Paige Ackerson-Kiely. Penguin, $18 (92) ISBN 978-0-14-313268-4 Ackerson-Kiely’s third book of poems begins ominously. Some kids push a canoe into a river, but “this isn’t an occasion to talk ...

Placido Rizzotto While dramas about the scourge of the Cosa Nostra on Sicily and its people have long been a staple of Italian cinema, Pasquale Scimeca's "Placido Rizzotto" is more than a cut ...