Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body
In these smart and engaging essays, Shinner challenges us to reconsider our bodies—in particular women’s...
$22.00Dear Darwish
As a whole, Kornberg-Weiss’s impulse is to emphasize the relation of one’s purview of histories...
$16.00Missing the Moon
This collection shows us how the poem’s purpose isn’t to contain or reflect or make...
$17.95Beyond the Chainlink
Morrison's Beyond the Chainlink is a beautifully written collection, as philosophical as it is concrete...
$18Xylotheque: Essays
Renfro’s essays are profoundly moving, written in a rich, deeply felt voice touched with...
$19.95Ascension Theory
Ascension Theory, Christopher Bolin’s debut collection, is a negotiation between the poetics of knowing and...
$18The Clash of Images
Kilito’s style is that of a ponderous memoir with a capacity for drawing up and...
$12.95Transfer of Qualities
Ultimately, how we stand, how we inhabit space and what we touch in this realm...
$17.95The Biology of Luck
Writing is an act often defined by the conflict between faith and despair, and though...
$16.00Practice on Mountains
Bartone reveals the contemporary prose poem as inextricable from haiku, haibun, and the spare, image-driven...
$18Because I Am the Shore I Want to Be the Sea
Ashley experiments with metaphor to translate life into image and image into life for an...
$16Someone Else’s Wedding Vows
...the kind of love continually appearing in Stone's Someone Else's Wedding Vows, is the kind...
$14In These Times the Home is a Tired Place
The range of work gives the collection a texture of the unexpected. While many themes...
$14.95Everyone Here Has a Gun
Southworth creates surprising characters and unique narrative structures that stimulate intense thought and emotion. Everyone...
$24.95The Beauty and the Sorrow
Some events are so vast and complicated as to render them ultimately unknowable. ...
$17.00Seven Views of the Same Landscape
The stories in Seven Views of the Same Landscape demonstrate no simple progression toward moral...
$15.0088 Sonnets
Clark Coolidge is no stranger to crystalline poetic forms. But sonnets? Such a traditional structure...
$15.95Passage of Tears
“There is a painting by Paul Klee called Angelus Novus. It shows an angel who seems...
$21.00Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories
I grew up in Connecticut. More often than not, when I mention this to new...
$18.95A Conjoined Book
Those who like to think of poetry as the purest expression of a unified self,...
$17.95The Next Monsters
The Next Monsters is an accomplished volume, one that's as carefully crafted as it is...
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