Book Reviews

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  • Upright Beasts

    Upright Beasts

    By Lincoln Michel

    In twenty-five stories (twenty-six if you count an unusually haunting Note on the Type), Michel...

    $16.95
  • Landscapes on a Train

    Landscapes on a Train

    By Cole Swensen

    Swensen’s poems, arranged on the page in windowlike, prose-shaped blocks, do what the best poems...

    $17.95
  • Changing the Subject

    Changing the Subject

    By Sven Birkerts

    Birkerts writes particularly insightful essays about the multiple ways ongoing technological changes in our culture...

    $16.00
  • Illocality

    Illocality

    By Joseph Massey

    Massey’s taut minimalism converts the things peopling these landscapes—trees, fog, parking lots, the feral subject...

    $18.00
  • Look

    Look

    By Solmaz Sharif

    On the cover of Look is a copy of the first photograph ever taken, which...

    $12.52
  • The Telling

    The Telling

    By Zoe Zolbrod

    There is a sense while reading that the simplicity of a rote recounting is exactly...

    $14.00
  • Dark Green

    Dark Green

    By Emily Hunt

    That’s the heartbreak that the poems in the collection can’t stop nibbling at. What if...

    $17.95
  • Time Down to Mind

    Time Down to Mind

    By Graham Foust

    For Graham Foust, the subject to which he has returned most often across the arc...

    $15.95
  • Vilna My Vilna

    Vilna My Vilna

    By Abraham Karpinowitz (trans. Helen Mintz)

    Abraham Karpinowitz ... reminds us of this history and its unique cultural elements with a...

    $19.95
  • Anyone

    Anyone

    By Nate Klug

    Of its many strengths, perhaps the most important gesture of this book is to engage...

    $18.00
  • This Fatal Looking Glass

    This Fatal Looking Glass

    By Martin Corless-Smith

    Above all, This Fatal Looking Glass remains rigorously self-aware, aware of its textuality and...

    $16.00
  • Little Arias

    Little Arias

    By Kristen Case

    A poet who urges us to hold dear to all of our experience: that which...

    $15.00
  • Descent

    Descent

    By Tim Johnston

    Tim Johnston has crafted an intricate novel in which the reader gets to enjoy real...

    $15.95
  • Itself

    Itself

    By Rae Armantrout

    “I work it,” [Armantrout] writes in the title poem, “until sweetness // rises /...

    $24.95