BOOK BY P.V. LEFORGE

     THE PRINCIPLE OF INTERCHANGE AND OTHER STORIES (Paperback 
Rack Books, 1990, 177 pages, $7.95)
     
     Choirboys await the return of a Mexican bandit to their church--despite
the fact that he has been dead for 100 years; a two-bit comedian is inhabited
by the soul of his agent, whom he has just murdered; an obsessed police
inspector rents the apartment of a young prostitute who has just
committed the most terrible of crimes; an old drunk in Alaska invents a super
alter-ego to battle the pressures and idiocy he sees all around him.  These and
other characters come vibrantly alive in this finely wrought collection of
stories.

     THE SECRET LIFE OF MOLES AND OTHER POEMS (Anhinga Press, 1992,
62 pages, $8.00)

     "In language always fresh and expressive, these poems continually break
into a kind of surreal, melancholy wit.  Like one of the characters in his
own poems, P. V. LeForge is a mesmerizing storyteller with many voices.
                                                                            
          --Peter Meinke

                    When I was seven, I peeked
                    through a curtain
                    and watched my mother
                    placing ants on her clothes
                    to crawl up her sleeves
                    and across her bare, painted feet.
                    I saw her put them down her blouse
                    and smile . . . .
                                                   (from "Anting")