Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
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
Grief Sequence
In Prageeta Sharma’s collection of poems, her husband’s sudden death makes vivid their emotional and...
$20.00
When the Whales Leave
Early in the novella, Rytkheu writes that a “legend could be said to be a...
$14.00
Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition
At another point, she asserts, “The question is who to be writing this.” Writer, mother,...
$20.00
Not a Thing to Comfort You
It’s the sort of literary paradox definitely worth exploring. And it may be the very...
$17.00
The Museum of Small Bones
We delight in the distractions of the circus, though we understand its wonders are illusions,...
$19.95
You Are Still Alive
Rather than this dissipating energy, however, Stobb uses the material to perform serious, nearly Buddhist...
$16.00
The Clearing
Despite being caught in the eddies of loss, returning in memory and emotion to past...
$22.00
Paula Regossy
Crawford, like her characters, is not fearful, but bold and courageous in molding a novel...
$15.00
Try to Get Lost
Frank pays affecting tribute to the lives of her mother and sister, both now gone,...
$19.95
50 Miles
It’s lyrical, textured, natural, and unexpected. While the form these essays take are varied in...
$17.00
A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World
Over the course of ten essays, Rember delivers a withering, if darkly humorous, diagnosis of...
$24.95