Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Double Reveiw: Ozone Journal & Vice and Shadow
Peter Balakian explores the relationship between the lyric and larger social movements, envisioning poetry as...
$18.00; $25.00
Cocky’s Joy
Michael Farrell’s 2015 collection, Cocky’s Joy, is ambidextrous, its right hand painting comic tableaux, and...
$24.00
Reckless Lovely
In Martha Silano's stunning fourth collection of poems, readers will encounter "velvety soup," "60,000 eggs,"...
$15.00
Far-Fetched
The possibilities [Johnston] envisions for our contemporary times are far more than we deserve....
$23.00
Century Swept Brutal
If you want a taste of the beauty of our clumsy human limitations and desires,...
$14.95
Ohio Railroads
Ostensibly a catalog of Ohio’s network of railroads,Ohio Railroads takes up race, memory, language, and...
$11.95
The Meatgirl Whatever
Kristin Hatch's poems in The Meatgirl Whatever are following the idea of "to serve." Or...
$15.95
The Lost Novel
Yes, these are poems of belief and faith, of hope, and they reach toward those...
$15.95
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