Book Reviews

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  • The Forgotten World

    The Forgotten World

    By Nick Courtright

    The Forgotten World, Nick Courtright’s engrossing and multilayered third poetry collection, features the poet’s pre-pandemic,...

    $15.95
  • Anchor

    Anchor

    By Rebecca Aronson

    Rebecca Aronson’s Anchor provides consistent reminders of what it means to be part of a...

    $14
  • XO

    XO

    By Sara Rauch

    The prolific French novelist and memoirist Annie Ernaux opens Simple Passion—a slim autobiographical novel narrating...

    $14
  • It Must Be a Misunderstanding

    It Must Be a Misunderstanding

    By Coral Bracho (translated by Forrest Gander)

    For the past few years, I’ve watched my father’s steady decline as he’s suffered from...

    $16.95
  • fretwork

    fretwork

    By Michele Glazer

    In her intimate collection fretwork, Michele Glazer creates an expansive elegy that views loss from...

    $19
  • Questions From Outer Space

    Questions From Outer Space

    By Diane Thiel

    Questions From Outer Space is about coming to terms with humanity’s destructive choices and orienting...

    $16.95
  • Wild Kingdom

    Wild Kingdom

    By Jehanne Dubrow

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    $17.95
  • Pocket Universe

    Pocket Universe

    By Nancy Reddy

    Nancy Reddy’s Pocket Universe is a tender and expansive poetry collection on new motherhood. Following...

    $18.95
  • Irredenta

    Irredenta

    By Oscar Oswald

    Tucked between descriptions of the close combat occurring throughout major Ukrainian cities and the very...

    $16.95
  • Genghis Chan on Drums

    Genghis Chan on Drums

    By John Yau

    Whenever I read John Yau’s poetry or fiction, I am reminded of Johannes Gӧransson’s “foreigner,”...

    $17.95
  • Trickster Academy

    Trickster Academy

    By Jenny L. Davis

    With a wry humor that softens reality’s hard edges, the poems in Jenny L. Davis’s...

    $16.95
  • Asylum

    Asylum

    By Nina Shope

    Asylum is novelist Nina Shope’s disturbing and complex story of how men control women’s bodies...

    $16.95
  • Prelude

    Prelude

    By Brynne Rebele-Henry

    The poems in Prelude by Brynne Rebele-Henry strike like lightening on the night sky, with...

    $18
  • The Light That Burns Us

    The Light That Burns Us

    By Jazra Khaleed

    The suffering and displacement of refugees from the brutal Syrian civil war are given agency...

    $16
  • Abacus of Loss

    Abacus of Loss

    By Sholeh Wolpé

    When circumstances change, we change. As with any organism, a human’s survival is predicated on...

    $13.46
  • Possums Run Amok

    Possums Run Amok

    By Lora Lafayette

    In Possums Run Amok, teenager Lora Lafayette hitchhikes to destinations unknown, striving to quench her...

    $16.95