Book Reviews
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Survival Skills
A greyhound refuses to run. The dog—bred for explosive speed and vicious grace—instead limps and...
$14.36A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind
You have to be fierce to write, and perhaps even read, these poems. They follow...
$18.95Animal, Mineral, Radical: A Flock of Essays on Wildlife, Family & Food
BK Loren is a thinking person. She observes the universe with a keen eye and...
$16.95If A Stranger Approaches You
Novelist and poet Laura Kasischke knows well the dangers lurking in dark corners of suburbia...
$15.95Meaty
Relationships may crumble, the electricity may be shut off, jobs may grind us, our bodies...
$15.95Road Scatter
Road Scatter, Sandra Meek’s devastating new book of poetry, aches with a sense of loss...
$15.95Imperial Nostalgias
There is a problem, however, with this Romantic undertaking: the American frontier has long been...
$14.00Small Porcelain Head
Small Porcelain Head is filled with beautifully crafted poems...which offer a thought-provoking relationship between form...
$15.95To Anacreon In Heaven and Other Poems
Meditation would be too tame a word; instead, it is more appropriate to describe To...
$15.95Corporeality
With deceptive quietness, Hollis Seamon's second collection of short stories, Corporeality, offers a penetrating look...
$19.95Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice
“Like many Americans, neither Sean nor his family had given much thought to ‘public defenders’...
$26.95This Constellation Is a Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010
Michael Heller’s poems, now available in their imposing entirety in This Constellation Is a Name,...
$22.95The Final Take
In The Final Take, Susko seeks to record something that puts to rest the aftereffects...
$8.50The Violet Hour
Though reductive and imperfect, it’s not so inaccurate to describe good fiction as the conscientious...
$26What You Are Now Enjoying
Each of Gerkensmeyer’s thirteen stories envisions an altered reality, a place nearly identical to realistic...
$17.95River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
A saline slurry of wastewater passes through rusted culverts and contaminated land, finally reaching the...
$24.95The Fact of the Matter
There is a set of instructions one should follow before reading Sally Keith’s The Fact...
$16.00Listening for Earthquakes
This poet is an interdisciplinary artist and the visual presentation of Listening for Earthquakes is...
$9Redstart: An Ecological Poetics
While there may not fully be an answer to, “Can poetry be ecological?” Redstart is...
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