Book Reviews
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88 Sonnets
Clark Coolidge is no stranger to crystalline poetic forms. But sonnets? Such a traditional structure...
$15.95A Conjoined Book
Those who like to think of poetry as the purest expression of a unified self,...
$17.95The Next Monsters
The Next Monsters is an accomplished volume, one that's as carefully crafted as it is...
$14.95The Monarchs
Noel’s unwavering awareness is so keen and rapt that as it perceives it also exerts...
$18Debts & Lessons
Loving engenders intimacy. The resulting proximity creates space for further loving. Lynn Xu’s song is...
$17.95Large White House Speaking
Driven more by a simmering undercurrent of topic than form or principle of organization, these...
$15The Ecopoetry Anthology
The Ecopoetry Anthology is a beautifully constructed, carefully planned, and intelligently framed volume. Readers looking...
$24.95Two Reviews: New Works from SplitLevel Texts
Carla Harryman...and Catherine Meng...each offer an expansive poetics, suggesting that the inherited conventions of poetry...
$12Through the Second Skin
Sheffield’s language is mined from observation and reflection. His imagination is grounded in flora and...
$21.95Under the Sign
It turns out that ordinary mortality is the only limit to this openness, and here,...
$16.40Swamp Isthmus
The beauty of this collection, formally and thematically, is the brio Wilkinson brings to the...
$14.95Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
Hillman has a penchant for including everything: she loves the sibilance and buzz of both...
$22.95Phosphorescence of Thought
The book’s form is fluid, a central current buoys its pauses; the book unfurls, as...
$17The Poetics of Disenchantment: Buchanan and Meier
Poetry is always associated, to a certain extent, with enchantment—not necessarily magic, but a heightened...
$14.50; 15.95Armor, Amour
The poems of Armor, Amour reveal a serious mind wrestling with important subjects. The book...
$16.00Grains of the Voice
This collection is, in essence, an act of singing. Each poem lilts, echoes, trills what...
$13.99Striven, The Bright Treatise
Striven, The Bright Treatise, offers readers a graceful synthesis of art and ethics.... a point...
$25.00Companion Grasses
It is a distinct feature of [this] book that it impresses into service both logic...
$17.95A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind
You have to be fierce to write, and perhaps even read, these poems. They follow...
$18.95Road Scatter
Road Scatter, Sandra Meek’s devastating new book of poetry, aches with a sense of loss...
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