A fascinating new book, Magic Again: Selected Poems on Thomas Wolfe, co-edited by David Radavich and David Strange, brings together a wide variety of lyric responses to North Carolina’s arguably most famous writer, Thomas Wolfe (1900-38), author of Look Homeward, Angel and a number of other novels and plays. The title refers to a passage in Wolfe’s posthumously published novel, You Can’t Go Home Again, in which the narrator travels to Germany hoping to find “the old magic again.”