Book Reviews
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Dear Ms. Schubert
Listen to the bird song. As Lipska writes,” “It’s just an untreated case of chronic...
$19.95
Abundance: A Novel
When Henry enters a Walmart to steal medicine for his sick child, he glances up...
$16.00
Wild Swims: Stories
Nors achieves exquisite interiority in these narratives, burrowing so precisely into a character’s memory and...
$15.00
trans(re)lating house one
Missaghi’s book maps the city and its dead, maps the way women move and act...
$17.95
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass is a call to action that combines memoir, Indigenous storytelling, and scientific writing....
$18.00
Let Me Think: Stories
The seventy-one pieces in this dexterous, surprising collection are often weird and unexpectedly weighty, particularly...
$16.00
The Animal at Your Side
In the absence of family, the self becomes sister, becomes multiple, becomes animal—more fiercely present...
$16.00
Queenzenglish.mp3: poetry | philosophy | performativity
As we share the same codified language predilections, we share the same thoughts and perceptions....
$20.00
Sybelia Drive
The approach feels organic, echoing the experience of families receiving letters from Vietnam “in lots...
$18.95
Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World
It is this kind of brokenness that Sinor seems to be talking about: not a...
$19.95
Site Fidelity: Stories
Boyles has written stories of surprising range, while maintaining a focus on how human beings—particularly...
$25.95
My Husband Would
There is no shortage of wonder and love in this collection, despite the omnipresence of...
$14.00
One Less River
One Less River [is] a collection that rewards us over and again for joining its...
$16.95
Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays
Her family relocates to a double-wide trailer in Saudi Arabia, a Kensington flat in an...
$22.95
Not for Luck
Sheffield is emotionally present without sentimentality or clever guile. He offers us a gift of...
$15.95
The Best Prey
Quiñones situates desire as the fluxing heart of the collection and imbues its hunger with...
$17.95
The Leave-Takers
Laynie Jackman darts across the country “taking leave of the dead” by dispersing the belongings...
$24.95
We the Jury
Creating sympathy is the poet’s role, and learning to sympathize is our only salvation....
$16.00![wyrd] bird](https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2021/05/wyrd-bird-400x600.jpg)
wyrd] bird
Stancek opens a dialectic between the speaker and mystic Hildegard of Bingen that will surface,...
$17.95
The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
The Best of Brevity is a collection of playdough lumps, each squeezed by a different...
$16.95
The Earliest Witnesses
These poems teach us about the sacrilege and sacraments of ingestion, the body our only...
$18.95