Book Reviews

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  • The Ecopoetry Anthology

    The Ecopoetry Anthology

    By Eds. Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street

    The Ecopoetry Anthology is a beautifully constructed, carefully planned, and intelligently framed volume. Readers looking...

    $24.95
  • Lost And

    Lost And

    By Jeff Griffin

    Like all good poetry, Lost And keeps us somewhat lost, and therefore looking....

    $20
  • Through the Second Skin

    Through the Second Skin

    By Derek Sheffield

    Sheffield’s language is mined from observation and reflection. His imagination is grounded in flora and...

    $21.95
  • Orange Roses

    Orange Roses

    By Lucy Ives

    Lucy Ives does not tell us how to find meaning in our lives, but she...

    $18
  • Under the Sign

    Under the Sign

    By Ann Lauterbach

    It turns out that ordinary mortality is the only limit to this openness, and here,...

    $16.40
  • Swamp Isthmus

    Swamp Isthmus

    By Joshua Marie Wilkinson

    The beauty of this collection, formally and thematically, is the brio Wilkinson brings to the...

    $14.95
  • Armor, Amour

    Armor, Amour

    By Amy Pence

    The poems of Armor, Amour reveal a serious mind wrestling with important subjects. The book...

    $16.00
  • Grains of the Voice

    Grains of the Voice

    By Christina Pugh

    This collection is, in essence, an act of singing. Each poem lilts, echoes, trills what...

    $13.99
  • Companion Grasses

    Companion Grasses

    By Brian Teare

    It is a distinct feature of [this] book that it impresses into service both logic...

    $17.95
  • Road Scatter

    Road Scatter

    By Sandra Meek

    Road Scatter, Sandra Meek’s devastating new book of poetry, aches with a sense of loss...

    $15.95
  • Imperial Nostalgias

    Imperial Nostalgias

    By Joshua Edwards

    There is a problem, however, with this Romantic undertaking: the American frontier has long been...

    $14.00
  • Small Porcelain Head

    Small Porcelain Head

    By Allison Benis White

    Small Porcelain Head is filled with beautifully crafted poems...which offer a thought-provoking relationship between form...

    $15.95
  • Sunday Rising

    Sunday Rising

    By Patricia Clark

    It is hard not to recall the deft turns of Mary Oliver in Clark’s work—both...

    $19.95
  • Second Nature

    Second Nature

    By Jack Collom

    "The fact that Collom invites the audience to take part in the work of the...

    $16.00
  • The Final Take

    The Final Take

    By Mario Susko

    In The Final Take, Susko seeks to record something that puts to rest the aftereffects...

    $8.50