Janet Kauffman, Author Vintage Books USA $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-73055-2
Fifteen short stories, some written as prose-poems, focus on female characters. ``Other than a few instants of crystallized perception, very little occurs here, and the sameness of tone becomes wearisome,'' PW complained. (Nov.)
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Janet Kauffman, Author Graywolf Press $12.95 (183p) ISBN 978-1-55597-252-3
""It takes fifteen years to know where you are, and to know if it makes sense to be there."" So says Baku, leader of an immigrant support group in Battle Creek, Mich. In ""Baku's Theory,"" as in all of the pithy, minimal stories in the latest...
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Janet Kauffman, Author Alfred A. Knopf $13.95 (129p) ISBN 978-0-394-55080-0
Against a landscape composed of and by women, men hardly register in this thin, elegant novel by the author of Places in the World a Woman Could Walk. Dovie (formally named Andrea Doria) listens closely to her Mennonite mother, who seems to...
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Janet Kauffman, Author Alfred A. Knopf $16.95 (109p) ISBN 978-0-394-57411-0
The best of these 15 very short stories by the author of Places in the World a Woman Could Walk are prose poems. Observed by one man, a flock of women gathers in a stubble field, a silent force waiting to speak. A one-legged woman invents a board...
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Janet Kauffman, Author Graywolf Press $18 (128p) ISBN 978-1-55597-179-3
Novelist ( Collaborators ), short-story writer and poet Kauffman has a way of re-envisioning what prose is able to be, casting toward an expanded consciousness that can take in almost any human element; as a writer, she is a convinced democrat,...
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Janet Kauffman. Wayne State Univ., $16.99 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-0-8143-4381-4
In this experimental ode to an impending apocalypse, Kauffman (Trespassing) surveys the toxic relationship between humankind and the natural world via eerie portents and striking imagery. She asserts in the title poem that “time has taken us far too
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