Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Living Room
The 1977 educational film Powers of Ten begins with an aerial view of a couple...
$17.95
Brother Poem
In Will Harris’s Brother Poem, the lines between reality and dreamscapes blur, and readers dwell...
$15.95
Live in Suspense
Midlife is a reckoning with our experience of time. The past seems impossibly far away....
$18
Winter Stranger
Jackson Holbert’s debut collection, Winter Stranger, winner of the Milkweed Editions 2022 Max Ritvo Poetry...
$22
Valley of the Many Colored Grasses
A few years ago, thanks to the magic of the internet, I bought a copy...
$18.95
Piano in the Dark
Set during the wider context of the global pandemic and within the personal history of...
$17.00
Then Telling Be the Antidote
I likened this collection, after an initial reading, to a canvas by Kandinsky, where broad...
$21.95
Three Books for Autumns Fading Splendor: Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Jordan Dunn (2022) Partly Press The leaves in...
The Daughter of Man
Forgive me the spoiler, but L. J. Sysko’s debut poetry collection The Daughter of Man...
$13.46
A Duration
It seems it’s been taking me longer and longer to complete these reviews lately, and...
$18.00
Your Kingdom
In her tenth book of poetry, Your Kingdom, Eleni Sikelianos offers an exploration of life’s...
Her Scant State
Barbara Tomash’s new collection erases Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady. From the outset,...
$18.95
Wave House
In her sixth book, Wave House, Elizabeth Arnold’s unpredictable poems mimic the incalculable movements of...
$18.95
The Corrected Version
This debut collection is a fascinating study in form and a powerful meditation on family....
$18.00
Night Logic
Matthew Gellman’s Night Logic emerges at a time when states like Florida are going to...
$17.95
Flare, Corona
In 2020, amidst devastating wildfires and insurrections and a pandemic, we all seemed to collectively...
$17
the luxury
In his ecopoetic collection the luxury, Darren C. Demaree draws upon the four classical elements...
$16
Content Warning: Everything
At one point in their debut poetry book, Content Warning: Everything, New York Times best-selling...
$16
adjacent islands
In Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s elegant, bilingual collection adjacent islands, readers discover a minimalist world where...
$18
Pink Noise
Midway through Pink Noise, Kevin Holden’s second full-length collection, there appears what one might take...
$17.95