Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Illocality
Massey’s taut minimalism converts the things peopling these landscapes—trees, fog, parking lots, the feral subject...
$18.00
The Telling
There is a sense while reading that the simplicity of a rote recounting is exactly...
$14.00The Book of Joshua
Sympathetically surreal, funny and tragic, The Book of Joshua is an unusual book, and an...
$19.95
Dark Green
That’s the heartbreak that the poems in the collection can’t stop nibbling at. What if...
$17.95
Time Down to Mind
For Graham Foust, the subject to which he has returned most often across the arc...
$15.95
Lingering Bilingualism
Brenner’s work . . . [illustrates] that Hebrew and Yiddish both played complex roles, and...
$29.95
Ladies Night at the Dreamland
The Dreamland is expansive, and you get the sense that Livingston would give every woman...
$24.95
Gateway to Paradise: Stories
One of the things Vollmer does best is highlight and sustain an act or relationship...
$15.95
Vilna My Vilna
Abraham Karpinowitz ... reminds us of this history and its unique cultural elements with a...
$19.95
We Who Saw Everything
We Who Saw Everything is a vast mnemonic for the event of our speaking of...
$17
Anyone
Of its many strengths, perhaps the most important gesture of this book is to engage...
$18.00
This Fatal Looking Glass
Above all, This Fatal Looking Glass remains rigorously self-aware, aware of its textuality and...
$16.00
Twelve Women in a Country Called America
Cherry builds each of these characters with long (and important) histories, condensing novelistic character complexity...
$19.95
A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write
Her sense of writing exists on a lofty plain—far from self-serving thoughts or motivations. Of...
$16.95
Two Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Agnes Martin isn’t painting any scene. Her grids portion out forms of emptiness. And so...
$18.00 / 15.00
Self-Portrait with Spurs & Sulfur
The persistent species of poem known as the “self-portrait”—hardy, it would seem, as the Pacific...
$17.95
Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy
Through a collection of poems quiet in tone but unflinching in conviction, Klink explores...
$20.00
War, So Much War
She attempts this ambitious goal by producing a text that tightly weaves a narrative of...
$13.95