Book Reviews

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  • Extra Hidden Life, among the Days

    Extra Hidden Life, among the Days

    By Brenda Hillman

    Hillman plays with the post-human—a hypothetical, ecological state following the extinction of humanity—but never abandons...

    $24.95
  • Rocket Fantastic

    Rocket Fantastic

    By Gabrielle Calvocoressi

    There is magic in the poetry of Rocket Fantastic. Bodies are gendered and more-than-gendered. Humans...

    $25.95
  • Baby, I Don't Care

    Baby, I Don’t Care

    By Chelsey Minnis

    Minnis notes that the “book was inspired by classic movies and couldn’t have been written...

    $18.00
  • North American Stadiums

    North American Stadiums

    By Grady Chambers

    In many ways, this is a nostalgic book—looking back and recalling old friends and scenes...

    $22.00
  • Of Sphere

    Of Sphere

    By Karla Kelsey

    Even at the level of syntax, words and concepts flow into one another. The poems...

    $12.95
  • You Are the Phenomenology

    You Are the Phenomenology

    By Timothy O'Keefe

    In the precision and beauty of its varied form, Timothy O’Keefe’s You Are the Phenomenology...

    $16.95
  • Mademoiselle Bambù

    Mademoiselle Bambù

    By Pierre Mac Orlan

    Merging crime, espionage, and absurdist fiction, French author Pierre Mac Orlan (born Pierre Dumarchey in...

    $22.95
  • Lances All Alike

    Lances All Alike

    By Suzanne Zelazo

    Only a few pages in, it’s clear that this is not what one could reasonably...

    $19.95
  • Big Windows

    Big Windows

    By Lauren Moseley

    Moseley does not just consider the boundary between outside and inside. Her poems also explore...

    $15.95
  • Headline News

    Headline News

    By John Deming

    A crucial component of the book’s success involves the meticulous balance Deming constructs between disarray...

    $17.63
  • Three Poems

    Three Poems

    By Hannah Sullivan

    Her rhymes are multifarious and carry out wildly different operations. They have been compared to...

    $14.00
  • Lunch Portraits

    Lunch Portraits

    By Debora Kuan

    Debora Kuan’s wonderful Lunch Portraits inverts and subverts this ideology of hunger, constructing poems that...

    $16.00
  • Caesura: Essays

    Caesura: Essays

    By Gary McDowell

    This is a book that wrestles with the expansive ideas of life and death as...

    $12.95
  • Rants from the Hill

    Rants from the Hill

    By Michael P. Branch

    Rants from the Hill, Michael P. Branch’s collection of humorous, sly essays is easy to...

    $14.95
  • Sleeping Dragons: Stories

    Sleeping Dragons: Stories

    By Magela Baudoin

    Largely ominous and somber in tone, the concise, intelligent fiction contained in Sleeping Dragons will...

    $16.95
  • Sonata in K

    Sonata in K

    By Karen An-hwei Lee

    At its most basic level, Sonata is a thought experiment. It asks: What if...

    $14.00
  • Evening

    Evening

    By Ethel Rackin

    Rackin’s language is rich with wordplay, double meanings and subtle cross-references that never distract us...

    $12.00