Book Reviews
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Headless 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,”...
$17.95A List of Things I’ve Lost
In her debut poetry collection, A List of Things I’ve Lost, Tiffany Babb lingers on...
$16.95Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara
In his debut collection, Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara, William Fargason explores...
$19.95Trickster Academy
With a wry humor that softens reality’s hard edges, the poems in Jenny L. Davis’s...
$16.95Asylum
Asylum is novelist Nina Shope’s disturbing and complex story of how men control women’s bodies...
$16.95The Light That Burns Us
The suffering and displacement of refugees from the brutal Syrian civil war are given agency...
$16Abacus of Loss
When circumstances change, we change. As with any organism, a human’s survival is predicated on...
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