Book Reviews

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  • Scorpyn Odes

    Scorpyn Odes

    By Laynie Browne

    Browne’s challenge to how our world is and whether we should continue to stay in...

    $16.95
  • The White Swallow

    The White Swallow

    By Anna Kovatcheva

    The language is compressed, carefully wrought, every sentence doing the work of many....

    $10.00
  • Turning into Dwelling

    Turning into Dwelling

    By Christopher Gilbert

    Many of his poems don’t just push boundaries of time, place, race, and self, but...

    $16.00
  • Catechism: A Love Story

    Catechism: A Love Story

    By Julie Marie Wade

    Claiming one’s “hidden wholeness” is a life’s work, and this book demonstrates one person’s passionate...

    $14.00
  • Neon Green

    Neon Green

    By Margaret Wappler

    ...the presence of the alien ship never overwhelms the meat of the story, a heartfelt...

    $16.00
  • Viability

    Viability

    By Sarah Vap

    Vap layers and links words and contexts, highlighting how we are ultimately bound by the...

    $22.00
  • Solar Maximum

    Solar Maximum

    By Sueyeun Juliette Lee

    Reading these poems is to be gripped by the uncanny: they're strange and familiar....

    $18.00
  • 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