Book Reviews
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The Attending
Striding through the woods one autumn afternoon, with oak nuts falling, a red hawk sailing...
$19.95Blood Snow
In Blood Snow (Wave Books, 2022), dg nanouk okpik’s visionary pastorals mourn the melt, illness,...
$18I Fear My Pain Interests You
As the child of famous punk parents, Margot Highsmith is a daughter of privilege. When...
$19.95The Naked Don’t Fear the Water
“I was an Afghan named Habib,” writes Matthieu Aikins in The Naked Don’t Fear the...
$18.99Extinction Theory
In Kien Lam’s slim but fruitful poetry collection Extinction Theory, readers discover intimate rationales regarding...
$17.95Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Last May, I was lucky enough to get to spend a month in residency at...
$24Some Alphabets
How does language—with its rich histories, tonal registers, and lexicon—shape our understanding of ourselves and...
$18.5In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century
“One is startled—by a color, into being,” writes anthologist and translator Wong May as she...
$25Rainbow Rainbow
Lydia Conklin’s Rainbow Rainbow, published in May of 2022 by Catapult, is a groundbreaking collection...
$16.95In a Few Minutes Before Later
Brenda Hillman has thrilled me in her ten earlier books, among them her quartet on...
$26Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine
I recently discovered the pendulum wave. Much like Newton’s famous cradle, the pendulum wave involves...
$24.99Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise
The late Dean Young resonates with insight into the human condition in writing, “. ....
$16A Minor Chorus
One of very few things that can be safely said about fiction is that stories...
$15.95I|I
Katherine Indermaur’s I|I, winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize, is a...
$17.99Quaternity: Four Novellas from the Carpathians
Some years ago, I was invited to a small private theater to watch a horror...
$20.27Curing Season: Artifacts
Kristine Langley Mahler bookends her debut essay collection, Curing Season: Artifacts, with images of her...
$21.99A Thousand Curves
A man of a certain age greets the morning and considers ruefully the passing of...
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