Book Reviews
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The Monarchs
Noel’s unwavering awareness is so keen and rapt that as it perceives it also exerts...
$18The Devil’s Workshop
How do we memorialize twentieth century atrocities? And who decides what, why, and how we...
$15.95
Debts & Lessons
Loving engenders intimacy. The resulting proximity creates space for further loving. Lynn Xu’s song is...
$17.95
Large White House Speaking
Driven more by a simmering undercurrent of topic than form or principle of organization, these...
$15
Without a Net
Trapeze artists and animals. Freaks and clowns. Crowds, high-wires and swallowed swords. In the same...
$18.00
On Sal Mal Lane
In this era saturated with polarization: political, religious and economic, where opposing forces take sides...
$26.00
Ghost Moth
Forbes is a master of creating high tension and drama in the simplest of movements...
$14.95
The Ecopoetry Anthology
The Ecopoetry Anthology is a beautifully constructed, carefully planned, and intelligently framed volume. Readers looking...
$24.95Electricity & Other Dreams
These are challenging times for those committed to literary realism....
$15.95
Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
We know the stories, or we think we do. The Sixties....
$34.95
Two Reviews: New Works from SplitLevel Texts
Carla Harryman...and Catherine Meng...each offer an expansive poetics, suggesting that the inherited conventions of poetry...
$12
Through the Second Skin
Sheffield’s language is mined from observation and reflection. His imagination is grounded in flora and...
$21.95
Under the Sign
It turns out that ordinary mortality is the only limit to this openness, and here,...
$16.40
Swamp Isthmus
The beauty of this collection, formally and thematically, is the brio Wilkinson brings to the...
$14.95
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
Hillman has a penchant for including everything: she loves the sibilance and buzz of both...
$22.95
The Perpetual Motion Machine
By definition a great work of art is one that establishes and lives by its...
$12.95
Phosphorescence of Thought
The book’s form is fluid, a central current buoys its pauses; the book unfurls, as...
$17
The Poetics of Disenchantment: Buchanan and Meier
Poetry is always associated, to a certain extent, with enchantment—not necessarily magic, but a heightened...
$14.50; 15.95
Armor, Amour
The poems of Armor, Amour reveal a serious mind wrestling with important subjects. The book...
$16.00