Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Spleen Elegy
Perhaps like all memories, particularly traumatic ones, the relationships between the lyric speaker and observable...
$16.00A Turkish Dictionary
Wessels continuously tries to overcome the problem of representation by projecting his images onto an...
$17.00Wherever We Mean to Be: Selected Poems 1975–2015
The most solitary poems, the ones that take the speaker for a walk through a...
$19.95I Know Your Kind
Brewer investigates how drug use has ravaged a community and the lives of users, enablers,...
$16.00The Happy End / All Welcome
No matter how many hours we may be chained to our office chair, no matter...
$17Playing Monster :: Seiche
Narratives of trauma seem especially marked by the uncanny or unreal. The traumatized self is...
$17Marvels of the Invisible
Molberg refuses to parse the usual polarities of religion and the natural world. She seeks...
$16.95Late in the Empire of Men
“Before I was a man I was a man / made of pixels,” Christopher Kempf...
$15.95In the Language of My Captor
The shifting meaning, line by line and poem by poem, attests to McCrae’s excellent care...
$24.95The Absolute Letter
...reading through Joron’s volume is, à la Tanning’s painting, to confront one’s fundamental notions, linguistic...
$14.95Overyellow
Overyellow describes itself as “a work about place —about the attempt to construct, through writing,...
$14.00Meadow Slasher
Meadow Slasher begins as a book about a vagrant with questionable motives and turns into...
$14.95Objects from a Borrowed Confession
As do lyric poems, the letters framing the book do double duty as the expressions...
$18.00A Passion According to Green
Irwin’s book is full of fables—a talking cat who meets an ancient and growing mouse,...
$16.00Meet Me Here at Dawn
It is a connection both chilling and intimate, when the speaker of these poems acknowledges...
$16.20Two Reviews: Community Garden for Lonely Girls and Ugly Time
Each collection firmly recites a laundry list of damages done to the body, as well...
$16.00Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems, 1997-2015
Bond is particularly adept in his ability to establish accessibility with a poem then, segueing...
$18.44Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare
Kornfeld and Massimilla want to be as thorough as possible with each recipe, including cultural...
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