Book Reviews

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  • Fear Of Description

    Fear Of Description

    By Daniel Poppick

    Daniel Poppick’s second collection, Fear of Description, features a collection of sonnets, elegies, and autobiographical...

    $14.13
  • A Forgotten Evil

    A Forgotten Evil

    By Sheldon Russell

    Russell convincingly conveys the gory conflicts, the injustice felt by Native Americans and their acts...

    $17.00
  • Quantum Convention

    Quantum Convention

    By Eric Schlich

    Not only does Schlich have fun with content, but he also beguiles the reader with...

    $14.95
  • Silences

    Silences

    By Martha Ronk

    It presents a tension as well for the reader: if silence is total absence, an...

    $17.95
  • The Unnamable Present

    The Unnamable Present

    By Robert Calasso

    Central to the current crisis is a sense of instability and fragmentation inaugurated by mass...

    $26.00
  • Erou

    Erou

    By Maya Phillips

    The mythological narrative works as a framework here because of its inherent mystery—the kind of...

    $15.95
  • Beautyberry

    Beautyberry

    By Cassie Donish

    The concept of a theory becomes a rich, generative shape with its own kind of...

    $14.95
  • The Year of the Femme

    The Year of the Femme

    By Cassie Donish

    Interiors and the fullness thereof feel at the heart of this book, a gorgeous kind...

    $19.95
  • Time for Bed: Stories

    Time for Bed: Stories

    By Wendy Rawlings

    In a world where buildings are attacked and then collapse seemingly out of nowhere, it...

    $24.95
  • When I Can't Sleep

    When I Can’t Sleep

    By Robert Garner McBrearty

    Acutely amusing, cleverly twisted, thoughtful, and tender, When I Can’t Sleep is a formidable collection...

    $15.00
  • Fossils in the Making

    Fossils in the Making

    By Kristin George Bagdanov

    Strong images from the botanical, geological, mammalian, and environmental worlds sensuously create lines of emotional...

    $14.95
  • Another Kind of Madness

    Another Kind of Madness

    By Ed Pavlić

    All too often tropes in literature about the African-American experience are seen as representative of...

    $26.00
  • Nightingale

    Nightingale

    By Paisley Rekdal

    Ancient stories of transformation are again transformed by Rekdal’s telling, and it’s impossible to read...

    $16.00
  • Spiritual Exercises

    Spiritual Exercises

    By Mark Yakich

    Considering the weightiness of the subject matter—identity, love, language, and the limits of understanding—this collection...

    $14.73
  • Sight Lines

    Sight Lines

    By Arthur Sze

    The most important thing about these edits is that the old words are not simply...

    $16.00
  • Accommodations

    Accommodations

    By Wioletta Greg, translated by Jennifer Croft

    This woman’s story, and others like it, pepper Wioletta’s narrative, enfolding a charming bildungsroman into...

    $15.95
  • Blud

    Blud

    By Rachel McKibbens

    There are so many angles to loss, and as the speaker’s voice bellows in this...

    $16.00