Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
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...
Asked What Has Changed
These poems imbued with issues of climate and racial justice bristle with sound, word play,...
$24.95
Names for Light: A Family History
If you can get past the knot of generational descriptors, geographical locations, and time periods,...
$16
The Deposition
Duval is not afraid to leave the reader guessing about the ultimate fate of his...
$19.95
Pilgrim Bell
Akbar invites his audience to read between the lines and find his shadow story—the truth...
$16
Bone Rosary
From his perch of eyewitness, Lynch presents to the literary canon his deeply considered treatise...
$25.95
Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
In Graceland, At Last, Margaret Renkl makes the stereotypes of her native country her business....
$26
Art in Time
I stamp my foot in applause, write notes on the pages, distribute my thoughts; Swensen...
$18.95
The Perfect Nine
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is, by both artistic and political measures, one of the most important...
$23.99
Now It’s Dark
Written in a time of loss and disaffection, the fatigue in these poems is insidious....
$15.95
The Memory Eaters
Central to Elizabeth Kadetsky’s stellar collection of essays about the nature of memory and grief,...
$19.95
Things That Go
When disasters fly by faster than billboards, how are we to bear witness to them?...
$16.95