THINGS I SHOULD HAVE SAID TO MY...

THINGS I SHOULD HAVE SAID TO MY FATHER compiled by Joanna Powell (Avon: $10; 129 pp., paperback original). Mother’s Day spawns an unremitting stream of mush; Father’s Day evokes more complex and often conflicting emotions. In these interviews and quotes, various figures in the arts and popular culture express pride, joy, anger, affection, dissatisfaction and unfulfilled longings for closeness. Sam Shepard sets the tone for the collection when he describes how he sees his father in himself: “ . . . WHAM, there’s my old man. Right there, living inside me like a worm in the wood.”