Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Valley of the Many Colored Grasses
A few years ago, thanks to the magic of the internet, I bought a copy...
$18.95Piano in the Dark
Set during the wider context of the global pandemic and within the personal history of...
$17.00Then Telling Be the Antidote
I likened this collection, after an initial reading, to a canvas by Kandinsky, where broad...
$21.95The Fear of Large and Small Nations
“Everyone probably gets entangled in a terrible relationship at least once in their life—even people...
$23.99Shoot the Horses First
Orphan trains. Discovery of new moss species. Anti/love stories across race, ability, and socioeconomic class....
$18.99Because We Were Christian Girls
The first time I read Virgie Townsend’s debut short story collection, Because We Were Christian...
$9.95Three 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...
$17.95A New Race of Men from Heaven
In Chaitali Sen’s A New Race of Men from Heaven, stories trade in understatement rather...
$17.95All 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...
$19.99The Daughter of Man
Forgive me the spoiler, but L. J. Sysko’s debut poetry collection The Daughter of Man...
$13.46A Duration
It seems it’s been taking me longer and longer to complete these reviews lately, and...
$18.00Your 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...
$21.95Her Scant State
Barbara Tomash’s new collection erases Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady. From the outset,...
$18.95Wave House
In her sixth book, Wave House, Elizabeth Arnold’s unpredictable poems mimic the incalculable movements of...
$18.95The Corrected Version
This debut collection is a fascinating study in form and a powerful meditation on family....
$18.00Love and Other Rituals
Love and Other Rituals is an inspiring story collection that explores a wide range of...
$18.99Night Logic
Matthew Gellman’s Night Logic emerges at a time when states like Florida are going to...
$17.95East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage
In East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage, Rachel Rueckert details her nearly...
$12.95Flare, Corona
In 2020, amidst devastating wildfires and insurrections and a pandemic, we all seemed to collectively...
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