Book Reviews
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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
Everyone Rides the Bus in a City of Losers
Charting this particular topography of the down-and-out, Freure picks up the flip side of success...
$18.95
The Avalanche Path in Summer
The arc of the book is one spent living in and thinking about mountains where...
$18.00
Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater
If the act of writing is one of discovery, then in a similar way, these...
$17.00
Excess—The Factory
But again, the underlying sense of the collective is layered in as well: we are...
$16.00
Kill Class
Language is always an essential agent in the construction of imagined war scenarios and political...
$17.95
Doomstead Days
What sprouts from his burned bracts is the realization that the environmental disaster we have...
$17.95
Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
This quietly devastating “book of friendship,” as the text is subtitled, both flies and lives...
$16.00
Dresses from the Old Country
In this compact yet expansive collection of poems, Laura Read places herself on a chair...
$17.00
The Tradition
What’s more, Brown’s development of the “duplex”—a sonnet-like repetitive form, whose name recalls apartment-style housing—showcases...
$17.00
Age of Glass
Hong's literary landscape is the sonnet. All but three poems riff on this form. Hong's...
$16.00
Adorable Airport
Ultimately, we are left with an existence, the poet seems to suggest, that hovers between...
$16.95
The Trailhead
The body knows, can achieve this knowledge through mythic journeys and discipline, but there’s a...
$24.95