Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
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...
$13.46A Duration
It seems it’s been taking me longer and longer to complete these reviews lately, and...
$18.00Your 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,...
$18.95Wave House
In her sixth book, Wave House, Elizabeth Arnold’s unpredictable poems mimic the incalculable movements of...
$18.95The Corrected Version
This debut collection is a fascinating study in form and a powerful meditation on family....
$18.00Night Logic
Matthew Gellman’s Night Logic emerges at a time when states like Florida are going to...
$17.95Flare, Corona
In 2020, amidst devastating wildfires and insurrections and a pandemic, we all seemed to collectively...
$17the luxury
In his ecopoetic collection the luxury, Darren C. Demaree draws upon the four classical elements...
$16Content Warning: Everything
At one point in their debut poetry book, Content Warning: Everything, New York Times best-selling...
$16adjacent islands
In Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s elegant, bilingual collection adjacent islands, readers discover a minimalist world where...
$18Pink Noise
Midway through Pink Noise, Kevin Holden’s second full-length collection, there appears what one might take...
$17.95The Plague Doctor
You might be in the mood for a crystal-clear lyric, perhaps, or your lethargy demands...
$12.95Rocks & More Rocks
About fifteen years ago, I wrote a review for Stephen Ratcliffe’s book of poetry REAL,...
$40What Small Sound
“I’m here to bear witness to this deafness / that expands imperceptibly,” writes Francesca Bell...
$22Editor Recommendation: And And And
In a world filled with loss, diminishment, negation, Cole Swensen offers a book of addition....
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