Book Reviews
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Extra Hidden Life, among the Days
Hillman plays with the post-human—a hypothetical, ecological state following the extinction of humanity—but never abandons...
$24.95Rocket Fantastic
There is magic in the poetry of Rocket Fantastic. Bodies are gendered and more-than-gendered. Humans...
$25.95Baby, I Don’t Care
Minnis notes that the “book was inspired by classic movies and couldn’t have been written...
$18.00North American Stadiums
In many ways, this is a nostalgic book—looking back and recalling old friends and scenes...
$22.00You Are the Phenomenology
In the precision and beauty of its varied form, Timothy O’Keefe’s You Are the Phenomenology...
$16.95Lances All Alike
Only a few pages in, it’s clear that this is not what one could reasonably...
$19.95Big Windows
Moseley does not just consider the boundary between outside and inside. Her poems also explore...
$15.95Headline News
A crucial component of the book’s success involves the meticulous balance Deming constructs between disarray...
$17.63For the Love of Endings
It’s like hearing out your friend who needs to tell you about that ex who...
$11.42Three Poems
Her rhymes are multifarious and carry out wildly different operations. They have been compared to...
$14.00Lunch Portraits
Debora Kuan’s wonderful Lunch Portraits inverts and subverts this ideology of hunger, constructing poems that...
$16.00Losers Dream On
The entries shift wildly from the domestic to the cosmic (and back again), so that...
$18.00I left nothing inside on purpose
...Those moments when what we want to say diverges from what we’re supposed to, are...
$16.95Dropping Death
The very privacy of these poems is charged with a sense of another’s presence. In...
$10.00Because Everything Is Terrible
These are urgent poems, made all the more urgent by the apocalyptic-feeling political landscape we’ve...
$18.00Buck Studies
Kearney keeps finding new ways to collage on the level of the sonic, semantic, visual,...
$15.95I will not kick my friends
Winter balances insight with compassion, and reaches for the ineffable with humility and courage, so...
$17.00Bright Raft in the Afterweather
Make no mistake; these are ecological poems, but not of an idyllic moment void of...
$13.86Sleep Paralysis
Like the best ecopoetry of our age, Sleep Paralysis teaches us to pay attention to...
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