Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Michael Schiavo

*HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION* A wonderful and innovative collection from this under-appreciated poet. North invented this form in the early '70s, and they quite literally take the form of baseball lineups, a form that's very American and intrinsic to the game itself, its code and conduct, not simply a list of players and their positions.

Some of the lineups include "Parts of the Body" (Genitals bat cle... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

Forget about your daddy-- who's your boss? In this finest collection of American pastoral poetry in years, Maurice Manning introduces us to his "boss": A Great Ineffable; A Compassionate And Merciful; A Cosmic Joker; A Big Kahuna-- ETC. Boss, Man, and Earth in their flowering of endless connections nowhere visible but everywhere apparent, and told in a language of precise ecstasy (or ecstatic ... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Nancy Scheemaker

"The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers." Mr. Kunitz seems more vividly alive at the age of 100 than the rest of us in the prime of our lives. This is a lovely and inspiring volume of treasures.

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

One of the finest poets this side of the Atlantic, W S Merwin is also a crafter of richly-textured prose. His earlier books of prose pieces, The Miner's Pale Children and Houses And Travellers, are here collected in a single volume. Varying in scope between single sentences and story-length narratives, these-- what are they? prose poems? character sketches? short stories? fragments of a memoir... read more>>>