Book Reviews
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The Body Alone
In The Body Alone, Nina Lohman doesn’t shrink from the conundrum inherent in writing a...
$24
The Fifth Wound
Aurora Mattia’s first novel, The Fifth Wound, is many books in one. Sarah Gerard calls...
$19.95
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
“Ostensibly I write novels and stories,” Danielle Dutton writes at the start of “A Picture...
$17.95
Sinking Bell
When I first read Bojan Louis’s short story collection Sinking Bell, I was an MFA...
$16
The New Animals
For the people who do not inhabit them, islands have always only represented either a...
$16.95
Absolute Away
In Absolute Away, Lance Olsen develops three distinct “movements” to structure a novel that takes...
$17.95
Interrogating Travel
To read Paul Lindholdt’s Interrogating Travel is to receive a wellspring of lived experience about...
$29.95
The Roof of the Whale Poems
In Juan Calzadilla’s The Roof of the Whale Poems, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and...
$18.95
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