Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • Paper Crown

    Paper Crown

    By Heather Christle

    By now, a new collection of Heather Christle poems comes with a certain set of...

    $16.95
  • To See Yourself as You Vanish

    To See Yourself as You Vanish

    By Andrea Werblin Reid

    Like Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” Dickinson’s “Hope is a thing with feathers—/ that perches...

    $26.95
  • Cold Thief Place

    Cold Thief Place

    By Esther Lin

    What does it mean to tell a life when the life itself resists borders, papers,...

    $24.95
  • Lost Cities

    Lost Cities

    By Valencia Robin

    What this book cares about most: Lost cities; places that change each time we try...

    $17.00
  • The Sweating Sickness

    The Sweating Sickness

    By Rebecca Lehmann

    What this book cares about most: Overcoming Being heard Being listened to How to recover...

    $20.00
  • No Rhododendron

    No Rhododendron

    By Samyak Shertok

    No Rhododendron (a reference to his country’s national flower) is an intoxicating mix of ancestry,...

    $20.00
  • SOFAR

    SOFAR

    By Elizabeth Bradfield

    SOFAR is an acronym for the Sound Fixing and Ranging layers of ocean waters, where...

    $18.00
  • SISSY

    SISSY

    By Canese Jarboe

    In the advanced blurbs for Canese Jarboe’s SISSY, renowned poet CA Conrad ended their blurb...

    $17.00
  • Civilians

    Civilians

    By Jehanne Dubrow

    In the disturbance we call America, we must navigate the tension between job and home,...

    $20.95
  • Asterism

    Asterism

    By Ae Hee Lee

    In her debut poetry collection, Asterism, Ae Hee Lee writes, “The Napa cabbages inside are...

    $21.95
  • 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