Book Reviews
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East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage
In East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage, Rachel Rueckert details her nearly...
$12.95Flare, Corona
In 2020, amidst devastating wildfires and insurrections and a pandemic, we all seemed to collectively...
$17The Geography of First Kisses
In a classroom, around the turn of the century, some writers and a professor gathered...
$21.95Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery
John West begins his lyrical and carefully structured memoir, Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery,...
$25the luxury
In his ecopoetic collection the luxury, Darren C. Demaree draws upon the four classical elements...
$16Content Warning: Everything
At one point in their debut poetry book, Content Warning: Everything, New York Times best-selling...
$16The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse
When I was studying poetry at New York University in the 1990s, my friends and...
$19.95adjacent islands
In Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s elegant, bilingual collection adjacent islands, readers discover a minimalist world where...
$18Pink Noise
Midway through Pink Noise, Kevin Holden’s second full-length collection, there appears what one might take...
$17.95The Plague Doctor
You might be in the mood for a crystal-clear lyric, perhaps, or your lethargy demands...
$12.95Rocks & More Rocks
About fifteen years ago, I wrote a review for Stephen Ratcliffe’s book of poetry REAL,...
$40What Small Sound
“I’m here to bear witness to this deafness / that expands imperceptibly,” writes Francesca Bell...
$22Places We Left Behind
What if the person you love envisions a different life than the one you do—in...
$14.99Editor Recommendation: And And And
In a world filled with loss, diminishment, negation, Cole Swensen offers a book of addition....
$freeA Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
We all have our own lines in the world: A circuitous route that marches us...
$16The Poetics of Wrongness
In this book of essays, Rachel Zucker acknowledges that being heterosexual and white confer privilege...
$20Pink Waves
I went a bit mad with Pink Waves, Sawako Nakayasu’s beautiful poem. Why? For several...
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