Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Owlish
Professor Q is typical, in many ways, of the “modern protagonist”: so unfulfilled at work...
$16
Brother Poem
In Will Harris’s Brother Poem, the lines between reality and dreamscapes blur, and readers dwell...
$15.95
Live in Suspense
Midlife is a reckoning with our experience of time. The past seems impossibly far away....
$18
Winter Stranger
Jackson Holbert’s debut collection, Winter Stranger, winner of the Milkweed Editions 2022 Max Ritvo Poetry...
$22
Valley of the Many Colored Grasses
A few years ago, thanks to the magic of the internet, I bought a copy...
$18.95
Piano in the Dark
Set during the wider context of the global pandemic and within the personal history of...
$17.00
Then Telling Be the Antidote
I likened this collection, after an initial reading, to a canvas by Kandinsky, where broad...
$21.95
The Fear of Large and Small Nations
“Everyone probably gets entangled in a terrible relationship at least once in their life—even people...
$23.99
Shoot the Horses First
Orphan trains. Discovery of new moss species. Anti/love stories across race, ability, and socioeconomic class....
$18.99
Because We Were Christian Girls
The first time I read Virgie Townsend’s debut short story collection, Because We Were Christian...
$9.95
Three Books for Autumns Fading Splendor: Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Jordan Dunn (2022) Partly Press The leaves in...
Pretend It’s My Body
Luke Dani Blue’s debut collection Pretend It’s My Body: Stories places trans and queer people’s...
$17.95
A New Race of Men from Heaven
In Chaitali Sen’s A New Race of Men from Heaven, stories trade in understatement rather...
$17.95
All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis
The Greeks have a word for the desire to help people in need, explains Dana...
$19.99
The Daughter of Man
Forgive me the spoiler, but L. J. Sysko’s debut poetry collection The Daughter of Man...
$13.46
A Duration
It seems it’s been taking me longer and longer to complete these reviews lately, and...
$18.00
Your Kingdom
In her tenth book of poetry, Your Kingdom, Eleni Sikelianos offers an exploration of life’s...
Western Journeys
Teow Lim Goh’s Western Journeys delves into the heart of what it means to be...
$21.95
Her Scant State
Barbara Tomash’s new collection erases Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady. From the outset,...
$18.95
Wave House
In her sixth book, Wave House, Elizabeth Arnold’s unpredictable poems mimic the incalculable movements of...
$18.95
The Corrected Version
This debut collection is a fascinating study in form and a powerful meditation on family....
$18.00
Love and Other Rituals
Love and Other Rituals is an inspiring story collection that explores a wide range of...
$18.99
Night Logic
Matthew Gellman’s Night Logic emerges at a time when states like Florida are going to...
$17.95