cover image Still Life with Insects

Still Life with Insects

Brian Kiteley, Brian Kitely. Graywolf Press, $8 (114pp) ISBN 978-1-55597-189-2

In a series of spare, often lyrical vignettes spanning the years from 1945 to 1984, a Minnesota chemist and amateur entomologist, recovering from a nervous breakdown, records obliquely the circumstances of his life. (Apr.)