The Return of What's Been Lost's fourteen stories and fourteen "choral" poems mediate on loss, personal and cultural, and on how mourning embodies in the self, incarnate and haunting, the hugeness of what is missing. The book begins during the Second World War, moves into the years immediately after it, enters into the era of Vietnam and later the AIDs epidemic, and ends with the wars in Iraq. Not all losses are absolute; joy also returns. In the story, "Return of the Fallen," Paul Lassiter thinks, "How much the dead must miss us to imprint their lives on ours." David Morris

-In Late Summer Storm in Early Winter, exquisite poetry by Peter Weltner and startling images by Galen Garwood engage in an ineffable dialogue that ranges between the echoing call of the distant past and the intimate whisper of the mythological present. Here the radiant beauty of the body and the savage reach of hunger and fear collide, whether in the sanctity of love, in dream's unspeakable truth, or in memory's sweet fragility. We are reminded of failure's clarity and victory's cloudy future, as narrative imagery plays out in finely crafted, musical lines. These poems and images witness...