Book Reviews
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Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World
This collection serves as a physical reminder of the ways we both move in the...
$16.00
Library of Small Catastrophes
What makes these poems so intensely moving, so worthy of an adoration to match, is...
$16.00
Habitat Threshold
As poets—non-journalists—we are frequently caught between conflicting expectations for our art. We are told not...
$17.95
All the Great Territories
In the beginning, Wimberley struggles to mourn the loss of home, father, and country. And...
$16.95
Cage of Lit Glass
These poems illuminate the seemingly endless cycles of violence that perpetuate government-sanctioned surveillance and incarceration,...
$16.95
Repetition Nineteen
By presenting the reader with twenty-five different translations of the same poem—which deliberately raises questions...
$18.95
Pale Colors in a Tall Field
That seems to be what Phillips sets out to do, to keep beginning, and that...
$23.00
Tracing the Horse
What does it mean to be herself in this Mexican-American culture? The last section moves...
$17.00
Ravage & Snare
The poems are muscular with allusion and wordplay, citing sources diverse as Old English poems...
$16.00
We Fell into Weather
It’s no secret that the world is changing radically; from massive (and righteous) civil unrest...
$20.00
Grief Sequence
In Prageeta Sharma’s collection of poems, her husband’s sudden death makes vivid their emotional and...
$20.00
Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition
At another point, she asserts, “The question is who to be writing this.” Writer, mother,...
$20.00
The Museum of Small Bones
We delight in the distractions of the circus, though we understand its wonders are illusions,...
$19.95
You Are Still Alive
Rather than this dissipating energy, however, Stobb uses the material to perform serious, nearly Buddhist...
$16.00
The Clearing
Despite being caught in the eddies of loss, returning in memory and emotion to past...
$22.00
Fur Not Light
The strength of these impossible-to-summarize poems and the disorder of any narrative is in the...
$14.00
Almonds are Members of the Peach Family
Leading by example, Sauer shows that not only can our stories can be messy, hard...
$18.00
The River Twice
Kathleen Graber’s The River Twice troubles the distinction between past and present. Rather than eschew...
$17.95
Utopia Pipe Dream Memory
Refusing to be confined by the limits of narrative genre and form, she nevertheless exploits...
$14.00
Hear Trains
While these poems share approaches, their larger effect is to sketch the history of civilization...
$25.00
The More Extravagant Feast
Green is a careful student of human strength and frailty, aware of the dichotomies always...
$16.00