Book Reviews
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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
Grains of the Voice
This collection is, in essence, an act of singing. Each poem lilts, echoes, trills what...
$13.99
Striven, The Bright Treatise
Striven, The Bright Treatise, offers readers a graceful synthesis of art and ethics.... a point...
$25.00
Companion Grasses
It is a distinct feature of [this] book that it impresses into service both logic...
$17.95
You Only Get Letters from Jail
Jodi Angel's characters cannot be saved. They cannot get laid. They cannot buy a...
$14.95
Innocent Eye: A Passionate Look at Contemporary Art
As an artist and art critic, Patricia Rosoff knows that audiences often feel stymied by...
$19.95
Survival Skills
A greyhound refuses to run. The dog—bred for explosive speed and vicious grace—instead limps and...
$14.36
A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind
You have to be fierce to write, and perhaps even read, these poems. They follow...
$18.95
Animal, 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...
$16.95
If A Stranger Approaches You
Novelist and poet Laura Kasischke knows well the dangers lurking in dark corners of suburbia...
$15.95
Meaty
Relationships may crumble, the electricity may be shut off, jobs may grind us, our bodies...
$15.95
Road Scatter
Road Scatter, Sandra Meek’s devastating new book of poetry, aches with a sense of loss...
$15.95
Imperial Nostalgias
There is a problem, however, with this Romantic undertaking: the American frontier has long been...
$14.00
Small Porcelain Head
Small Porcelain Head is filled with beautifully crafted poems...which offer a thought-provoking relationship between form...
$15.95
To Anacreon In Heaven and Other Poems
Meditation would be too tame a word; instead, it is more appropriate to describe To...
$15.95
Corporeality
With deceptive quietness, Hollis Seamon's second collection of short stories, Corporeality, offers a penetrating look...
$19.95
Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice
“Like many Americans, neither Sean nor his family had given much thought to ‘public defenders’...
$26.95
This Constellation Is a Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010
Michael Heller’s poems, now available in their imposing entirety in This Constellation Is a Name,...
$22.95