Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Pink Noise
Midway through Pink Noise, Kevin Holden’s second full-length collection, there appears what one might take...
$17.95The Plague Doctor
You might be in the mood for a crystal-clear lyric, perhaps, or your lethargy demands...
$12.95Rocks & More Rocks
About fifteen years ago, I wrote a review for Stephen Ratcliffe’s book of poetry REAL,...
$40What Small Sound
“I’m here to bear witness to this deafness / that expands imperceptibly,” writes Francesca Bell...
$22Places We Left Behind
What if the person you love envisions a different life than the one you do—in...
$14.99Editor Recommendation: And And And
In a world filled with loss, diminishment, negation, Cole Swensen offers a book of addition....
$freeA Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
We all have our own lines in the world: A circuitous route that marches us...
$16The Poetics of Wrongness
In this book of essays, Rachel Zucker acknowledges that being heterosexual and white confer privilege...
$20Pink Waves
I went a bit mad with Pink Waves, Sawako Nakayasu’s beautiful poem. Why? For several...
$19.95Plans for Sentences
When I am most stressed—when a concern hard and intractable churns, when a thought restless...
$30Seriously Well
Helge Torvund’s Seriously Well is a case study in the complexity of simplicity, offering a...
$18.95The Attending
Striding through the woods one autumn afternoon, with oak nuts falling, a red hawk sailing...
$19.95Blood Snow
In Blood Snow (Wave Books, 2022), dg nanouk okpik’s visionary pastorals mourn the melt, illness,...
$18I Fear My Pain Interests You
As the child of famous punk parents, Margot Highsmith is a daughter of privilege. When...
$19.95The Naked Don’t Fear the Water
“I was an Afghan named Habib,” writes Matthieu Aikins in The Naked Don’t Fear the...
$18.99Extinction Theory
In Kien Lam’s slim but fruitful poetry collection Extinction Theory, readers discover intimate rationales regarding...
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