Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • Post-

    Post-

    By Wayne Miller

    Miller’s task is to remove the fixed barrier that has separated public from private and...

    $16.00
  • Landscapes on a Train

    Landscapes on a Train

    By Cole Swensen

    Swensen’s poems, arranged on the page in windowlike, prose-shaped blocks, do what the best poems...

    $17.95
  • Illocality

    Illocality

    By Joseph Massey

    Massey’s taut minimalism converts the things peopling these landscapes—trees, fog, parking lots, the feral subject...

    $18.00
  • Look

    Look

    By Solmaz Sharif

    On the cover of Look is a copy of the first photograph ever taken, which...

    $12.52
  • Dark Green

    Dark Green

    By Emily Hunt

    That’s the heartbreak that the poems in the collection can’t stop nibbling at. What if...

    $17.95
  • Time Down to Mind

    Time Down to Mind

    By Graham Foust

    For Graham Foust, the subject to which he has returned most often across the arc...

    $15.95
  • Little Arias

    Little Arias

    By Kristen Case

    A poet who urges us to hold dear to all of our experience: that which...

    $15.00
  • Itself

    Itself

    By Rae Armantrout

    “I work it,” [Armantrout] writes in the title poem, “until sweetness // rises /...

    $24.95
  • Honest James

    Honest James

    By Christian Schlegel

    Of course, the genius of Honest James is that it engages with the trouble of...

    $17.95
  • The Feel Trio

    The Feel Trio

    By Fred Moten

    At its most basic level, Fred Moten’s The Feel Trio does what Herodotus did: it...

    $20.00
  • Surrounded by Friends

    Surrounded by Friends

    By Matthew Rohrer

    In his latest book, Surrounded by Friends, Matthew Rohrer goes beyond befriending the dead to...

    $18.00
  • Some Habits

    Some Habits

    By C. Violet Eaton

    This isn’t a poet who wishes to scratch the surface but to “scratch into” and...

    $17.95
  • LABOR

    LABOR

    By Jill Magi

    Art in the Age of the Adjunct In all the debate around the proliferation of...

    $15.95
  • Cocky's Joy

    Cocky’s Joy

    By Michael Farrell

    Michael Farrell’s 2015 collection, Cocky’s Joy, is ambidextrous, its right hand painting comic tableaux, and...

    $24.00
  • Reckless Lovely

    Reckless Lovely

    By Martha Silano

    In Martha Silano's stunning fourth collection of poems, readers will encounter "velvety soup," "60,000 eggs,"...

    $15.00
  • Far-Fetched

    Far-Fetched

    By Devin Johnston

    The possibilities [Johnston] envisions for our contemporary times are far more than we deserve....

    $23.00
  • Century Swept Brutal

    Century Swept Brutal

    By Zach Savich

    If you want a taste of the beauty of our clumsy human limitations and desires,...

    $14.95
  • Ohio Railroads

    Ohio Railroads

    By G. S. Giscombe

    Ostensibly a catalog of Ohio’s network of railroads,Ohio Railroads takes up race, memory, language, and...

    $11.95