Book Reviews
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This Afterlife
Though I don’t follow sports in general, I never miss the Olympics. Each Olympic sport...
$30Blood Lines
Ann Bookman’s first full-length poetry book, Blood Lines, chronicles the anthropologist author’s search to find...
$19Toward the Winter Solstice: Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Your Face My Flag by Julian Gewirtz (2022) Copper Canyon Press Ezra Pound (in)famously defined...
Border Vista
Imagine waking from a dream. You remember where you lived and the language you spoke,...
$15.95Team Photograph
Liminal. The word comes to mind so often while I am spelunking through Lauren Haldeman’s...
$21.95Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice
Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice is not so much a...
$24.90Naming the Wind
In Steven Rood’s brave and lyrical debut collection, Naming the Wind, the quixotic project of...
$17.95The Air in the Air Behind It
Though in his judge’s citation Bin Ramke calls Brandon Rushton’s Berkshire-Prize-winning, debut collection of poems,...
$21.95Salt Water
Josep Pla’s Salt Water is quite the tome of Catalonian literature. At 450 pages, the...
$20Bratwurst Haven
A linked collection is such a readerly pleasure. As each new story begins, the reader...
$19.99Through a Grainy Landscape
The nature of longing permeates Millicent Borges Accardi’s most recent collection, Through a Grainy Landscape,...
$16The Judas Ear
Anna Journey’s poems are bravura acts of sometimes goofy joy framed by a sense of...
$19.95tender gravity
Though Marybeth Holleman is the author of several nonfiction books centering around environmental issues and...
$17.95Reverse Engineer
Kate Colby’s ninth book, Reverse Engineer, meditates on questions of knowledge and everyday experience, embedding...
$17The Real World
I’ll begin my review with this somewhat embarrassing disclosure: In recent years, I’ve been basically...
$2021The Lookout Man
With a haunting nostalgia that wrestles the past into the present, Stuart Dischell’s The Lookout...
$18Rational Anthem
Casey Thayer’s latest collection, Rational Anthem, is a meditation on American patriotism and the particular...
$17.95banana [ ]
Paul Hlava Ceballos’s debut poetry collection banana [ ] was selected by Ilya Kaminsky as...
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