Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Blind Man’s Bluff
What would you do if you were sixteen and lost most of your eyesight? If,...
$25.95
Sawgrass Sky
Organized into five breathtaking sections, Andrew Hemmert’s memoir-in-verse, Sawgrass Sky, dazzles me with its visceral...
$19.95
Factory Girls
Takako Arai’s Factory Girls is a protest book, whose patchwork of poems and narrative voices...
$18
origin story
The first thing Gary Jackson does in origin story is confide in us. Some poems...
$18.95Things Are Against Us
In a recent interview on the NPR show Fresh Air, a ninety-five-year-old Mel Brooks told...
$24.95
McMullen Circle
The vivid stories of McMullen Circle by Heather Newton take place at the fictional McMullen...
$17.95
As Winter Tilts into Spring: Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Heard-Hoard by Atsuro Riley (2021) University of Chicago Press The title alone of Atsuro Riley’s...
The Man Grave
Christopher Salerno’s The Man Grave is an exercise in duality—in studying the double-edged sword of...
$15.95
What if We Were Somewhere Else
In Wendy J. Fox’s latest story collection—What If We Were Somewhere Else—Fox conjures up a...
$15
In the Event of Contact
My partner asked recently what I look for most when reading short story collections. What’s...
$16.95
Glacial Decoys
In Trisha Brown’s Glacial Decoy, the performance that lends its title to Luke Roberts’s new...
Jesus Comes to Me as Judy Garland
David J.S. Pickering’s latest collection begins with a poem about feeling both at home and...
$18
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway
There is something quite private about annotating a book. Without thought to publication, writing in...
$35
The Silk Road
The characters of Kathryn Davis’ The Silk Road read as metaphorical appendages to one body....
$24
Maps of Injury
I have avoided writing this essay. This essay was really supposed to be strictly a...
$12.99
Rise and Float
According to the Victoria State Government (as in Victoria, Australia), “An object floats when the...
$16
Even Shorn
In a note on the poem “Drunkard’s Path” in her debut poetry collection, Even Shorn,...
$15.95
The Survival Expo
One could call it Middle America, the Heartland, Jesusland, or any number of other monikers...
$15.95
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
Daniel Sherrell’s epistolary climate memoir, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World,...
$17.00