Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine
Through his poetic practice, Ali argues for identifying chief concerns facing humanity and embracing the...
$32.95The Performance of Becoming Human
Borzutzky’s poetic vision is vertiginous, a mash-up of images and phrases reflecting the absurdity of...
$18.00Selected Poems
This is a poetics of careful deliberation, aware that language is a container that experience...
$19.95Four Weathercocks
If a work of art can be considered a solar system, it’s then governed by...
$15.00Her Faithfulness
Liz Waldner’s masterful new collection of poems, Her Faithfulness, explores the possibilities of a feminist...
$16.00Literature for Nonhumans
Gabriel Gudding appeals to humans’ intellectual, artistic, and political selves by braiding fact, lyricism, and...
$22.00High in the Streets
Matthew Binder’s High in the Streets is a transgressive novel packed full of self-destruction and...
$14.95The Tombstone Race: Stories
The fourteen stories in the collection, all set in New Mexico, peer under society’s stones...
$19.95One of Us Is Sleeping
Danish writer Josefine Klougart has written an evocative, eerie novel of love and injury in...
$15.95Pike and Bloom
Pike and Bloom, winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Prize at Lake Forest College, is...
$16.95Excommunicados
Charles Haverty’s Excommunicados is a collection of subtle and many-layered stories that defy simple categorization....
$17.00What the Lyric Is
Nicholson’s writing, which is by turns clever, jokey, and devestatingly ironic, seems to be so...
$17.95Heliopause
The poems in Heliopause are nimble, intelligent, playful, and bold; there is wildness and surprise...
$15.95Evening Oracle
The poems of Evening Oracle began in ritual, as a taking down of the messages...
$14.00Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories
In his debut story collection Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories, Edward Hamlin doesn’t...
$17.00Dog Run Moon
Moments of tenderness are rare in this collection, which sees lives ruined and cattle murdered...
$26.00The Inventors
To write a memoir is—on the surface—to undertake a contrasting examination of both the profound...
$18.95White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine
Janet Sternburg’s White Matter is a disquieting read. How could it not be? In it,...
$18.95Good Girl
Tomlinson’s story tumbles forth with the rapid urgency of a young woman searching for meaning...
$16.00Upright Beasts
In twenty-five stories (twenty-six if you count an unusually haunting Note on the Type), Michel...
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