Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • Near Strangers

    Near Strangers

    By Marian Crotty

    “Almost as soon as I began, it was obvious I was too rusty,” relates the...

    $18.95
  • Women Surrounded by Water

    Women Surrounded by Water

    By Patricia Coral

    When I was considering American University’s MFA program, it was then-student Patricia Coral who convinced...

    $19.95
  • Red Ocher

    Red Ocher

    By Jessica Poli

    Jessica Poli’s debut collection, Red Ocher, stirs with its reverential questioning of ritual, boundary, and...

    $19.95
  • Inner Verses

    Inner Verses

    By Pam Rehm

    Pam Rehm’s seventh collection and her first with Wave Books, Inner Verses, gifts the reader...

    $18
  • The Fire Road

    The Fire Road

    By Nicholas Yingling

    Nicholas Yingling’s debut, The Fire Road, is a place-based poetry collection focusing on Western wildfires...

    $18
  • Displaced Persons

    Displaced Persons

    By Joan Leegant

    Belonging. A powerful word. Just reading “belonging” can stir up strong emotions. There may be...

    $18
  • Cecilia

    Cecilia

    By K-Ming Chang

    First encounters with sexual feelings and relationships can be a clumsy, bewildering mix of indescribable...

    $14.95
  • High Hawk

    High Hawk

    By Amy Frykholm

    According to Alice Nighthawk, one of the principal characters in Amy Frykholm’s debut novel High...

    $19
  • Mom in Space

    Mom in Space

    By Lisa Ampleman

    Driven by an infectious curiosity even amid calamity, Mom in Space explores the stunning insights...

    $22.95
  • The Singularity

    The Singularity

    By Balsam Karam

    The title of Balsam Karam’s novel, The Singularity, is also a description of its formal...

    $16.95
  • Ghost Man on Second

    Ghost Man on Second

    By Erica Reid

    Erica Reid’s “Ghost Man,” an imaginary man who held the speaker’s place on bases during...

    $17.95
  • The Avian Hourglass

    The Avian Hourglass

    By Lindsey Drager

    An unnamed town with an unnamed narrator are at the center of The Avian Hourglass’s...

    $17.95
  • Silent Light

    Silent Light

    By Mark Jacobs

    In this epic journey through brutalized, fractured communities within the Democratic Republic of the Congo,...

    $23
  • The Coin

    The Coin

    By Yasmin Zaher

    Money pervades language. We talk about what our time is worth, whether others will get...

    $27
  • Final Engagement

    Final Engagement

    By Christopher L. Izant

    Don’t read Christopher Izant’s memoir if you’re looking for answers. The author served as a...

    $29.99
  • The Signalman

    The Signalman

    By Ezra Miles

    In Ezra Miles’s The Signalman, the weight of silence and solitude lowers and reshapes an...

    $17
  • The Real Ethereal

    The Real Ethereal

    By Katie Naughton

    Katie Naughton’s first book of poetry, The Real Ethereal, is as timely as it is...

    $20
  • Four Fields

    Four Fields

    By Dorinda Wegener

    Dorinda Wegener’s debut collection Four Fields builds a world for the reader to step into...

    $18
  • Fanling in October

    Fanling in October

    By Pui Ying Wong

    Fanling in October opens with a journey back to Pui Ying Wong’s Hong Kong roots,...

    $18
  • Beforelight

    Beforelight

    By Matthew Gellman

    Incorporating a few of the poems and themes that appeared in his collection Night Logic,...

    $18
  • To Be Named Something Else

    To Be Named Something Else

    By Shaina Phenix

    Dripping with water and blood, bursting with song and mourning, dancing with ancestral and future...

    $19.95
  • Synthetic Jungle

    Synthetic Jungle

    By Michael Chang

    As I read Synthetic Jungle, the third full-length collection Michael Chang has published since 2021,...

    $18