New Releases by Chris Wallace

This selection has been made by the poet himself from his eleven collections, published from 1959 in Australia, and then since 1980 by Oxford University Press, up to the most recent title, Rungs of Time. He has chosen poems that still ''work'' for his readers, and which bear witness to past selves.

A variable limited edition artists'' book of nine monotypes and six poems produced as a collaboration between poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe and artist Bruno Leti. Bruno Leti designed the book and printed the monotypes in his Melbourne studio. The text, set in 18pt. Bembo Bold (with the poems all in capitals), was screen-printed by Larry Rawling on 300 gsm Hahnmuhle paper at his Fitzroy workshop. Norbert Herold made the covers and slipcase.

This is the fourth collection of poetry by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, a cosmopolitan poet who once again covers a wide range of subjects in a style that is sometimes "deadly serious," sometimes intensely playful and witty, sometimes quite simple in its celebration of the poet''s home country, Australia. In Rungs of Time the clutter of living both enchants and perplexes the poet: a poem that lists a hundred or so things that "are in the saddle and ride mankind" contrasts with philosophical introspection.

Diane Sawyer presents an undercover investigation of some Food Lion supermarkets, the fastest growing grocery chain in the nation. Shows how old or spoiled food receives expiration date changes, is repackaged, and/or is treated to make it appear fresh. Discusses sanitation conditions and effective scheduling problems. Chris Wallace talks with "Earvin "Magic" Johnson about his failed comeback to the NBA. Sam Donaldson talks with restaurant patrons about fickle Washington, D. C. now that the Democrats are coming to town.

The poet struggles to come to terms with the death of a grown son.

Falling into Language is an absorbing and elegantly-written collection of essays on language, poetry, autobiography, memory, and dreams. In this pioneering work, Wallace-Crabbe explores the many ways in which the self--however provisional or fragmented--manifests itself in language. This is a book about beginnings and endings; it reveals the person in the poem and the critic on the move.

Following his earlier volume, The Amorous Cannibal, which greatly widened his reputation, Chris Wallace-Crabbe''s new collection continues his passion for irony with each poem using both the formality and playfulness of wit to evoke the unknowable and ecstatic.

Includes statements on Nancy Reagan by Nancy Reagan, Richard Allen, Bill Blass, William F. Buckley, Betty Friedan, Lyn Nofziger, Maureen Reagan, Ron Reagan, and Ed Rollin.

The poems in this collection move from psychological drama to expressive landscapes, from politics to the secret eloquence of household objects. "(Wallace-Crabbe) shows that verse from Australia can take its place beside the poetry of other great English-language cultures."--Peter Porter, Observer