Book Reviews

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  • Peaches Goes It Alone

    Peaches Goes It Alone

    By Frederick Seidel

    Frederick Seidel has long taken pleasure in the absurdities of everyday American life. Under his...

    $24.00
  • Babette

    Babette

    By Sara Deniz Akant

    Akant troubles the borders between life and death, between consciousness and the unconscious, through a...

    $16.00
  • how do i net thee

    how do i net thee

    By Shira Dentz

    Who, or what, can be captured in such open forms is this book’s question, and...

    $14.22
  • Yield Architecture

    Yield Architecture

    By Jake Syersak

    Throughout this collection, Syersak reconfigures and responds to art, philosophy, poetry, and history by directly...

    $13.00
  • Silk Road

    Silk Road

    By Daneen Wardrop

    In these poems, delicately and profusely braided together in a loose narrative of nine sections,...

    $16.00
  • Anatomic

    Anatomic

    By Adam Dickinson

    After having an impressive series of tests run on his body, Dickinson uses poetry as...

    $20.95
  • Holy Moly Carry Me

    Holy Moly Carry Me

    By Erika Meitner

    And while many of Meitner’s meditations are brutal and anxiety-laced, what’s also clear is this...

    $17.00
  • Indictus

    Indictus

    By Natalie Eilbert

    How indeed can we know any better than to pretend in our cultural discourse that...

    $15.00
  • Extra Hidden Life, among the Days

    Extra Hidden Life, among the Days

    By Brenda Hillman

    Hillman plays with the post-human—a hypothetical, ecological state following the extinction of humanity—but never abandons...

    $24.95
  • Rocket Fantastic

    Rocket Fantastic

    By Gabrielle Calvocoressi

    There is magic in the poetry of Rocket Fantastic. Bodies are gendered and more-than-gendered. Humans...

    $25.95
  • Baby, I Don't Care

    Baby, I Don’t Care

    By Chelsey Minnis

    Minnis notes that the “book was inspired by classic movies and couldn’t have been written...

    $18.00
  • North American Stadiums

    North American Stadiums

    By Grady Chambers

    In many ways, this is a nostalgic book—looking back and recalling old friends and scenes...

    $22.00
  • Of Sphere

    Of Sphere

    By Karla Kelsey

    Even at the level of syntax, words and concepts flow into one another. The poems...

    $12.95
  • You Are the Phenomenology

    You Are the Phenomenology

    By Timothy O'Keefe

    In the precision and beauty of its varied form, Timothy O’Keefe’s You Are the Phenomenology...

    $16.95
  • Lances All Alike

    Lances All Alike

    By Suzanne Zelazo

    Only a few pages in, it’s clear that this is not what one could reasonably...

    $19.95
  • Big Windows

    Big Windows

    By Lauren Moseley

    Moseley does not just consider the boundary between outside and inside. Her poems also explore...

    $15.95
  • Headline News

    Headline News

    By John Deming

    A crucial component of the book’s success involves the meticulous balance Deming constructs between disarray...

    $17.63
  • Three Poems

    Three Poems

    By Hannah Sullivan

    Her rhymes are multifarious and carry out wildly different operations. They have been compared to...

    $14.00
  • Lunch Portraits

    Lunch Portraits

    By Debora Kuan

    Debora Kuan’s wonderful Lunch Portraits inverts and subverts this ideology of hunger, constructing poems that...

    $16.00
  • Evening

    Evening

    By Ethel Rackin

    Rackin’s language is rich with wordplay, double meanings and subtle cross-references that never distract us...

    $12.00
  • Losers Dream On

    Losers Dream On

    By Mark Halliday

    The entries shift wildly from the domestic to the cosmic (and back again), so that...

    $18.00