Book Reviews

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  • Tender Omnibus

    Tender Omnibus

    By Katy Bohinc, Editor

    Tender Buttons Press is most suitably named for/after a text by that great poetry momma...

    $30.00
  • Take This Stallion

    Take This Stallion

    By Anaïs Duplan

    Duplan continues to probe authenticity throughout the book, specifically what it means to be a...

    $12.81
  • American Anger

    American Anger

    By H. L. Hix

    Over the book’s ten sections Hix employs a slew of voices to do his bidding:...

    $15.39
  • Whereas

    Whereas

    By Stephen Dunn

    Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn’s new book of poetry, Whereas, comes out of a life...

    $17.07
  • Skeleton Coast

    Skeleton Coast

    By Elizabeth Arnold

    Where the speaker exposes her vulnerabilities, the reader must connect and piece together. There is...

    $15.95
  • An Ecology of Elsewhere

    An Ecology of Elsewhere

    By Sandra Meek

    Meek takes risks with these poems, testing the boundaries of her sympathy, whether for the...

    $10.96
  • Ghost / Landcape

    Ghost / Landcape

    By Kristina Marie Darling and John Gallaher

    The reader walks a labyrinth, searching for clues, each chapter relinquishing a few while simultaneously...

    $16.00
  • Scarecrow

    Scarecrow

    By Robert Fernandez

    Fernandez poses an intellectual, referential voice that is continually confounding a consistent line of thought....

    $23.34
  • Divinity School

    Divinity School

    By Alicia Jo Rabins

    Rabins reveals that our gestures allow us to know our bodies, and the emotional associations...

    $14.45
  • The Opposite of Light

    The Opposite of Light

    By Kimberly Grey

    The Opposite of Light offers a momentary glimpse into the shards of a relationship that...

    $9.91
  • A Pillow Book

    A Pillow Book

    By Suzanne Buffam

    Awash in blunt humor and hazy renderings of the quotidian, A Pillow Book is a...

    $14.00
  • Archeophonics

    Archeophonics

    By Peter Gizzi

    Gizzi is always exacting with his line breaks and in this case uses them to...

    $24.95
  • My Fault

    My Fault

    By Leora Fridman

    Rather than search for absolution, Fridman writes into the complicity, into the fault....

    $16.00
  • The Division of Labor

    The Division of Labor

    By Dot Devota

    There is optimism in this book, but it is an optimism like none I’ve otherwise...

    $16.00
  • Bestiary

    Bestiary

    By Donika Kelly

    Kelly’s sentimentality is distorted through trauma, but it is that distortion that draws us in...

    $16.00
  • Burn Lyrics

    Burn Lyrics

    By Benjamin Landry

    Landry has approached the art of erasure in reverse, so that something of the timeless,...

    $15.00
  • May Day

    May Day

    By Gretchen Marquette

    Marquette’s collection makes a compelling claim for the importance of honest and deeply personal expressions...

    $16.00
  • Spiritual Grave Year

    Spiritual Grave Year

    By Dan Magers

    Through humor and sincerity, stitched together with painfully lurid moments, Dan Magers provides “a vision...

    $12.00
  • The Field

    The Field

    By Robert Andrew Perez

    The casual can seem lax: as praise, “casual” can sound like a euphemism for “underdressed,”...

    $11.95
  • Wedding Pulls

    Wedding Pulls

    By J. K. Daniels

    Brimming with characters, the poems are not narrative but tightly sprung lyrics whose wording reveals...

    $14.95
  • Receipt

    Receipt

    By Karen Leona Anderson

    Her pacing is subdued and infectious, and it will get under your skin. These poems’...

    $16.00
  • Scorpyn Odes

    Scorpyn Odes

    By Laynie Browne

    Browne’s challenge to how our world is and whether we should continue to stay in...

    $16.95
  • Turning into Dwelling

    Turning into Dwelling

    By Christopher Gilbert

    Many of his poems don’t just push boundaries of time, place, race, and self, but...

    $16.00