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… The Russians were chased out of Lwów, fled. A German soldier broke the lock of the cell with his rifle, kicked the … fearing to be left behind.  Months later, when her blood comes, it feels like an accident. She feels a clench and a … in Lwów, pamphlets flutter through the air like enormous petals. surrender, they say in Polish: poddaanie się.  Then the …

… Poetry —1927 — a Miscellany. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company. $2.50. The Women at Point Sur. By Robinson Jeffers. … orgastic frenzy. “The Women at Point Sur” tells a story as complicated as any novel; a story that, for a reader with a … was healthy and normal. In the recent edition of his complete poems, “The Testaments of Francois Villon, …

… M. Isaacs, and Louis V. Ledoux. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. The most timely of these three books is … the world that there was no watchful mater familias Grun-diensis to suppress such choice items as the naming of … Weber is both more forthright and more fortunate. He points to the unquestioned poetic qualities of poems like …

… future, the past as malevolent ghost, the past as the comforting pain of pressing a bruise. This is a collection … of their younger selves. Nana, the protagonist of “Soldier’s Joy,” sleeps with her now-​married high-​school … disasters as they feel their way through grief—​but also opens the story that was underneath it all along, the …

… to the west, pale blue distance. Sporadic birds and mammals, along with snakes and lizards, survive on next to … chair beside a refrigerator on the other. Children are coming home from school carrying their book bags and … when she and her husband got married, and when her parents died, Señora Astacio moved to the bigger house, thinking the …