The Wolfpen Poems, James Still (Berea College,...

The Wolfpen Poems, James Still (Berea College, Appalachian Center, Box 2336, Berea, Ky. 40404), “bring home, among many other good and painful things, the necessity of Appalachia and the things it stands for, even to those who have never seen it” (James Dickey).

Anteparadise: A Bilingual Edition, Raul Zurita, translated by Jack Schmitt (University of California). Poems that are “oddly silent, disturbing, grotesque, beautiful and sensitively translated: “The book’s haunting dreams, its beaches and mountains and bodies, its Chile, have now entered our waking world” (W. S. Merwin).

The Little Virtues, Natalie Ginzburg (Seaver Books). Eleven autobiographical essays by the Italian critic. By embracing the homeliest details of daily existence with astonishment and joy, Natalie Ginzburg suggests, “we may legitimately hope to conquer the wordly and leaden voices of materialism and fear” (Carolyn See).

Little Tours of Hell, Josephine Saxton (Pandora/Metheun). “Corrosively witty and mordantly funny tales . . . most of them happening during vacations, which offer unparalleled opportunities for misery” (Elaine Kendall).