Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
A Calendar Is a Snakeskin
Kristine Langley Mahler, a married, thirty-eight year old mother of daughters, has reached a point...
$16
Nocturne in Joy
“My mother is Black / under the eyes in / twilight,” Tatiana Johnson-Boria writes in...
$12.99
I Want to Tell You
Jesse Lee Kercheval’s poetry in I Want to Tell You works toward a language of...
$18
Ishmael Mask
In Ishmael Mask, Charles Kell’s second collection of poetry, the poet extends his exploration of...
$16.95
The Age of Doubt
Trial and Error Who are we allowed to love? Who should we worship? How do...
$15.99
Forgotten Night
“Words rained all around me,” states our narrator in a moment of loss, clarity, and...
$20
Thirst & Surfeit
In Thirst & Surfeit, Elizabeth Robinson pressurizes language’s relationship to time, to history. In her...
$18
April Showers, May Flowers: 3 Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Hafiz’s Little Book of Life (Translated by Gary Gach and Erfan Mojib), Hampton Roads Publishing (2023)...
Further Adventures
Norman Finkelstein’s Further Adventures is the last of a trilogy of collections centered around Pascal...
$23
Love in the Archives
Losing a child. As you read those words, do you have a visceral reaction? A...
$18.29
Negro Mountain
The titular Negro Mountain in C.S. Giscombe’s latest collection is, foremost, a real place: a...
$18
In Everything I See Your Hand
The late Naira Kuzmich’s In Everything I See Your Hand is a startling and provocative...
$18.95
The Dreams We Share
Raphael Block’s new collection, The Dreams We Share, is a work of sustained and reverent...
$17.50
Tiny Extravaganzas
Diane Mehta’s Tiny Extravaganzas is an exploration of muses and isolation, and with references to...
$20
If Some God Shakes Your House
Franklin reminds us that Tragedy may be the most appropriate response to tragedy in this...
$17.95
The Upstate
In a time of environmental and civic toxicity, Lindsay Turner attends to our flailing integrity...
$18
Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History
Emily Strasser’s Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History is a book for...
$26.95
Journey to the End of the Empire
In 2004 I hitchhiked illegally into western Tibet, passing myself off as an Uyghur who...
$17.99
Soft Apocalypse
Leah Nieboer’s stunning debut collection of poems, Soft Apocalypse, captures the visceral experience of a...
$19.95
Āina Hānau / Birth Land
In the title poem of Āina Hānau / Birth Land, Brandy Nālani McDougall asks, “na...
$16.95
The Rock That Is Not A Rabbit
Having read the title poem three or four times, I’m still unsure if the rock...
$18
Living Room
The 1977 educational film Powers of Ten begins with an aerial view of a couple...
$17.95