Book Reviews
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Rise and Float
According to the Victoria State Government (as in Victoria, Australia), “An object floats when the...
$16
Even Shorn
In a note on the poem “Drunkard’s Path” in her debut poetry collection, Even Shorn,...
$15.95
The Survival Expo
One could call it Middle America, the Heartland, Jesusland, or any number of other monikers...
$15.95
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
Daniel Sherrell’s epistolary climate memoir, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World,...
$17.00
A Harp in the Stars
The term “lyric essay” has been with us for nearly thirty years, and while it...
$24.95
Hesitancies
Sanjeev Sethi is a mature and conscious poet—rare qualities among writers of contemporary Indian-English poetry....
$13.99
The Whole Picture Show
Arthur McMaster’s The Whole Picture Show offers a breathtakingly beautiful portrait of everyday life. As...
$13.78
Noise Cancellation
Noise and signal are parts of the same phenomenon, but signal is the information the...
$12.99
The River in the Belly
The Congo River of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s The River in the Belly is more than...
$15.95
Vibratory Milieu
In the “Notes” to Vibratory Milieu, Carrie Hunter describes the book as a work of...
$16.95
The Clarity of Hunger
Cheryl Pappas’s debut flash fiction collection, The Clarity of Hunger, explores longing of all kinds....
$10
Her Read: A Graphic Poem
Our expectations about what a book is and might contain are constantly evolving. In our...
$29.95
Moth Funerals
Gaja Rajan writes in the first poem of Moth Funerals, “You’ve heard this one before,”...
$8.50
Alien Stories
In Alien Stories, Nigerian-born E. C. Osondu collects playful parables of immigrants and exotic cultures,...
$17
Farm Girl: a Memoir
Megan Baxter’s Farm Girl is more than a memoir of a woman working on a...
$19.95
No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man
Tobias Wray’s debut poetry collection, No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man, adapts its...
$18
Imagine Us, The Swarm
Muriel Leung’s powerful second book is divided into seven parts, each of which are formally...
$16.95
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
Following the multiple-award-winning success of Obit, Victoria Chang’s Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and...
$25
Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
Women have always walked. Walking is in our “molecular memories,” Annabel Abbs insists in her...
$26.95
Cry Baby Mystic
Daniel Tiffany’s new book wears a sandpaper shirt, the title marked in black crayon, smeared....
$14.99
Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy
The thing about dad jokes is that they’re not for you; they’re for your father....
$12.99
These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson wrote that “biography first convinces us of the fleeing of the Biographed.” And,...
$16.95
Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
MPH and Other Road Poems by Ed Roberson (2021) Verge Books There’s a line Emerson...