Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Mom in Space
Driven by an infectious curiosity even amid calamity, Mom in Space explores the stunning insights...
$22.95Ghost Man on Second
Erica Reid’s “Ghost Man,” an imaginary man who held the speaker’s place on bases during...
$17.95The Signalman
In Ezra Miles’s The Signalman, the weight of silence and solitude lowers and reshapes an...
$17The Real Ethereal
Katie Naughton’s first book of poetry, The Real Ethereal, is as timely as it is...
$20Four Fields
Dorinda Wegener’s debut collection Four Fields builds a world for the reader to step into...
$18Fanling in October
Fanling in October opens with a journey back to Pui Ying Wong’s Hong Kong roots,...
$18Beforelight
Incorporating a few of the poems and themes that appeared in his collection Night Logic,...
$18To Be Named Something Else
Dripping with water and blood, bursting with song and mourning, dancing with ancestral and future...
$19.95Synthetic Jungle
As I read Synthetic Jungle, the third full-length collection Michael Chang has published since 2021,...
$18The Roof of the Whale Poems
In Juan Calzadilla’s The Roof of the Whale Poems, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and...
$18.95Nocturne in Joy
“My mother is Black / under the eyes in / twilight,” Tatiana Johnson-Boria writes in...
$12.99I Want to Tell You
Jesse Lee Kercheval’s poetry in I Want to Tell You works toward a language of...
$18Ishmael Mask
In Ishmael Mask, Charles Kell’s second collection of poetry, the poet extends his exploration of...
$16.95Thirst & Surfeit
In Thirst & Surfeit, Elizabeth Robinson pressurizes language’s relationship to time, to history. In her...
$18April Showers, May Flowers: 3 Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Hafiz’s Little Book of Life (Translated by Gary Gach and Erfan Mojib), Hampton Roads Publishing (2023)...
Further Adventures
Norman Finkelstein’s Further Adventures is the last of a trilogy of collections centered around Pascal...
$23Negro Mountain
The titular Negro Mountain in C.S. Giscombe’s latest collection is, foremost, a real place: a...
$18The Dreams We Share
Raphael Block’s new collection, The Dreams We Share, is a work of sustained and reverent...
$17.50Tiny Extravaganzas
Diane Mehta’s Tiny Extravaganzas is an exploration of muses and isolation, and with references to...
$20If Some God Shakes Your House
Franklin reminds us that Tragedy may be the most appropriate response to tragedy in this...
$17.95The Upstate
In a time of environmental and civic toxicity, Lindsay Turner attends to our flailing integrity...
$18Soft Apocalypse
Leah Nieboer’s stunning debut collection of poems, Soft Apocalypse, captures the visceral experience of a...
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