Book Reviews
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These poems take on the historical and current oppression of Black Americans, particularly Black women—including...
$18.00
The Gone Dead
Even with the harsh realities presented in the novel, there is a love of place...
$26.99
Republic Café
Biespiel grapples with global crisis through the lens of the individual—specifically the relationship between two...
$19.95
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
The softness with which Renkl delivers the atrocities of life makes the joys of life...
$24.00
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