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Pif Magazine
ISSN: 1094-2726
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Christy Sheffield Sanford’s Light-Water: a Mosaic of Meditations (New River)
Michael Byers’ "The Largest Room" (The Missouri Review)
Gail Mazur’s "Young Apple Tree, December" – read in RealAudio by the author (Atlantic Unbound)
Judy Haswell’s "The Rain in Japan" (Trout)
M. D. Coverley’s Endless Suburbs (The Iowa Review)
Here’s a short list of what I consider to be the best e-books, hypertexts,
and print books expected to be released by publishers in the winter and
spring months of 2000. Please keep in mind that book release dates are
nebulous. These books may already be on bookstore shelves, or they may
not be out until July. Enjoy!
Doty, Mark: Turtle,
Swan, and Bethlehem in Broad Daylight : Two Volumes of Poetry
(University of Illinois Press). New poetry from the acclaimed author of
Atlantis: Poems and Firebird: A Memoir!
- Read Pif’s review of Mark Doty's Sweet Machine.
Earley, Tony: Jim the Boy (Little Brown and Co.). Debut novel from the author of Here We Are in Paradise: Stories. One of my favorite Southerner writers. Tony’s provocative essays can be found in The New Yorker and The Oxford American.
Hallett, Cynthia Whitney: Minimalism and the Short Story — Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, and Mary Robison (Studies in Comparative Literature V. 28.) (Edwin Mellen Press). Nonfiction book by an academic linking the work of these three writers. Intriguing premise.
Hannah, Barry (introduction) and Nick Cave (introduction): Pocket Canons – Mark (Grove Press). You must read Hannah’s passionate and personal introduction to this pocket edition of the King James Version of the Book of Mark. Great insight into the current mindset of Southern letters.
Joyce, Michael: Twilight: a symphony (Eastgate Systems). A profound new hypertext from the author of afternoon: a story. Regretfully, it is only available for Macs at present, but Eastgate will soon release a PC version.
- Read Pif’s interview with Joyce.
Lehman, David: The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry (Scribner). If you read his 30 daily poems at poems.com, you’ll want the whole collection. "…Reads like a sped-up meditation on the elemental stuff that we're made of… The seemingly randomness of daily life accrues into a shape and surety." - Yusef Komunyakaa
Michaels, Anne: Poems (Knopf). Her first collection of poetry to be published in the States. "These are poems that go way beyond games or fashion or politics… they represent the human being entire." — Michael Ondaatje
Prose, Francine: Blue Angel (HarperCollins). Check out the latest from the award-winning author of Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas, Bigfoot Dreams, and Household Saints.
Strand, Mark: The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention (Knopf). Essays on the nature of art and poetry from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Eclectic collection of subjects discussed, like the relationship between modern poetry and photography.
Wright, Charles: Negative Blue : Selected Later Poems (Farrar Straus & Giroux). I’m not a big fan of this poet, but for those of you who are, his latest collection should be out in April.
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Camille Renshaw is the Senior Editor for Pif Magazine.
She currently resides in Boston, MA.