Book Reviews
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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...
$variousFor 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...
$32.95The Broken Word
The Broken Word is at first glance not a complete change of artistic tack. It...
$16Living Must Bury
In Living Must Bury, Josie Sigler’s first collection and the winner of the Fence 2010...
$16Also Known As
Much has been written on the subject of identity politics; by contrast, relatively little has...
$15.95Approaching Ice
Through two chronological poem sequences, Bradfield creates a new kind of log book. She traces...
$15Inside the Ghost Factory
Working from photographs and visual memory to create sparse but lyric poems, Norman Finkelstein’s newest...
$15The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
David Brooks’s The Social Animal is not a novel, though if it were released as...
$27The Irrationalist
Original, inventive: we want our poets to be bold. We want the poems to add...
$14Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Nature can be good for us. In a recent study, Japanese scientists found that walking...
$24.95The Waste Land and Other Poems
Beginning with the decorative language poem, “Drip drip drip drip drip drip drop / …,”...
$14Galley of the Beloved in Torment
Winner of the 2008 Orphic Poetry Book Prize, Kyle McCord's Galley of the Beloved in...
$17.95The Dandelion Clock
Daniel Tiffany's highly musical collection The Dandelion Clock presents Middle English phrases alongside song lyrics,...
$16Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy
Ira Sukrungruang's memoir Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy is a work firmly cemented...
Drowned Boy
Jerry Gabriel's characters seem to spring from the cracks in the sidewalks, allowing the town's...
$15.95The Caveat Onus: Meditations
Dave Brinks started writing these poems in December 2004, less than a year before Hurricane...
$14.96The Gift That Arrives Broken
Among the hundreds of poets publishing each year, some are most at ease in the...
$14.95On Tact, & the Made Up World
Michele Glazer's new collection, On Tact, & the Made Up World, finds the author experimenting...
$17.00Hollow Out
Surviving the arctic winter, dealing with a relationship pulling apart, and living in an Inupiat...
$13.95Shoplifting from American Apparel
Let's agree on the obvious: no book is for everybody. One book will always appeal...
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