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This slender volume from Valda Wells contains: journal entries in the "voice" of her cat, Shiloh, poems that range from the whimsical to the metaphysical, from classical elegance to free-form musings, and prose pieces-in the author's own "voice"-that provide glimpses into Wells's wide-ranging interests, from politics to Buddhism, from planetary ecology to telepathy with cats.

Mary Stanley (1920-2005), a disabled WWII veteran, began writing poetry at the age of seventy-eight. Her poems deal with childhood memories, her love of cats and other pets, the alienation and isolation of urban life, her frustration and despair at failing health, her love of country, and the shock of the terrorist attack on 9/11/2001. One senses throughout that this woman was not a quitter, never let go of hope.

Znat' Tishinu [To Know Silence] is the third book by Olga Zalogina, a significant poet of her generation. Time, history, and the spirit of human existence are the major themes of her poetry. Zalogina feels the Russian language as a living being, which she enriches with her interesting, complex poems.

If proof were needed that size does not matter, this slender volume from Conor Barnes"Musings at the End of Modernity"would suffice. In only one hundred brief aphorisms, Barnes distills the essential elements of civilization and religion, both East and West, as they developed into the modern age. Modernity, as Barnes shows, has arrived at the dead end of humanistic atheism. In the whiteout blizzard of modern information and thought, Barneslike...

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