Book Reviews
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Blood Snow
In Blood Snow (Wave Books, 2022), dg nanouk okpik’s visionary pastorals mourn the melt, illness,...
$18
Extinction Theory
In Kien Lam’s slim but fruitful poetry collection Extinction Theory, readers discover intimate rationales regarding...
$17.95
Some Alphabets
How does language—with its rich histories, tonal registers, and lexicon—shape our understanding of ourselves and...
$18.5
In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century
“One is startled—by a color, into being,” writes anthologist and translator Wong May as she...
$25
In a Few Minutes Before Later
Brenda Hillman has thrilled me in her ten earlier books, among them her quartet on...
$26
Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine
I recently discovered the pendulum wave. Much like Newton’s famous cradle, the pendulum wave involves...
$24.99
Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise
The late Dean Young resonates with insight into the human condition in writing, “. ....
$16
A Thousand Curves
A man of a certain age greets the morning and considers ruefully the passing of...
$18
Blessing the Exoskeleton
Part individual plea, part millennial manifesto, Andrew Hemmert’s Blessing the Exoskeleton combines displacement, homesickness, and...
$18
Translation of the Lilies Back Into Lists
In Laynie Browne’s fourteenth book of poetry, Translation of the Lilies Back Into Lists, the...
$22
In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful
In Abigail Chabitnoy’s second collection, In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful, the speaker pulls...
$15.95
Wound Is the Origin of Wonder
Listening to Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land: Suite always makes me cry. Tears evoked by...
$26.95
The New Gods
William O’Daly is known as one of the preeminent translators of the poetry of Pablo...
$20
The Face of the Quartzes
The poems in Chus Pato’s The Face of the Quartzes, as translated from Galician into...
$19
The Symmetry of Fish
In Su Cho’s moving debut, The Symmetry of Fish, language, culture, and family form a...
$18