Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
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
My Mountain Country
The gorgeous cover strikes the first note of the theme: a traditional mountain landscape with...
$16.00
Late Along the Edgelands
Ever, the body risked is one dissolving, while the body through which the reader sees...
$17.95
& more black
These poems take on the historical and current oppression of Black Americans, particularly Black women—including...
$18.00
Republic Café
Biespiel grapples with global crisis through the lens of the individual—specifically the relationship between two...
$19.95
Earth Is Best
O’Leary so brilliantly makes language itself a rhizomatic experience, a syntactical force that allows the...
$20.00
Lonesome Gnosis
Scanlon’s poems operate at the moment of enjambment between the last two lines above, the...
$9.00
Fear Of Description
Daniel Poppick’s second collection, Fear of Description, features a collection of sonnets, elegies, and autobiographical...
$14.13
A Little More Red Sun on the Human
The collection begins with dramatic monologues and portraits, cinematic and enigmatic, that are more traditionally...
$19.95
The Year of the Femme
Interiors and the fullness thereof feel at the heart of this book, a gorgeous kind...
$19.95
Fossils in the Making
Strong images from the botanical, geological, mammalian, and environmental worlds sensuously create lines of emotional...
$14.95
sound of wave in channel, Books I and II
Ratcliffe’s words carry in them the promise that, somewhere in this sustained observation, there is...
$50.00
Nightingale
Ancient stories of transformation are again transformed by Rekdal’s telling, and it’s impossible to read...
$16.00
Spiritual Exercises
Considering the weightiness of the subject matter—identity, love, language, and the limits of understanding—this collection...
$14.73
At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered
Throughout his new poems, Levine operates as a poetic pantheist, locating vitality in the ordinary...
$20.00
Sight Lines
The most important thing about these edits is that the old words are not simply...
$16.00
Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides
Images are repeated and inverted; sentences flip syntax along with their corresponding sounds. All this...
$14.00