Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Bardo or Not Bardo
Volodine’s novel is energetic, offbeat, fast-paced, and shows an off-kilter sense of humor. He writes...
$13.95Children of the Country
Set in a depressed blue-collar community in the isolated backcountry of Arkansas, the novel depicts...
$15.29Wedding Pulls
Brimming with characters, the poems are not narrative but tightly sprung lyrics whose wording reveals...
$14.95Scorpyn Odes
Browne’s challenge to how our world is and whether we should continue to stay in...
$16.95The White Swallow
The language is compressed, carefully wrought, every sentence doing the work of many....
$10.00Turning into Dwelling
Many of his poems don’t just push boundaries of time, place, race, and self, but...
$16.00Catechism: A Love Story
Claiming one’s “hidden wholeness” is a life’s work, and this book demonstrates one person’s passionate...
$14.00Neon Green
...the presence of the alien ship never overwhelms the meat of the story, a heartfelt...
$16.00Solar Maximum
Reading these poems is to be gripped by the uncanny: they're strange and familiar....
$18.00The Gustav Sonata
Tremain paints her picture of post-war Switzerland with care and steadiness, and the reader can’t...
$26.95Certain Magical Acts
Enchanted and incantatory, the poems of Certain Magical Acts resist convention and protocol, as Notley’s...
$20.00The Primitive Observatory
Brutal seasons, natural disasters, plagues, class conflicts, and wars torment isolated survivors. What will come...
$15.95To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light
To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light then is partly a quest to find...
$18.00Seeing Red
One evening in New York, Lina Meruane's body "seize[s] up" and leaves her "paralyzed, [her]...
$14.95Resident 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...
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