Book Reviews
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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...
$N/A
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...
$various
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
Living Must Bury
In Living Must Bury, Josie Sigler’s first collection and the winner of the Fence 2010...
$16
Also Known As
Much has been written on the subject of identity politics; by contrast, relatively little has...
$15.95
Approaching Ice
Through two chronological poem sequences, Bradfield creates a new kind of log book. She traces...
$15
Inside the Ghost Factory
Working from photographs and visual memory to create sparse but lyric poems, Norman Finkelstein’s newest...
$15
The 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...
$27
The Irrationalist
Original, inventive: we want our poets to be bold. We want the poems to add...
$14
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Nature can be good for us. In a recent study, Japanese scientists found that walking...
$24.95
The Waste Land and Other Poems
Beginning with the decorative language poem, “Drip drip drip drip drip drip drop / …,”...
$14
Galley of the Beloved in Torment
Winner of the 2008 Orphic Poetry Book Prize, Kyle McCord's Galley of the Beloved in...
$17.95
The Dandelion Clock
Daniel Tiffany's highly musical collection The Dandelion Clock presents Middle English phrases alongside song lyrics,...
$16