Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
The Roof of the Whale Poems
In Juan Calzadilla’s The Roof of the Whale Poems, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and...
$18.95
Nocturne in Joy
“My mother is Black / under the eyes in / twilight,” Tatiana Johnson-Boria writes in...
$12.99
I Want to Tell You
Jesse Lee Kercheval’s poetry in I Want to Tell You works toward a language of...
$18
Ishmael Mask
In Ishmael Mask, Charles Kell’s second collection of poetry, the poet extends his exploration of...
$16.95
Thirst & Surfeit
In Thirst & Surfeit, Elizabeth Robinson pressurizes language’s relationship to time, to history. In her...
$18
April 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...
$23
Negro Mountain
The titular Negro Mountain in C.S. Giscombe’s latest collection is, foremost, a real place: a...
$18
The Dreams We Share
Raphael Block’s new collection, The Dreams We Share, is a work of sustained and reverent...
$17.50
Tiny Extravaganzas
Diane Mehta’s Tiny Extravaganzas is an exploration of muses and isolation, and with references to...
$20
If Some God Shakes Your House
Franklin reminds us that Tragedy may be the most appropriate response to tragedy in this...
$17.95
The Upstate
In a time of environmental and civic toxicity, Lindsay Turner attends to our flailing integrity...
$18
Soft Apocalypse
Leah Nieboer’s stunning debut collection of poems, Soft Apocalypse, captures the visceral experience of a...
$19.95
Āina Hānau / Birth Land
In the title poem of Āina Hānau / Birth Land, Brandy Nālani McDougall asks, “na...
$16.95
The Rock That Is Not A Rabbit
Having read the title poem three or four times, I’m still unsure if the rock...
$18
Living Room
The 1977 educational film Powers of Ten begins with an aerial view of a couple...
$17.95
Brother Poem
In Will Harris’s Brother Poem, the lines between reality and dreamscapes blur, and readers dwell...
$15.95
Live in Suspense
Midlife is a reckoning with our experience of time. The past seems impossibly far away....
$18
Winter Stranger
Jackson Holbert’s debut collection, Winter Stranger, winner of the Milkweed Editions 2022 Max Ritvo Poetry...
$22
Valley of the Many Colored Grasses
A few years ago, thanks to the magic of the internet, I bought a copy...
$18.95
Piano in the Dark
Set during the wider context of the global pandemic and within the personal history of...
$17.00
Then Telling Be the Antidote
I likened this collection, after an initial reading, to a canvas by Kandinsky, where broad...
$21.95