Poetry. With her new book of poems, WHITHER NONSTOPPPING, Harriet Zinnes has again welcomed the world with eyes wide open but with a curling lip, a sign that she well knows that what is out there may be beautiful but threatening demanding an irony that her pen knows well how to employ. Her words, economical and intense, reflect what can never be ignored: the majesty of a cosmos, the frequent frugality and misery despite the glory of its inhabitants within that enveloping cosmos. Ah, yes, she writes, "the poet who is anarchic/has a devil of a time." Be sure to check out Zinnes' other books, LOVER and DRAWING ON THE WALL, both available from SPD.