Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
The Final Take
In The Final Take, Susko seeks to record something that puts to rest the aftereffects...
$8.50
The Violet Hour
Though reductive and imperfect, it’s not so inaccurate to describe good fiction as the conscientious...
$26
What You Are Now Enjoying
Each of Gerkensmeyer’s thirteen stories envisions an altered reality, a place nearly identical to realistic...
$17.95
River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
A saline slurry of wastewater passes through rusted culverts and contaminated land, finally reaching the...
$24.95
The Fact of the Matter
There is a set of instructions one should follow before reading Sally Keith’s The Fact...
$16.00
Listening for Earthquakes
This poet is an interdisciplinary artist and the visual presentation of Listening for Earthquakes is...
$9
Redstart: An Ecological Poetics
While there may not fully be an answer to, “Can poetry be ecological?” Redstart is...
$25
Four Chapbooks
In that layering of story and persona, these writers engage with the suppleness of female...
$8-10
Fibonacci Batman: New and Selected Poems (1991–2011)
Seaton’s project is a map which curves intricately, reflexively, and suddenly becomes a globe....
$19.95
Let Me Clear My Throat
As a rule, Passarello’s descriptions of sound are more tactile than aural, full of size...
$15.95
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