Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
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...
$13.95Mot: A Memoir
Perhaps more than any other genre, memoir relies upon empathy. The memoir writer invites us...
$24.95
The Feel Trio
At its most basic level, Fred Moten’s The Feel Trio does what Herodotus did: it...
$20.00
Surrounded by Friends
In his latest book, Surrounded by Friends, Matthew Rohrer goes beyond befriending the dead to...
$18.00
A Different Kind of Same
The book is honest, brave, and soul-baring in its exploration of grief and clinical depression....
$11.11
My Pulse Is an Earthquake
Each of the nine stories is fully developed and stands firmly on its own merits,...
$16.99
When Are You Coming Home?
The care with which she creates these seemingly ordinary lives is evident. She lets her...
$17.95
Double Reveiw: Ozone Journal & Vice and Shadow
Peter Balakian explores the relationship between the lyric and larger social movements, envisioning poetry as...
$18.00; $25.00
Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
Colin Ellard’s wide-ranging and absorbing book is both an exploration of how human beings...
$19.95
Safekeeping
The scope of the novel is ambitious, but Hope has structured it wisely, and the...
$15.95
Cocky’s Joy
Michael Farrell’s 2015 collection, Cocky’s Joy, is ambidextrous, its right hand painting comic tableaux, and...
$24.00
King of the Gypsies
King of the Gypsies isn’t just a story collection; it is a poignant reminder that...
$15.95
Reckless Lovely
In Martha Silano's stunning fourth collection of poems, readers will encounter "velvety soup," "60,000 eggs,"...
$15.00
The Year of Perfect Happiness
In Becky Adnot-Haynes’s first collection of stories, The Year of Perfect Happiness, happiness is—not surprisingly—a...
$14.95
Flash Fiction International
It is not enough to read these stories once, which is why it will take...
$15.95