Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
As Winter Tilts into Spring: Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Heard-Hoard by Atsuro Riley (2021) University of Chicago Press The title alone of Atsuro Riley’s...
The Man Grave
Christopher Salerno’s The Man Grave is an exercise in duality—in studying the double-edged sword of...
$15.95
What if We Were Somewhere Else
In Wendy J. Fox’s latest story collection—What If We Were Somewhere Else—Fox conjures up a...
$15
In the Event of Contact
My partner asked recently what I look for most when reading short story collections. What’s...
$16.95
Glacial Decoys
In Trisha Brown’s Glacial Decoy, the performance that lends its title to Luke Roberts’s new...
Jesus Comes to Me as Judy Garland
David J.S. Pickering’s latest collection begins with a poem about feeling both at home and...
$18
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway
There is something quite private about annotating a book. Without thought to publication, writing in...
$35
The Silk Road
The characters of Kathryn Davis’ The Silk Road read as metaphorical appendages to one body....
$24
Maps of Injury
I have avoided writing this essay. This essay was really supposed to be strictly a...
$12.99
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