Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Earth Is Best
O’Leary so brilliantly makes language itself a rhizomatic experience, a syntactical force that allows the...
$20.00
At the Gate of All Wonder
The story itself belongs to narrator Samantha Peabody. Samantha Peabody, as she sometimes refers to...
$17.95
Lonesome Gnosis
Scanlon’s poems operate at the moment of enjambment between the last two lines above, the...
$9.00
Fear Of Description
Daniel Poppick’s second collection, Fear of Description, features a collection of sonnets, elegies, and autobiographical...
$14.13
A Forgotten Evil
Russell convincingly conveys the gory conflicts, the injustice felt by Native Americans and their acts...
$17.00
Quantum Convention
Not only does Schlich have fun with content, but he also beguiles the reader with...
$14.95
The Unnamable Present
Central to the current crisis is a sense of instability and fragmentation inaugurated by mass...
$26.00
A Little More Red Sun on the Human
The collection begins with dramatic monologues and portraits, cinematic and enigmatic, that are more traditionally...
$19.95
The Year of the Femme
Interiors and the fullness thereof feel at the heart of this book, a gorgeous kind...
$19.95
Time for Bed: Stories
In a world where buildings are attacked and then collapse seemingly out of nowhere, it...
$24.95
When I Can’t Sleep
Acutely amusing, cleverly twisted, thoughtful, and tender, When I Can’t Sleep is a formidable collection...
$15.00
Fossils in the Making
Strong images from the botanical, geological, mammalian, and environmental worlds sensuously create lines of emotional...
$14.95
Another Kind of Madness
All too often tropes in literature about the African-American experience are seen as representative of...
$26.00
sound of wave in channel, Books I and II
Ratcliffe’s words carry in them the promise that, somewhere in this sustained observation, there is...
$50.00
Nightingale
Ancient stories of transformation are again transformed by Rekdal’s telling, and it’s impossible to read...
$16.00
Spiritual Exercises
Considering the weightiness of the subject matter—identity, love, language, and the limits of understanding—this collection...
$14.73
Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place
Take a moment to consider the word “hearth.” Does it make you think of the...
$18.00
At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered
Throughout his new poems, Levine operates as a poetic pantheist, locating vitality in the ordinary...
$20.00
Last Words of the Holy Ghost
Sometimes these stories are laugh-out-loud funny in a way that doesn’t feel cheap or forced,...
$14.95
Sight Lines
The most important thing about these edits is that the old words are not simply...
$16.00
Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018
Though the narrator seems to be an outside observer, the story feels intimate because we’re...
$15.00