The Rooster's Wife by Russell Edson
BOA Editions LTD, 2005, paperback, $14.95
"It's a scientific fact that anyone entering the distance will grow
smaller as he proceeds. Eventually becoming so small he might only be
found with a microscope, if indeed he is found at all."
from "Of Memory and Distance"

Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver
Viking, 2005, hardcover, $22.00
"If she spoke to them, I don't remember exactly what she said,
and if they kindly answered, it's a gift that can't be broken
      by giving it away.
All I know is, there was a light that lingered, for hours,
under her eyelids--that made a difference
when she went back to a difficult house, at the end of the day."
--from "Trout Lilies"

Arriving soon...
Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
Knopf, 2005, hardcover, $25.00
"The mouth is our chief access to the intimacy
in which she may reside. Her mouth is the porch
of the brain. The forecourt of the heart.
The way to the mystery enthroned. Where we meet
momentarily amid the seraphim and the powers."
--from "The Friendship Inside Us"