Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
The Fire Eater
Herein lies the beauty of Hernandez Diaz’s poetry: what is real is up for grabs,...
$16.95
A Princess Magic Presto Spell
Jarnot’s poetry can serve as a model for a mother’s creativity and nurturing—a way to...
$16.95
Silence Is My Mother Tongue
Saba and Hagos, a young girl and her mute older brother have been displaced from...
$16.00
Side by Side but Never Face to Face
The idea of acceptance, riddled with reluctant connotation, sometimes betrays itself....
$18.00
The Voice of Sheila Chandra
Ali strives to throw words out to the cosmos with the velocity of an electron....
$17.95
Ajar To The Night
The book ajar, we witness ourselves becoming somewhat else. Ajar To The Night, we slip...
$4.99
A Boy Named Courage: A Surgeon’s Memoir of Apartheid
Himmet Dajee begins his autobiographical tale in his youth, which is split between Cape Town,...
$25
Hsi-wei Tales
Wexelblatt’s Hsi-wei Tales is a wonderful fusion of poetry and prose that captivates and holds...
$16.95
Thrown in the Throat
Garcia’s “throat is [a] throne,” a poetics of reclamation and sensual pleasure. Yield to and...
$16.00
Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World
This collection serves as a physical reminder of the ways we both move in the...
$16.00
Library of Small Catastrophes
What makes these poems so intensely moving, so worthy of an adoration to match, is...
$16.00
Habitat Threshold
As poets—non-journalists—we are frequently caught between conflicting expectations for our art. We are told not...
$17.95
To Limn / Lying In
At once raw and erudite, this slender book of essays packs a profound wallop. I...
$18.00
All the Great Territories
In the beginning, Wimberley struggles to mourn the loss of home, father, and country. And...
$16.95
Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
Goldbach’s conservative childhood was mine, and even if it's not yours, it provides a lesson...
$14.99
Cage of Lit Glass
These poems illuminate the seemingly endless cycles of violence that perpetuate government-sanctioned surveillance and incarceration,...
$16.95
Repetition Nineteen
By presenting the reader with twenty-five different translations of the same poem—which deliberately raises questions...
$18.95
Pale Colors in a Tall Field
That seems to be what Phillips sets out to do, to keep beginning, and that...
$23.00
Tracing the Horse
What does it mean to be herself in this Mexican-American culture? The last section moves...
$17.00
Ravage & Snare
The poems are muscular with allusion and wordplay, citing sources diverse as Old English poems...
$16.00
We Fell into Weather
It’s no secret that the world is changing radically; from massive (and righteous) civil unrest...
$20.00
The Blessing
Instead, he writes, “my beginning of trauma and violence led me on to a lifetime...
$15.00
Miraculous Medal
However, this slim, powerful volume presents a world so viscerally haunting, readers are likely to...
$15.99