cover image Obscene Gestures/Womn

Obscene Gestures/Womn

Janet Kauffman. Vintage Books USA, $8.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73055-2

Fifteen short stories, some written as prose-poems, focus on female characters. ``Other than a few instants of crystallized perception, very little occurs here, and the sameness of tone becomes wearisome,'' PW complained. (Nov.)