Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
Because I Am the Shore I Want to Be the Sea
Ashley experiments with metaphor to translate life into image and image into life for an...
$16
Someone Else’s Wedding Vows
...the kind of love continually appearing in Stone's Someone Else's Wedding Vows, is the kind...
$14
88 Sonnets
Clark Coolidge is no stranger to crystalline poetic forms. But sonnets? Such a traditional structure...
$15.95
A Conjoined Book
Those who like to think of poetry as the purest expression of a unified self,...
$17.95
The Next Monsters
The Next Monsters is an accomplished volume, one that's as carefully crafted as it is...
$14.95
The Monarchs
Noel’s unwavering awareness is so keen and rapt that as it perceives it also exerts...
$18
Debts & Lessons
Loving engenders intimacy. The resulting proximity creates space for further loving. Lynn Xu’s song is...
$17.95
Large White House Speaking
Driven more by a simmering undercurrent of topic than form or principle of organization, these...
$15
The Ecopoetry Anthology
The Ecopoetry Anthology is a beautifully constructed, carefully planned, and intelligently framed volume. Readers looking...
$24.95
Two Reviews: New Works from SplitLevel Texts
Carla Harryman...and Catherine Meng...each offer an expansive poetics, suggesting that the inherited conventions of poetry...
$12
Through the Second Skin
Sheffield’s language is mined from observation and reflection. His imagination is grounded in flora and...
$21.95
Under the Sign
It turns out that ordinary mortality is the only limit to this openness, and here,...
$16.40
Swamp Isthmus
The beauty of this collection, formally and thematically, is the brio Wilkinson brings to the...
$14.95
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
Hillman has a penchant for including everything: she loves the sibilance and buzz of both...
$22.95
Phosphorescence of Thought
The book’s form is fluid, a central current buoys its pauses; the book unfurls, as...
$17
The Poetics of Disenchantment: Buchanan and Meier
Poetry is always associated, to a certain extent, with enchantment—not necessarily magic, but a heightened...
$14.50; 15.95
Armor, Amour
The poems of Armor, Amour reveal a serious mind wrestling with important subjects. The book...
$16.00
Grains of the Voice
This collection is, in essence, an act of singing. Each poem lilts, echoes, trills what...
$13.99
Striven, The Bright Treatise
Striven, The Bright Treatise, offers readers a graceful synthesis of art and ethics.... a point...
$25.00
Companion Grasses
It is a distinct feature of [this] book that it impresses into service both logic...
$17.95