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|  | The Waste Land & Other Poems by T. S. Eliot
Eliot`s major work, The Wasteland , was controversial when it appeared in 1922. Considered both obscure and radical, it utilizes a combination of modern slang and ancient myth, arcane literary allusion and jazzy modernity. Eliot also included helpful but pedantic footnotes. However, the poem is lyrical and hypnotic, and its collage-like mode is, in the end, an effective form for the expression of Eliot`s view of the fragmentation and degeneration of modern life. Much of the poem`s final shape was influenced by Ezra Pound, who served as Eliot`s mentor in its writing--a fact which only emerged with the publication of a facsimile manuscript in 1972. AUTHOR: T. S. Eliot
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Barren Ground by Ellen Glasgow, Flo Gibson
A novel set in Virginia about an intelligent, independent young woman trying to define who she is. AUTHOR: Ellen Glasgow, Flo Gibson
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | April's Kittens by Clare T. Newberry, Clare Turlay Newberry
April's apartment is too small for her cat's three new kittens, but her father finds a happy solution. AUTHOR: Clare T. Newberry, Clare Turlay Newberry
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Love's Mainland by Harry Heliotis, Pamela Flint, Walter James Miller
An 83-year-old poet upon the publication of this collection, Miller matured as a writer during the heyday of American modernism. His lyrics meditate on love, war, and mortality in rhythmic verse that celebrates its own language and jazzy riffs. Elegies to figures such as the poet Louis Zukofsky add historic dimension to this playful collection. AUTHOR: Harry Heliotis, Pamela Flint, Walter James Miller
PUBLISHER: Lintel
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Vita Nova by Louise Gluck
Among other things, Gluck weaves together the myth of Orpheus and Euridice and the history of her own unhappily-ended marriage. Like many of her books, VITA NOVA is primarily a long sequence of poems, meant to be taken together rather than as independent, freestanding lyrics. This book was nominated for the National Book Award in 1999. AUTHOR: Louise Gluck
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Luck of the Bodkins by G. P. Wodehouse
Description not available.Monty Bodkin's courtship of Gertrude Butterwick runs into stormy weather when a Hollywood starlet becomes involved in the social activities on the R.M.S. Atlantic. AUTHOR: G. P. Wodehouse
PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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