Malcolm Cowley called childhood the "landscape by which all others are reckoned and condemned." This provocative, mythic, haunted territory is the turf of Douglas Nordfors' Auras, a collection charged with Wordsworthian wandering/wondering and Blakean outrage against "mind-forg'd manacles" harmful to the innocent, impoverished, or vulnerable among us. These poems offer profound empathy with children, natural phenomena, and animal presences; they marry the pre-Lapsarian, primal urgency of early experiences with an extraordinarily generous adult vision that compels and taunts us with the depth...

When he is introduced to Jeremy Davies at a party in the summer of 2000, Edward Larson has no idea what lies in store for him: a tentative but ever-deepening friendship with Jeremy's sister; a perilous fascination with Jeremy's wife; an obsession with the London Blitz, linking him to the Davies family and to the world at large in mysterious ways; an ability to assess his own troubled adulthood; and two trips from Long Island to London, each enlightening in its own way. At once a novel of ideas and a suspenseful drama, Jane Davies examines through multiple and interlocking angles the difficult...

When he is introduced to Jeremy Davies at a party in the summer of 2000, Edward Larson has no idea what lies in store for him: a tentative but ever-deepening friendship with Jeremy's sister; a perilous fascination with Jeremy's wife; an obsession with the London Blitz, linking him to the Davies family and to the world at large in mysterious ways; an ability to assess his own troubled adulthood; and two trips from Long Island to London, each enlightening in its own way. At once a novel of ideas and a suspenseful drama, Jane Davies examines through multiple and interlocking angles the difficult...