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New Books - 04/00
W.S. Merwin's translation of Dante's _Purgatorio_ (Knopf, $30), and First
Four Books of Poems (Copper Canyon, $16), Mr. Merwin's sought-after early
books together in one volume.
Charles Wright's _Negative Blue_ (FSG, $23), his third trilogy, here in one
book, with some recent poems added.
Jean Valentine's _The Cradle of the Real Life_ (Wesleyan, $12.95 pb/ $26
hc), her latest collection of powerful, highly condensed poems.
_By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry_ (Graywolf, $16), essays by a wide array
of women poets, edited by Molly McQuade.
_Ultima Thule_ ($11/$19) is the Yale Younger Poet Prize collection from
Davis McCombs, which contains two well-realized sonnet sequences.
Yehuda Amichai's _Open Closed Open_ (Harcourt, $25), a generous collection
of his moving poems, translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Chana
Kronfeld.
_Boss Cupid_ (FSG, $22), the latest collection of cunning and smart work by
Thom Gunn, who reads in Seattle May 11th.
The University of California Press's new poetry series, edited by Robert
Hass, Brenda Hillman, and Calvin Bedient, begins promisingly with _Enola
Gay_ ($13.95/$30) by Mark Levine, _Selected Poems_ ($15.95/$40) by Fanny
Howe, and _For_($14.95/$30) by Carol Snow.
There are new books by Virginia Hamilton Adair and Gerald Stern, good books
new to paperback, and audio from Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and Hayden
Carruth. And more!
