Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
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
Meet Me Here at Dawn
It is a connection both chilling and intimate, when the speaker of these poems acknowledges...
$16.20
Two Reviews: Community Garden for Lonely Girls and Ugly Time
Each collection firmly recites a laundry list of damages done to the body, as well...
$16.00
Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems, 1997-2015
Bond is particularly adept in his ability to establish accessibility with a poem then, segueing...
$18.44
Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare
Kornfeld and Massimilla want to be as thorough as possible with each recipe, including cultural...
$33.95
In the Woods of Memory
This layered, textured novel throws into stark relief the interconnections between experience and memory, and...
$16.95
Five Reviews: The Sobbing School; Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last; The Wug Test; Scriptorium; and Trébuchet
All these collections, however, share an intellectual restlessness, a capacity for rendering the associative leaps...
$ Various