Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • Blessing the Exoskeleton

    Blessing the Exoskeleton

    By Andrew Hemmert

    Part individual plea, part millennial manifesto, Andrew Hemmert’s Blessing the Exoskeleton combines displacement, homesickness, and...

    $18
  • A Single Rose

    A Single Rose

    By Muriel Barbery

    Muriel Barbery’s A Single Rose follows a French botanist’s emotional tour through the Zen gardens...

    $22
  • Y/N

    Y/N

    By Esther Yi

    Hope may be the thing with feathers, but according to Søren Kierkegaard, it can fly...

    $26
  • The New Gods

    The New Gods

    By William O'Daly

    William O’Daly is known as one of the preeminent translators of the poetry of Pablo...

    $20
  • Raven's Echo

    Raven’s Echo

    By Robert David Hoffman

    The pleasure of writing a book review is, for me, found in the deeper level...

    $16.95
  • The Face of the Quartzes

    The Face of the Quartzes

    By Chus Pato (translated by Erín Moure)

    The poems in Chus Pato’s The Face of the Quartzes, as translated from Galician into...

    $19
  • The Symmetry of Fish

    The Symmetry of Fish

    By Su Cho

    In Su Cho’s moving debut, The Symmetry of Fish, language, culture, and family form a...

    $18
  • Figment

    Figment

    By Leila Chatti

    “I saw you shadow of / a shadow / maybe I thought / I made...

    $24.95
  • Book of the Cold

    Book of the Cold

    By Antonio Gamoneda (translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez)

    Given the social unrest that has occurred over the past few years, it seems, at...

    $16
  • Bloomer

    Bloomer

    By Jessica Hincapie

    How does a poet write down their journey of personal maturity in rendered honesty? That’s...

    $18
  • This Afterlife

    This Afterlife

    By A. E. Stallings

    Though I don’t follow sports in general, I never miss the Olympics. Each Olympic sport...

    $30
  • Yearn

    Yearn

    By Rage Hezekiah

    Rage Hezekiah’s latest collection, Yearn—a winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Book Contest—is so sensuous...

    $18
  • Dogged

    Dogged

    By Stacy Gnall

    Dogged, by Stacy Gnall, is a collection of poems that explores the relationship between the...

    $16.95
  • Earthborn

    Earthborn

    By Carl Dennis

    Paul Klee once described drawing as “taking a line out for a walk.” Carl Dennis...

    $20
  • Blood Lines

    Blood Lines

    By Ann Bookman

    Ann Bookman’s first full-length poetry book, Blood Lines, chronicles the anthropologist author’s search to find...

    $19
  • Café Shira

    Café Shira

    By David Ehrlich (translated by Michael Swirsky)

    Café Shira isn’t simply a place to grab cup of coffee. Oh, no. For many,...

    $22.95
  • Border Vista

    Border Vista

    By Anni Liu

    Imagine waking from a dream. You remember where you lived and the language you spoke,...

    $15.95
  • Team Photograph

    Team Photograph

    By Lauren Haldeman

    Liminal. The word comes to mind so often while I am spelunking through Lauren Haldeman’s...

    $21.95