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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 24, 1993                   TAG: 9301240217
SECTION: HORIZON                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: MIKE MAYO/Book page editor
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OF LOCAL INTEREST

The LSU Press has a well-deserved reputation as one of the more adventurous academic publishers. Its catalog regularly features fiction and poetry along with conventional scholarly works. The press also has a strong connection with this area, dating back to 1983 when it published Hollins professor Richard Dillard's novel "The First Man On the Sun." (It already had published his book of poems, "After Borges," in 1972.) Now the press has done a handsome job with Henry Taylor's book of criticism, "Compulsory Figures; Essays on Recent American Poets" ($29.95). Several of the poets he discusses - including George Garrett, Fred Chappell and William Jay Smith - are well- known in these parts, and many of these pieces first appeared in "The Hollins Critic." The aforementioned Fred Chappell also has a new book coming from LSU, a collection of 100 (count `em, 100) poems entitled simply "C." And later this year, LSU will publish Richard Dillard's all-encompassing collection of stories, "Omniphobia."

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