Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
The Daughter of Man
Forgive me the spoiler, but L. J. Sysko’s debut poetry collection The Daughter of Man...
$13.46
A Duration
It seems it’s been taking me longer and longer to complete these reviews lately, and...
$18.00
Your Kingdom
In her tenth book of poetry, Your Kingdom, Eleni Sikelianos offers an exploration of life’s...
Western Journeys
Teow Lim Goh’s Western Journeys delves into the heart of what it means to be...
$21.95
Her Scant State
Barbara Tomash’s new collection erases Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady. From the outset,...
$18.95
Wave House
In her sixth book, Wave House, Elizabeth Arnold’s unpredictable poems mimic the incalculable movements of...
$18.95
The Corrected Version
This debut collection is a fascinating study in form and a powerful meditation on family....
$18.00
Love and Other Rituals
Love and Other Rituals is an inspiring story collection that explores a wide range of...
$18.99
Night Logic
Matthew Gellman’s Night Logic emerges at a time when states like Florida are going to...
$17.95
East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage
In East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage, Rachel Rueckert details her nearly...
$12.95
Flare, Corona
In 2020, amidst devastating wildfires and insurrections and a pandemic, we all seemed to collectively...
$17
The Geography of First Kisses
In a classroom, around the turn of the century, some writers and a professor gathered...
$21.95
Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery
John West begins his lyrical and carefully structured memoir, Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery,...
$25
the luxury
In his ecopoetic collection the luxury, Darren C. Demaree draws upon the four classical elements...
$16
Content Warning: Everything
At one point in their debut poetry book, Content Warning: Everything, New York Times best-selling...
$16
The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse
When I was studying poetry at New York University in the 1990s, my friends and...
$19.95
adjacent islands
In Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s elegant, bilingual collection adjacent islands, readers discover a minimalist world where...
$18
Pink Noise
Midway through Pink Noise, Kevin Holden’s second full-length collection, there appears what one might take...
$17.95
The Plague Doctor
You might be in the mood for a crystal-clear lyric, perhaps, or your lethargy demands...
$12.95
Rocks & More Rocks
About fifteen years ago, I wrote a review for Stephen Ratcliffe’s book of poetry REAL,...
$40
What Small Sound
“I’m here to bear witness to this deafness / that expands imperceptibly,” writes Francesca Bell...
$22