The Land of Dreams   Vidar Sunstøl
Very enjoyable, noir mystery about a policeman’s struggle with what he thinks he knows about a murder he discovered and the past that haunts him and his family. Very much the first volume of a trilogy: we’re just left hanging with all the dilemmas unresolved.

Falling in Love through a Description   Keith Waldrop
April is national poetry month, so I finally got to Waldrop’s trilogy that won the National Book Award. The poems in this volume are not nearly so obscure as the previous volume, but I couldn’t get inside many of these either. All craft, I guess.

Shipwreck in Haven   Keith Waldrop
April is national poetry month, so I finally got to Waldrop’s trilogy that won the National Book Award. The poems in this volume are so obscure and the punctuation so idiosyncratic, that I’m not sure I understood any of them. Too bad.