Fiction. "Can't recall where it was I first came across ISAAC AND THE UNDERTAKER'S DAUGHTER and the alliterative no-nonsense monosyllables that gave me the name of its author. Recall only that I straightway made for a typewriter to whip off a love letter. Steve Stern is smart. Steve Stern is eloquent. Steve Stern is knowing. But the best of Steve Stern is the goodly heart whose imprint he impresses onto the page. Here is a mensch-and an artist"-Gordon Lish.

Isaac and the Undertaker's Daughter (Lost Roads, 22)

Literature & Fiction

Stern, Steve

Contemporary

Lost Roads Publishers

New Orleans My Darling (Special Series, No. 1)

Engineering & Transportation

Heller, Barbara

Heller, Sandra

Transportation

A Good copy of a writer's "first published collection."Cover painting by the author is an abstract which has a mask, covered by ferns, set on a column, framed by a mostly gold frame. Wear to cover. No wrinkles to spine. Wear to back cover with faint scratching. Inside front cover is a spot measuring a quarter inch along the side edging which continues until page 29. Part of a label on front flyleaf. Gift inscription in blue ballpoint on title page. Signed by author in black fine felt tip on title page:"For Aunt Janet/Alison Bundy" Instead of a comma between lines, the author has drawn a line. Lost Roads series no. 27. 53 pages. Contents:"the traveller; a windy day; the telling; the nervous person; the day of the pig; a small matter of planning; the baby and the poison beetle; the chair; the inexplicable incident of the crown; love and the metal chest; the man, the storm; zombie fete: an outline; the wheelbarrow story; tree signs; the apostle of love; traci

A Bad Business (Lost Roads, 27)

Bundy, Alison

United States

Tales from the Next Village: Fictions of Mary Caponegro

Craver, Mark

Poetry

Wild Meat (Lost Roads)

Whitlow, Carolyn Beard

Poetry. "I have been following Myra Sklarew's poetry for years, and am aware of its continual deepening into forms of daring and manifest freedom.. I recognize how she is quietly extraordinary. Fiction by Myra Sklarew is an event" -Cynthia Ozick.

Like a Field Riddled by Ants

Sklarew, Myra

Poetry. "In his remarkable magazine 'Tyuonyi,' Phillip Foss is realizing a vital new synthesis of seemingly disparate tendencies in North American poetry. Foss's collection of poems, THE COMPOSITION OF GLASS, achieves something of the same effect. Foss's poems, especially the long sequence called 'Virga. Icy Gate,' are possessed of an elegiac resistance that is ruminatively intoxicating. Make no mistake about it: Foss's reflections are as convincing as cliffs" -Charles Bernstein.

The Composition of Glass (Lost Roads, 34)

Foss, Phillip

Fiction. "After generations of women writers who helped women and men by saying what was wrong, Sharon Doubiago helps us even more by saying what could be right. She is sexual without submission, loving without loss of self, and free without rebellion. With a poet's power and a novelist's scope, she describes new feelings, new possibilities, and a new closeness to the natural world" -Gloria Steinem.

El Nino (Lost Roads, 35)

Doubiago, Sharon

Poetry. " All of Waldrop's work evokes the conflict between activity and passivity, doing and being, poetry as discovery and poetry as invention. In fact, reading Waldrop gives the reader two impressions, often in rapid succession: that of participating in a desperate search for a lost and possibly non-existent item; and that of sitting still, trying to be so quiet a tiny voice will reach one from a distance. The energy in these poems goes into the effort of thought, of meditation, not into the lines. Like Wallace Stevens in his early long poems (and like any phenomenologist) Waldrop strips perceptions of accretions so that they can be seen in their first light, without falsification. The effect is in both cases a poem that is smooth flowing on the surface but dense with effort and energy underneath" - Janet McCann, Parnassus: Poetry in Review.

The Opposite of Letting the Mind Wander: Selected Poems and a Few Songs (Lost Roads, No. 36)

Waldrop, Keith

Fiction. "These are not stories in the contemporary sense, but tales spun out of the mystical and the ordinary, a history of men sizing up other men and bottles being passed around a campfire. ...If death figures here, there is also the dichotomy of images honing in on an inevitable end and a language that is enormously, relentlessly alive"--Silvia Curbelo.

Conditions Uncertain and Likely to Pass Away

Stanford, Frank

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