Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • Coherer

    Coherer

    By Alicia Cohen

    Alicia Cohen’s stunning third book of poetry explores the possibilities of writing as an act...

    $15.00
  • Selected Poems

    Selected Poems

    By Keith Waldrop

    This is a poetics of careful deliberation, aware that language is a container that experience...

    $19.95
  • Four Weathercocks

    Four Weathercocks

    By Cassandra Cleghorn

    If a work of art can be considered a solar system, it’s then governed by...

    $15.00
  • Her Faithfulness

    Her Faithfulness

    By Liz Waldner

    Liz Waldner’s masterful new collection of poems, Her Faithfulness, explores the possibilities of a feminist...

    $16.00
  • Literature for Nonhumans

    Literature for Nonhumans

    By Gabriel Gudding

    Gabriel Gudding appeals to humans’ intellectual, artistic, and political selves by braiding fact, lyricism, and...

    $22.00
  • High in the Streets

    High in the Streets

    By Matthew Binder

    Matthew Binder’s High in the Streets is a transgressive novel packed full of self-destruction and...

    $14.95
  • One of Us Is Sleeping

    One of Us Is Sleeping

    By Josefine Klougart

    Danish writer Josefine Klougart has written an evocative, eerie novel of love and injury in...

    $15.95
  • Pike and Bloom

    Pike and Bloom

    By Matthew Nye

    Pike and Bloom, winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Prize at Lake Forest College, is...

    $16.95
  • Excommunicados

    Excommunicados

    By Charles Haverty

    Charles Haverty’s Excommunicados is a collection of subtle and many-layered stories that defy simple categorization....

    $17.00
  • Orbit

    Orbit

    By Arthur Vogelsang

    Vogelsang strives to reject mystery as a sacred notion; or, at least, that’s his literary...

    $15.95
  • What the Lyric Is

    What the Lyric Is

    By Sarah Nicholson

    Nicholson’s writing, which is by turns clever, jokey, and devestatingly ironic, seems to be so...

    $17.95
  • Heliopause

    Heliopause

    By Heather Christle

    The poems in Heliopause are nimble, intelligent, playful, and bold; there is wildness and surprise...

    $15.95
  • Evening Oracle

    Evening Oracle

    By Brandon Shimoda

    The poems of Evening Oracle began in ritual, as a taking down of the messages...

    $14.00
  • Seam

    Seam

    By Tarfia Faizullah

    Faizullah goes beyond the self to write about and translate tragedy, as well as explore...

    $15.95
  • Dog Run Moon

    Dog Run Moon

    By Callan Wink

    Moments of tenderness are rare in this collection, which sees lives ruined and cattle murdered...

    $26.00
  • The Inventors

    The Inventors

    By Peter Selgin

    To write a memoir is—on the surface—to undertake a contrasting examination of both the profound...

    $18.95
  • Post-

    Post-

    By Wayne Miller

    Miller’s task is to remove the fixed barrier that has separated public from private and...

    $16.00
  • Good Girl

    Good Girl

    By Sarah Tomlinson

    Tomlinson’s story tumbles forth with the rapid urgency of a young woman searching for meaning...

    $16.00
  • Upright Beasts

    Upright Beasts

    By Lincoln Michel

    In twenty-five stories (twenty-six if you count an unusually haunting Note on the Type), Michel...

    $16.95