Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Ascension 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...
$18Because I Am the Shore I Want to Be the Sea
Ashley experiments with metaphor to translate life into image and image into life for an...
$16Someone Else’s Wedding Vows
...the kind of love continually appearing in Stone's Someone Else's Wedding Vows, is the kind...
$14In These Times the Home is a Tired Place
The range of work gives the collection a texture of the unexpected. While many themes...
$14.95Everyone Here Has a Gun
Southworth creates surprising characters and unique narrative structures that stimulate intense thought and emotion. Everyone...
$24.95The Beauty and the Sorrow
Some events are so vast and complicated as to render them ultimately unknowable. ...
$17.00Seven Views of the Same Landscape
The stories in Seven Views of the Same Landscape demonstrate no simple progression toward moral...
$15.0088 Sonnets
Clark Coolidge is no stranger to crystalline poetic forms. But sonnets? Such a traditional structure...
$15.95Passage of Tears
“There is a painting by Paul Klee called Angelus Novus. It shows an angel who seems...
$21.00Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories
I grew up in Connecticut. More often than not, when I mention this to new...
$18.95A Conjoined Book
Those who like to think of poetry as the purest expression of a unified self,...
$17.95The Next Monsters
The Next Monsters is an accomplished volume, one that's as carefully crafted as it is...
$14.95The 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...
$15.95Debts & Lessons
Loving engenders intimacy. The resulting proximity creates space for further loving. Lynn Xu’s song is...
$17.95Large White House Speaking
Driven more by a simmering undercurrent of topic than form or principle of organization, these...
$15Without a Net
Trapeze artists and animals. Freaks and clowns. Crowds, high-wires and swallowed swords. In the same...
$18.00On Sal Mal Lane
In this era saturated with polarization: political, religious and economic, where opposing forces take sides...
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