Book Reviews
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Inside 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...
$13.00The Odds of Being
"Odds" are handicaps that offer a weaker player a chance of winning against a stronger...
$14.95Live Nude Elf & Live Nude Girl
both writers recognize the unavoidable aspects of sensationalism in their subjects; they alternately mock and...
Boris by the Sea
Matvei Yankelevich's Boris by the Sea is, as Rosemarie Waldrop says in her blurb on...
$14.00Prayers for Sale
Eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort has lived in the rugged mining town of Middle Swan since before...
$13.99Micrographia
Emily Wilson draws inspiration from Robert Hooke's seventeenth-century publication of the same name that...
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