Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Landscapes on a Train
Swensen’s poems, arranged on the page in windowlike, prose-shaped blocks, do what the best poems...
$17.95Illocality
Massey’s taut minimalism converts the things peopling these landscapes—trees, fog, parking lots, the feral subject...
$18.00The Book of Joshua
Sympathetically surreal, funny and tragic, The Book of Joshua is an unusual book, and an...
$19.95Dark Green
That’s the heartbreak that the poems in the collection can’t stop nibbling at. What if...
$17.95Time Down to Mind
For Graham Foust, the subject to which he has returned most often across the arc...
$15.95We Who Saw Everything
We Who Saw Everything is a vast mnemonic for the event of our speaking of...
$17Two Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Agnes Martin isn’t painting any scene. Her grids portion out forms of emptiness. And so...
$18.00 / 15.00Self-Portrait with Spurs & Sulfur
The persistent species of poem known as the “self-portrait”—hardy, it would seem, as the Pacific...
$17.95Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy
Through a collection of poems quiet in tone but unflinching in conviction, Klink explores...
$20.00The Feel Trio
At its most basic level, Fred Moten’s The Feel Trio does what Herodotus did: it...
$20.00Surrounded by Friends
In his latest book, Surrounded by Friends, Matthew Rohrer goes beyond befriending the dead to...
$18.00Double Reveiw: Ozone Journal & Vice and Shadow
Peter Balakian explores the relationship between the lyric and larger social movements, envisioning poetry as...
$18.00; $25.00Cocky’s Joy
Michael Farrell’s 2015 collection, Cocky’s Joy, is ambidextrous, its right hand painting comic tableaux, and...
$24.00Reckless Lovely
In Martha Silano's stunning fourth collection of poems, readers will encounter "velvety soup," "60,000 eggs,"...
$15.00Far-Fetched
The possibilities [Johnston] envisions for our contemporary times are far more than we deserve....
$23.00Century Swept Brutal
If you want a taste of the beauty of our clumsy human limitations and desires,...
$14.95Ohio Railroads
Ostensibly a catalog of Ohio’s network of railroads,Ohio Railroads takes up race, memory, language, and...
$11.95