Book Reviews
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Particulars of Place
what is fascinating about this collection is the way it gives us an entire life...
$17.95
The Tulip-Flame
In this debut collection, the speaker is a ballerina—full of control and beauty, poise and...
$15.95
I Was Not Born
Whichever way you read this collection, the true nature of the writing, and the story,...
$15.00
The Tranquilized Tongue
Presented as a series of compact, carefully crafted prose pieces, this magnificent sequence poses compelling...
$13.95
The Dead Eat Everything
There is loss, there is struggle in these poems, but there is also the capacity...
$15.00
What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other
And therein lies the beauty of Schultz’s work. If he did not love the world...
$16.95
Four Poetry Books
For as much as poetry concerns itself with the various forms of eternity—Keats’s “A thing...
$17.95
Barely Composed
This collection travels the breadth of the universe and the human, leaving us searching our...
$25.95
The Whole Field Still Moving Inside It; Almanac
Both Bashaw and Smith are important, though under-appreciated, poets...both complicate and enliven our understanding of...
$15
The Americans; The Tribute Horse
What are we paying in moral capital, Roderick wants to know, for an easy life...
$14.95; 15.95
To See the Queen
These are frightening, moving, deeply human poems—poems such as these are sorely needed....
$15.95
Forgiveness Forgiveness
With that in mind, McCrae's Forgiveness Forgiveness is a highly accomplished and moving collection of...
$15
Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness
Being made aware of the body is absolutely crucial to Conrad’s praxis, as he calls...
$22.00
In a Landscape
Gallaher is a master of moving from punchlines to moments of real gravity. Cultural references...
$16.00
My Lorenzo
Smirou takes the possessive pride of appropriation, or rather, personalization, of a historical figure: ...
$14
The New Testament
However, The New Testament is not entirely a poetry of witness, either. Made all the...
$17.00
In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011
Associating “poetry” with “nothing” may seem to beckon after the rueful poet’s reduced expectation...
$18.95
Hymn for the Black Terrific
Make no mistake: these poems are dazzling, bruised, brilliant. ...
$14.95