Book Reviews

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  • The Gustav Sonata

    The Gustav Sonata

    By Rose Tremain

    Tremain paints her picture of post-war Switzerland with care and steadiness, and the reader can’t...

    $26.95
  • Certain Magical Acts

    Certain Magical Acts

    By Alice Notley

    Enchanted and incantatory, the poems of Certain Magical Acts resist convention and protocol, as Notley’s...

    $20.00
  • Receipt

    Receipt

    By Karen Leona Anderson

    These poems are spring-loaded: by turns quirky, tough, and always clear-sighted....

    $16.00
  • The Primitive Observatory

    The Primitive Observatory

    By Gregory Kimbrell

    Brutal seasons, natural disasters, plagues, class conflicts, and wars torment isolated survivors. What will come...

    $15.95
  • Seeing Red

    Seeing Red

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    By Lina Meruane, translated by Megan McDowell

    One evening in New York, Lina Meruane's body "seize[s] up" and leaves her "paralyzed, [her]...

    $14.95
  • Road Trip

    Road Trip

    By Lynette D'Amico

    In text segments set apart by eerie black and white photographs and simple headings, the...

    $7.05
  • 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