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David Lehman's poem, "Ode to Pornography" (Nerve) Christian Roselund's hypertext, "The Rules of Carpentry" (fray.com) Francine Prose's short story, "The Witch" (Zoetrope: All-Story) Klaus Ungerer's short story, "Black Out" (Prairie Schooner) David Allen's short story, "Free Fall" (ShortStory.org) 
Blakely, Diann: Farewell, My Lovelies (Consortium). This poet’s second collection. Read her poetry at Pif. Doty, Mark: Turtle, Swan, and Bethlehem in Broad Daylight : Two Volumes of Poetry (University of Illinois Press). Poetry that is gritty, hopeful, cautionary, sexy. No one else writes about loss like this. Read Pif’s review of his last book of poetry, 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. O’Brien, Edna: Wild Decembers: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin). O’Brien’s latest. She teaches us again how to use place in our writing as she charts the stormy relations of an Irish family: "fields mean more than fields, more than life and more than death too." Pocket Canons: Books of the Bible (Grove Press). This set of pocket-sized books includes Psalms, Luke, Job, Matthew, Exodus, Mark, Proverbs, Genesis, Ecclesiastes, Revelation, John, and Corinthians in the King James translation. Introductions were written by Bono, Thomas Cahill, Charles Frazier, Francisco Goldman, David Grossman, Barry Hannah, Charles Johnson, Jamaica Kinkaid, Doris Lessing, Will Self, Darcey Steinke, and Fay Weldon. The personal stories and unusual perspectives of these introducers will compel you to reenter the world of Biblical texts. 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. Pushkin, Alexander, Douglas R. Hofstadter (translator) Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Basic Books). This translator’s book, Godel, Escher, Bach, which won him the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, is one of my favorites. His interpretation of Pushkin’s complex prose is astounding. Whether you like this Russian or not, you must read the intro. Rucker, Rudy: Gnarl! (Four Walls Eight Windows). These science fiction stories blend Kafka-esque humor, the "pseudo-memoir," and cutting edge yet perverse physics.
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