Book Reviews
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Hymn for the Black Terrific
Make no mistake: these poems are dazzling, bruised, brilliant. ...
$14.95The Diamond Lane
Karen Karbo’s The Diamond Lane offers a unique and humorous perspective on the materialistic values...
$18.95In Times of Fading Light
As Eugen Ruge's novel In Times of Fading Light opens, the year is 2001, the...
$12.00Two Books by Joshua Corey
While Beautiful Soul's oscillation between fiction and metafiction can seem somewhat slow footed, the rich...
$17.95You Good Thing
While Weir’s poems are full of loss and dissolution, they also insist on a presence...
$16.00You Are Not Dead
Throughout the collection, Xu's speakers use non sequitur to test the limits of absurdity and...
$15.15Miruna, A Tale
If the rest of the world were paying attention, we might note that Romania is...
$15.00The Forever Notes
Ethel Rackin’s The Forever Notes consists of three sections, “Notes,” “Pictures,” and “Songs,” all of...
$14.00Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir
“When you’re not in perfect balance,” Floyd Skloot writes in the introduction to Revertigo: An...
$26.95You 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...
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