Dialogues with Rising Tides. By Kelli Russell Agodon. Apr. 2021. 96p. Copper Canyon, paper, $16 (9781556596155). 811. Seattle-area poet Agodon's finely crafted poems gleam like prisms, so clear is her [...]

Popular Longing. By Natalie Shapero. Feb. 2021. 80p. Copper Canyon, paper, $17 (9781556595882). 811. In her third book (following Hard Child, 2017), Shapero's shrewd pacing and curiosity sharpen one's attention. [...]

Selected. By Frederick Seidel. Dec. 2020. 288p. Farrar, $30 (9780374260811); e-book (9780374721978).811. In the third selected collection in Seidel's long career, following Poems, 1959--1979 and Poems, 1959-2009, readers are again [...]

How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back. By Jeff Tweedy. Oct. 2020.176p. Dutton, $23 (9780593183526); e-book, $23 (9780593183533). 782.42. 'I want [...]

Wonder & Wrath. By A. M. Juster. Oct. 2020.80p. Paul Dry, paper, $14.95 (97815898814951.811. Juster is a formalist poet with nine previous collections, including The Secret Language of Women (2002), [...]

Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World. By Dalai Lama and Franz Alt. Nov. 2020. 192p. Hanover Square, $19.99 (9781335218469); e book, $12.99 (9780369700322). 363.738. In their previous [...]

An Incomplete List of Names. By Michael Torres. Oct. 2020. 128p. Beacon, paper, $15 (9780807046746). 811. In his standout first collection Torres, a recipient of NEA and Bread Loaf fellowships, [...]

The Park. By John Freeman. May 2020. 96p. Copper Canyon, paper, $17 (9781556595950). 811. Freeman follows his climate-change-focused anthology, Tales of Two Planets (2020), with his second poetry collection, following [...]

* Summer Snow. By Robert Hass. Jan. 2020.192p. Ecco, $27.99 (9780062950024). 811. Former U.S. poet laureate and winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, Hass presents his first [...]

Sky Country. By Christine Kitano. Sept. 2017. 80p. BOA, $16 (9781942683438); e-book, $9.99 (97819426834451.811. Combing cultural and personal history, Kitano is generous in revealing her family lore and the emotional [...]

Meatballs for the People: Proverbs to Chew on. By Gary Soto. Oct. 2017. 160p. Red Hen, paper, $9.95 (97815970960101.398.9. Beloved by YAs, Soto has written more than 35 books for [...]

Unaccompanied. By Javier Zamora. Sept. 2017. 88p. Copper Canyon, paper, $16 (97815565951101.811. Testifying to the tragedy unfolding on the southern border of the U.S., Zamora's debut collection expresses harrowing beauty [...]

So Where Are We? By Lawrence Joseph. Aug. 2017. 80p. Farrar, $23 (9780374266677). 811. The factual horror the news delivers each day finds a different order in Joseph's finely crafted [...]

!Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets. Ed. by Melissa Castillo-Garsow. May 2017. 478p. Arte Publico, paper, $21.95 (97815588584281.811. iManteca! is a welcome addition to the cornucopia of books sharing the [...]

McCartney, Linda. Wide Open. 1999. 94p. illus. Little, Brown/Bulfinch, $22.50 (0-8212-2596-0). DDC: 779.92. The variety of photographic methods that McCartney used and the quiet exactitude with which she used them [...]

Stoll, David. Rigoberta Menchu: And the Story of All Poor Guatemalans. Jan. 1999. 432p. index. Westview, $28 (0-8133-3574-4). DDC: 972.81. Some people have been considered 'living saints.' Rigoberta Menchu, who [...]

Burroughs, William S. Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader. Ed. by James Grauerholz and Ira Silverberg. Jan. 1999. 576p. Grove; dist. by Publishers Group West, $27.50 (0-8021-1629-9). DDC: 813. [...]

Solway, Diane. Nureyev: His Life. Oct. 1998. 512p. illus. Morrow, $27.50 (0-688-12873-4). DDC: 792.8. Rudolf Nureyev entered the popular media consciousness in April 1961, when, almost on a whim, it [...]

The Beatles: An Oral History. Ed. by David Pritchard and Alan Lysaght. Oct. 1998. 320p. index. Hyperion; dist. by Little, Brown, $23.95 (0-7868-6436-2). DDC: 782.42166. The story of the Beatles [...]

Rosales, F. Arturo. June 1996.304p. index. illus. Arte Publico, $45 (1-55885-152-6). DDC:973 YA Rosales offers a sorely needed chronicle of the fastest-growing so-called minority population in the U.S. He reaches [...]

Mead, Jane. June 1996. 96p. Sarabande, 2234 Dundee Rd., Ste. 200, Louisville, KY 40205, $19.95 (0-9641 151-0-7); paper, $12.95 (0-9641151-1-5). DDC:811. Crossed and recrossed with a plain speech that is [...]

Kenvin, Natalie. May 1995. 71p. BOA, $20 (1-880238-20-9); paper, $12.50 (1-880238-21-7). Galley. 811'.54 [BKL] Each poem in Kenvin's first collection seems to be a message from a survivor's heart. In [...]

Anaya, Rudoffo. June 1995, 386p. Warner, $21.95 (0-446-51843-3). Galley. The author of two celebrated mainstream novels, Albuquerque (I 992) and Bless Me, Ultima (1972), Anaya ventures into the mystery genre [...]

For being about a rock n' roll group, this is amazingly good. But then, U2 is an amazing band: four Dublin kids who didn't know how to write songs, let [...]

In his first venture into fiction, lyer follows his compass through the oldest known terrain, love. The Cuba he describes is the Cuba we've been reading about for some years [...]

'My God, some courtships are more difficult than others, aren't they?'' So asks one of the characters rhetorically toward the end of Howard Norman's latest novel. This unconventional love story, [...]

The age of the gentleman traveler and explorer is not dead. Mind over Matter is just that, Sir Ranulph Fiennes' mind over the matter of Antarctica - on foot! One [...]

Winogrand, Garry. The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand. 1999. 168p. illus. D.A.P., $45 (1-881337-05-7). DDC: 779. These books of photographs could be considered to be [...]

Davidson, Bruce. Brooklyn Gang. 1998. 98p. illus. Twin Palms, 405 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, $60 (0-944092-50-0). DDC: 779. These books of photographs could be considered to be [...]

Americanos: Latino Life in the United States. Ed. by Edward James Olmos and Lea Ybarra. Apr. 1999. 176p. illus. Little, Brown, $40 (0-316-64914-7); paper, $25 (0-316-64909-0). DDC: 305.868. This is [...]

Caveney, Graham. Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs. June 1998. 224p. index. illus. Little, Brown, $27.95 (0-316-13725-1). DDC: 823. Despite pervasive, creative use of illustration--on every [...]

Vaughan, Mary Jane. Simply Stylish Flowers. May 1998. 112p. index. illus. Trafalgar Square, $24.95 (1-57076-109-4). DDC: 745.92. Projections can, more often than not, be the seeds of our most lasting [...]

Packer, Jane. Fast Flower Arranging. May 1998. 128p. index. illus. DK, $19.95 (0-7894-2394-4). DDC: 745.92. Projections can, more often than not, be the seeds of our most lasting memories. In [...]