Poetry. "A strange intelligence guides the works in THE NEW MAKE BELIEVE toward insistent, yet nearly ineffable, redefinitions of commonplace words, as if everything were, in being named, strange. 'Accident, ' 'law, ' 'memorial, ' 'wolf, ' 'pants, ' 'sex' and other such terms participate in intense proto-symbolic musicalities to reveal (or cover) what seem to be crucial yet cheerily personal insights into what it is to be alive as or in a person surrounded by a baffling world of dark beauty--and mysterious others. Denise Newman's work is here more haunting than ever, and as needful of contemplation" Norman Fische