Book Reviews

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  • Extinction Theory

    Extinction Theory

    By Kien Lam

    In Kien Lam’s slim but fruitful poetry collection Extinction Theory, readers discover intimate rationales regarding...

    $17.95
  • Some Alphabets

    Some Alphabets

    By John Latta

    How does language—with its rich histories, tonal registers, and lexicon—shape our understanding of ourselves and...

    $18.5
  • LIKENESS

    LIKENESS

    By Katrina Roberts

    Few collections of poetry are as inventive, thoughtful, and playful as Katrina Roberts’s gorgeous sixth...

    $22.99
  • Rainbow Rainbow

    Rainbow Rainbow

    By Lydia Conklin

    Lydia Conklin’s Rainbow Rainbow, published in May of 2022 by Catapult, is a groundbreaking collection...

    $16.95
  • Customs

    Customs

    By Solmaz Sharif

    Near the beginning of her new book of poetry, Solmaz Sharif employs a startling visual...

    $16
  • Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine

    Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine

    By Nick Francis Potter

    I recently discovered the pendulum wave. Much like Newton’s famous cradle, the pendulum wave involves...

    $24.99
  • Vapor

    Vapor

    By Sara Eliza Johnson

    Reading Sara Eliza Johnson’s second collection of poetry, Vapor, evokes a feeling similar to lying...

    $16
  • A Minor Chorus

    A Minor Chorus

    By Billy-Ray Belcourt

    One of very few things that can be safely said about fiction is that stories...

    $15.95
  • I|I

    I|I

    By Katherine Indermaur

    Katherine Indermaur’s I|I, winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize, is a...

    $17.99
  • Almost Obscene

    Almost Obscene

    By Raúl Gómez Jattin (translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Olivia Lott)

    “I WAS LIKE WEED but they didn’t smoke me” This is the opening poem from...

    $18
  • Curing Season: Artifacts

    Curing Season: Artifacts

    By Kristine Langley Mahler

    Kristine Langley Mahler bookends her debut essay collection, Curing Season: Artifacts, with images of her...

    $21.99
  • A Thousand Curves

    A Thousand Curves

    By Paul Nemser

    A man of a certain age greets the morning and considers ruefully the passing of...

    $18
  • Mongolian Horse

    Mongolian Horse

    By David E Yee

    It is easy to see how the stories forming David E. Yee’s debut collection, Mongolian...

    $21.95
  • 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