Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
Farmers are few, and their work is extremely intricate, risky, and arduous....
$28.00Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader
Avant Desire offers an introduction to Brossard’s erotic lyricism and the span of her queer...
$26.95Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
Through this story of disobedient femininity, of a body turned against itself, of beginning with...
$16.00original kink
What is it to write according to a socially engaged poetics, to demand of one’s...
$18.00Rough Song
Rough Song represents the first English translation of Blanca Varela, a major figure in twentieth-century...
$17.95Sense Violence
The Swedish title of Helena Boberg’s second collection, Sinnesvåld (translated as Sense Violence by Johannes...
$16.00Sisyphusina
Proximity is often a necessary discussion tool for intimacy. Not that there is a prerequisite...
$16.00Rain in Plural
Poetry is engaged to dreams or a dream-state, and the surprising word-choices shift us into...
$17.95La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living
Through imperial violence we are made alien in our own land. “This belongs to you....
$17.95Hot with the Bad Things
Grieving violence creates a kind of horrific palimpsest of how the public choruses events....
$16.95Paper Bells
Awash with wandering loneliness, Phan’s lines vacillate from contemplative to biting, economical to allegorical...
$17.95The Fire Eater
Herein lies the beauty of Hernandez Diaz’s poetry: what is real is up for grabs,...
$16.95A Princess Magic Presto Spell
Jarnot’s poetry can serve as a model for a mother’s creativity and nurturing—a way to...
$16.95Silence Is My Mother Tongue
Saba and Hagos, a young girl and her mute older brother have been displaced from...
$16.00Side by Side but Never Face to Face
The idea of acceptance, riddled with reluctant connotation, sometimes betrays itself....
$18.00The Voice of Sheila Chandra
Ali strives to throw words out to the cosmos with the velocity of an electron....
$17.95Ajar To The Night
The book ajar, we witness ourselves becoming somewhat else. Ajar To The Night, we slip...
$4.99A Boy Named Courage: A Surgeon’s Memoir of Apartheid
Himmet Dajee begins his autobiographical tale in his youth, which is split between Cape Town,...
$25Hsi-wei Tales
Wexelblatt’s Hsi-wei Tales is a wonderful fusion of poetry and prose that captivates and holds...
$16.95Thrown in the Throat
Garcia’s “throat is [a] throne,” a poetics of reclamation and sensual pleasure. Yield to and...
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