Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
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
Flung Throne
For Clevidence, the world is not too much with us; we ourselves are simply too...
$18.00
With the Dogstar as My Witness
Most successfully, fractured syntax, lush imagery, and the implicit silence of spatial interruption create pleasurable...
$16.00
A Piece of Good News
From this rich literal and figurative vein, Peterson mines the many forms of interchange—cultural, economic,...
$11.99
We Step into the Sea
One of the great pleasures of reading across Keelan’s body of work is seeing how...
$24.95
Isako Isako
We, too, have seen this kind of semidocumentary poetics before; whereas the rummaging of personal...
$15.95
Peaches Goes It Alone
Frederick Seidel has long taken pleasure in the absurdities of everyday American life. Under his...
$24.00
how do i net thee
Who, or what, can be captured in such open forms is this book’s question, and...
$14.22
Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light
The poems and prose in Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light thus delve into...
$25.00
Yield Architecture
Throughout this collection, Syersak reconfigures and responds to art, philosophy, poetry, and history by directly...
$13.00