Seven Notebooks

Campbell McGrath's new book, Seven Notebooks, has one of the nicest covers of any books we have received this year. It is a section of a Hiroshige woodblock print.
Hiroshige turns up in several of the poems that make up the book, which is composed in a variety of stanzaic forms, from Haiku to prose blocks of some length. The subjects of the book include landscape (Chicago, Miami, New Jersery), memory, death, and the pure delight of perception. McGrath handles both the forms and the subjects with heartfelt mastery.