Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland
The Icelandic word for “lava” is hraun, and there are over four hundred named lava...
$39.95Field Notes from the Flood Zone
Field Notes from the Flood Zone, the fourth poetry collection by Heather Sellers, opens by...
$17We Are Mermaids
Stephanie Burt’s newest collection, We Are Mermaids, is a time capsule of girlhood, a transfiguration...
$17Hysterical
Even as a five-year-old, Elissa Bassist hated the sound of her own voice. She memorized...
$29Almanac of Useless Talents
As a queer college kid studying poetry twenty years ago, I felt the sting of...
$15.95Homesickness
The Irish writer Colin Barrett’s second story collection, Homesickness, contains memorable portraits of characters who...
$27On Hysteria
Nancy Kuhl’s On Hysteria doubts and criticizes the idea of cohesiveness—of opinions, memories, and even...
$18Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking
Recently, I attended a wedding in the Catholic church on the campus where I went...
$16Breakpoint
While reading Betsy Aoki’s “techno-lit” poetry collection Breakpoint, my mind kept returning to a specific...
$17As Summer Tilts Autumnal: Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Whale Fall by David Baker (2022) W. W. Norton In poems as formally astute as...
The Forgotten World
The Forgotten World, Nick Courtright’s engrossing and multilayered third poetry collection, features the poet’s pre-pandemic,...
$15.95If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope
If Colin Fleming’s collection of stories If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope fails...
$16.95The Predatory Animal Ball
Jennifer Fliss jolts the reader awake in her debut collection, The Predatory Animal Ball. She...
$14.99XO
The prolific French novelist and memoirist Annie Ernaux opens Simple Passion—a slim autobiographical novel narrating...
$14It Must Be a Misunderstanding
For the past few years, I’ve watched my father’s steady decline as he’s suffered from...
$16.95Questions From Outer Space
Questions From Outer Space is about coming to terms with humanity’s destructive choices and orienting...
$16.952 A.M. in Little America
As with pop music and fashion, literature tends to follow the tide of emergent cultural...
$25Pocket Universe
Nancy Reddy’s Pocket Universe is a tender and expansive poetry collection on new motherhood. Following...
$18.95The Long Devotion: Poets Writing on Motherhood
While reading this wonderfully expansive anthology, I was reminded of what prolific feminist writer bell...
$26.95Genghis Chan on Drums
Whenever I read John Yau’s poetry or fiction, I am reminded of Johannes Gӧransson’s “foreigner,”...
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