Book Reviews
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Overyellow
Overyellow describes itself as “a work about place —about the attempt to construct, through writing,...
$14.00
Meadow Slasher
Meadow Slasher begins as a book about a vagrant with questionable motives and turns into...
$14.95
Objects from a Borrowed Confession
As do lyric poems, the letters framing the book do double duty as the expressions...
$18.00
A Passion According to Green
Irwin’s book is full of fables—a talking cat who meets an ancient and growing mouse,...
$16.00
Meet Me Here at Dawn
It is a connection both chilling and intimate, when the speaker of these poems acknowledges...
$16.20
Two Reviews: Community Garden for Lonely Girls and Ugly Time
Each collection firmly recites a laundry list of damages done to the body, as well...
$16.00
Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems, 1997-2015
Bond is particularly adept in his ability to establish accessibility with a poem then, segueing...
$18.44
Cooking 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...
$33.95
Five Reviews: The Sobbing School; Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last; The Wug Test; Scriptorium; and Trébuchet
All these collections, however, share an intellectual restlessness, a capacity for rendering the associative leaps...
$ Various
Illusion of an Overwhelm
Resisting single interpretation and clear narrative, John Amen pushes against the conventional through poems that...
$15.81
Partisan of Things
A necessary new translation of a book that looks deeply and astutely at the nonhuman...
$13.95
Four Reincarnations
Along with tough images from someone facing the end of life, there are generosity and...
$14.95
Cold Pastoral
These poems take careful note of the methods by which humans are destroying the Earth,...
$10.87
Tender Omnibus
Tender Buttons Press is most suitably named for/after a text by that great poetry momma...
$30.00
Take This Stallion
Duplan continues to probe authenticity throughout the book, specifically what it means to be a...
$12.81
Fireworks in the Graveyard
Joy Ladin faces the relentlessness of our most vexing riddles with grace, musicality, and wry...
$10.00
American Anger
Over the book’s ten sections Hix employs a slew of voices to do his bidding:...
$15.39
Skeleton Coast
Where the speaker exposes her vulnerabilities, the reader must connect and piece together. There is...
$15.95
An Ecology of Elsewhere
Meek takes risks with these poems, testing the boundaries of her sympathy, whether for the...
$10.96
Ghost / Landcape
The reader walks a labyrinth, searching for clues, each chapter relinquishing a few while simultaneously...
$16.00