Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
We all have our own lines in the world: A circuitous route that marches us...
$16The Poetics of Wrongness
In this book of essays, Rachel Zucker acknowledges that being heterosexual and white confer privilege...
$20Pink Waves
I went a bit mad with Pink Waves, Sawako Nakayasu’s beautiful poem. Why? For several...
$19.95Plans for Sentences
When I am most stressed—when a concern hard and intractable churns, when a thought restless...
$30Seriously Well
Helge Torvund’s Seriously Well is a case study in the complexity of simplicity, offering a...
$18.95The Attending
Striding through the woods one autumn afternoon, with oak nuts falling, a red hawk sailing...
$19.95Blood Snow
In Blood Snow (Wave Books, 2022), dg nanouk okpik’s visionary pastorals mourn the melt, illness,...
$18I Fear My Pain Interests You
As the child of famous punk parents, Margot Highsmith is a daughter of privilege. When...
$19.95The Naked Don’t Fear the Water
“I was an Afghan named Habib,” writes Matthieu Aikins in The Naked Don’t Fear the...
$18.99Extinction Theory
In Kien Lam’s slim but fruitful poetry collection Extinction Theory, readers discover intimate rationales regarding...
$17.95Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Last May, I was lucky enough to get to spend a month in residency at...
$24Some Alphabets
How does language—with its rich histories, tonal registers, and lexicon—shape our understanding of ourselves and...
$18.5In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century
“One is startled—by a color, into being,” writes anthologist and translator Wong May as she...
$25Rainbow Rainbow
Lydia Conklin’s Rainbow Rainbow, published in May of 2022 by Catapult, is a groundbreaking collection...
$16.95In a Few Minutes Before Later
Brenda Hillman has thrilled me in her ten earlier books, among them her quartet on...
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