Peter Campion

Living in Language

Arts & Literature

“Capacious and precise, critical and sympathetic, deeply cultured and thoroughly down-to-earth, David Bosworth’s Living in Language engages the reader with free-ranging enthusiasm: whether elaborating on James Fenimore Cooper, Wallace Stevens, or Patricia Lockwood, his prose is distinguished by originality and vividness. Even as he laments the instrumental rationalism of our age, Bosworth offers a glimpse of a present that contains “so many riches to assay here, so much pain to parse and beauty to acclaim.” This book is to be acclaimed.”

The Place across the River

Arts & Literature

“The poems in this superb collection by Harold J. Recinos are testaments to that lifeforce he calls the ‘wondrous human river.’ In exquisite lines and sentences, lucid images, and passionate meditations on a contemporary culture ‘voluptuous with hypocrisy,’ Recinos returns his readers to the difficult, necessary, and ultimately beautiful work of building a multicultural America. In a time of rhetorical bluster and easy abstraction, here instead is the genuine imprint of humanity.”