Book Reviews

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  • Mothersalt

    Mothersalt

    By Mia Ayumi Malhotra

    Mothersalt, Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s second collection, stretches the limits of genre just as the speaker’s...

    $24.95
  • Chaotic Good

    Chaotic Good

    By Isabelle Baafi

    “I choose right. I choose what’s right. / I choose left. I choose what’s left....

    $16.95
  • Scream / Queen

    Scream / Queen

    By CD Eskilson

    CD Eskilson’s debut, Scream / Queen, is full of slashes. The punctuation mark divides the...

    $17.00
  • Go Figure

    Go Figure

    By Rae Armantrout

    In the twenty-four years since the publication of Veil: New and Selected Poems in 2001, Rae...

    $16.95
  • The Lost Nostalgias

    The Lost Nostalgias

    By Esteban Rodríguez

    With just a few exceptions, Esteban Rodríguez uses one-word titles for the poems in The...

    $18.00
  • Rodeo

    Rodeo

    By Sunni Brown Wilkinson

    What this book cares about most: Rodeo embeds the grief over the stillbirth of Wilkinson’s...

    $17.95
  • Water Guest

    Water Guest

    By Caroline M. Mar

    What this book cares about most: Conversations with a community that cannot speak back; namely,...

    $17.95
  • Cue

    Cue

    By Siwar Masannat

    Jordanian poet Siwar Masannat’s Cue (University of Georgia Press, 2024) is a finely wrought and...

    $20.95
  • Barley Child

    Barley Child

    By Greg Rappleye

    An old West Irish response to the knock of an unexpected visitor—“Are ye of the...

    $19.95
  • Mandible Wishbone Solvent

    Mandible Wishbone Solvent

    By Asiya Wadud

    Geography has never been so disastrously flexible. The geography of the world, while the literal,...

    $18.00
  • Pinion

    Pinion

    By Monica Rico

    “To find an owl I must follow the crow . . .” so writes Mexican...

    $17.95
  • We Contain Landscapes

    We Contain Landscapes

    By Patrycja Humienik

    In We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, 2025), Patrycja Humienik journeys through memory—personal and communal—reflecting on...

    $16.95
  • Extinction of the Holy City

    Extinction of the Holy City

    By Bronisław Maj

    After World War II, multicultural Poland was forcibly rearranged. German speakers were expulsed from the...

    $17.95
  • Querida

    Querida

    By Nathan Xavier Osorio

    Embedded in place and lush with family, Nathan Xavier Osorio’s collection Querida offers an intimate...

    $18
  • I Was Working

    I Was Working

    By Ariel Yelen

    Do you occasionally fold an invoice into the shape of a futuristic spacecraft, or twist...

    $17.95
  • Milk for Gall

    Milk for Gall

    By Natalie Louise Tombasco

    Upon reading Milk for Gall, the debut poetry collection from Natalie Louise Tombasco and winner...

    $18.95
  • Notation

    Notation

    By Jordan Dunn

    It is a shame that reading calls for a silent, sitting period. It is difficult,...

    $17.95