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Late Wonders: New and Selected Poems by Wesley McNair “One of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry.”—Philip Levine Wesley McNair’s poems have long celebrated eccen- trics and misfits, the hopeful and the lost, with a tenderness that transcends the everyday. This career-spanning collection brings together his very best poems from the past four decades alongside new work. Since the publication of his first book in the early 1980s, McNair has earned a reputation as a poet of place, an intimate observer of the speech and character of New England. In fact, McNair’s “place” is unlimited, as he proves in the lucid, far-ranging poems of this volume. Late Wonders includes “The
Bear by Marian Engel “A strange and wonderful book, plausible but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance.”—Margaret Atwood A librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive colonel whose most surprising secret is a bear. Even more surprising is the passion—shocking passion—that develops between the woman and the large, powerful animal. 128 PAGES · SOFTCOVER · $15.95 (contains adult content)
Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec “One of the great novels of the century.” — Boston Globe This spellbinding puzzle takes place in an apartment block where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is revealed. The observations become a manual for life, portraying the mixed marriages of fortunes, passions and despairs, and betrayals and bereavements of lives around the world. 680 PAGES · SOFTCOVER · $24.95
Long Dream of Home” and the complete trilogy of McNair’s masterful, long narrative poems written over the last thirty years: “My Brother Running,” “Fire,” and “Dwellers in the House of the Lord.” This is a collection for anyone who believes mixing a little sorrow and little comedy makes for poetry that moves the heart. NEW · 296 PAGES · HARDCOVER · $29.95 A limited number of signed copies will ship to the first customers to order.
Old Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions by Donald Hall “Old Poets is an indispensable jewel.” — Washington Post
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Donald Hall’s essays are once both intimate por- traits and learned treatises. He takes us on a pub crawl through the Welsh countryside with the word-mad Dylan Thomas; to the Faber & Faber office of T. S. Eliot, who had discovered more hap- piness in age than in youth; to a reading where Robert Frost’s public persona hid the truth; to Brooklyn for lunch with the enigmatic Marianne Moore; and to Italy and for a visit with the noto- rious Ezra Pound. For lovers of literature, this is a gorgeous remembrance. As Hall writes, “Their presences have been emblems in my life, and I remember these poets as if I kept them carved in stone.” 304 PAGES · HARDCOVER · $27.95
“One of the strongest stories of supernatural horror. . . . Bursts into life and does not flag until the end.”— Washington Post Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor, has come north from London to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare. 144 PAGES · ILLUSTRATED · HARDCOVER · $19.95
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