Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
I Know Your Kind
Brewer investigates how drug use has ravaged a community and the lives of users, enablers,...
$16.00
The Happy End / All Welcome
No matter how many hours we may be chained to our office chair, no matter...
$17
Deep Salt Water
Deep Salt Water is neither political nor didactic; rather, it is a text that transcends...
$20.00
The Killer’s Dog
A well-tended, predictable life, upended in seconds, seems altered forever....
$19.00
Stephen Florida
...Habash trades in whales for altogether more mesmerizing imagery like cannibalistic octopi and an absolutely...
$25.00
Island of Point Nemo
When they are not deciphering multilingual codes, interviewing suspects, competing with Inspector Scummington, and stumbling...
$12.20
Red Shoes for Rachel: Three Novellas
For Sarah, the past, present and future bond into a formidable wall of fear and...
$17.93
Playing Monster :: Seiche
Narratives of trauma seem especially marked by the uncanny or unreal. The traumatized self is...
$17
Marvels of the Invisible
Molberg refuses to parse the usual polarities of religion and the natural world. She seeks...
$16.95
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
The “peace” to which Helen constantly refers is a condition of isolation, complacency, and self-satisfaction....
$24.00
Late in the Empire of Men
“Before I was a man I was a man / made of pixels,” Christopher Kempf...
$15.95
Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs
Collectively, Auker’s essays and prose poems describe both the prying loose of norms that have...
$24.95
In the Language of My Captor
The shifting meaning, line by line and poem by poem, attests to McCrae’s excellent care...
$24.95
The Absolute Letter
...reading through Joron’s volume is, à la Tanning’s painting, to confront one’s fundamental notions, linguistic...
$14.95
Overyellow
Overyellow describes itself as “a work about place —about the attempt to construct, through writing,...
$14.00
Meadow Slasher
Meadow Slasher begins as a book about a vagrant with questionable motives and turns into...
$14.95
Objects from a Borrowed Confession
As do lyric poems, the letters framing the book do double duty as the expressions...
$18.00
A Passion According to Green
Irwin’s book is full of fables—a talking cat who meets an ancient and growing mouse,...
$16.00