Book Reviews
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Rust or Go Missing
The poems of Lily Brown’s debut full-length collection risk utterances that make belief an appealing,...
$15.95
Enigma and Light
If a poet’s work is words—the words that call forth the sun, that cause the...
$17.50
Negro League Baseball
Her poems are chronicles that frame their own engagement; in terms of Holiday's kinetic, long...
$15.95
Place: New Poems
Every so often, someone comes along who seems to defy neat categories, an American writer...
$15.99
Luminous Epinoia
For all the innovation and diversity in contemporary American poetry, there is a lexicon that...
$21
A Forgetting Of
A Forgetting Of, by Colleen Lookingbill, is a visionary work that ranges through one woman’s...
$12
I Want to Make You Safe
I Want to Make You Safe is the follow-up to 2009’s Slaves to Do These...
$15.00
No Grave Can Hold My Body Down
Against a poetic landscape filled with ironic detachment, Aaron McCollough’s work is refreshingly earnest. No...
$17.50
We Are Pharaoh
Robert Fernandez’s ambitious debut, We Are Pharaoh, asks its reader to begin at the “billowing...
$14.00
Bliss and Other Short Stories
From within their overheated cars and unstable relationships, the characters in Ted Gilley's debut collection,...
$14.95
Kindertotenwald
“At this point I think you might want to sit down, pour yourselves a drink,...
$26.00
Roseate, Points of Gold
Halfway through Roseate, Points of Gold, Laynie Browne appears to offer the key to decoding...
$15.00
The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold
The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold, Kate Bernheimer's third and final novel in the trilogy...
$14.95
Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America
Three murders, two lynchings, a history of racial violence, and very little sense. Thankfully we...
$24.95
Northerners
In Northerners, his second collection and winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize in Poetry...
$15.00
Compendium
Compendium means a concise treatment of a vast subject, and this small volume (six inches...
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Triple Review: Nick Demske, By the Numbers, and My Gargantuan Desire
For these three poets, the goal of experimentation remains the same as when Auden first...
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For Us What Music?: The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice
Jerry Harp opens his critical biography boldly asserting that Donald Justice “should be considered among...
$32.95
The Broken Word
The Broken Word is at first glance not a complete change of artistic tack. It...
$16