Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
The Air in the Air Behind It
Though in his judge’s citation Bin Ramke calls Brandon Rushton’s Berkshire-Prize-winning, debut collection of poems,...
$21.95Through a Grainy Landscape
The nature of longing permeates Millicent Borges Accardi’s most recent collection, Through a Grainy Landscape,...
$16The Judas Ear
Anna Journey’s poems are bravura acts of sometimes goofy joy framed by a sense of...
$19.95tender gravity
Though Marybeth Holleman is the author of several nonfiction books centering around environmental issues and...
$17.95Reverse Engineer
Kate Colby’s ninth book, Reverse Engineer, meditates on questions of knowledge and everyday experience, embedding...
$17The Real World
I’ll begin my review with this somewhat embarrassing disclosure: In recent years, I’ve been basically...
$2021The Lookout Man
With a haunting nostalgia that wrestles the past into the present, Stuart Dischell’s The Lookout...
$18Rational Anthem
Casey Thayer’s latest collection, Rational Anthem, is a meditation on American patriotism and the particular...
$17.95banana [ ]
Paul Hlava Ceballos’s debut poetry collection banana [ ] was selected by Ilya Kaminsky as...
$18Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland
The Icelandic word for “lava” is hraun, and there are over four hundred named lava...
$39.95Field Notes from the Flood Zone
Field Notes from the Flood Zone, the fourth poetry collection by Heather Sellers, opens by...
$17We Are Mermaids
Stephanie Burt’s newest collection, We Are Mermaids, is a time capsule of girlhood, a transfiguration...
$17Almanac of Useless Talents
As a queer college kid studying poetry twenty years ago, I felt the sting of...
$15.95On Hysteria
Nancy Kuhl’s On Hysteria doubts and criticizes the idea of cohesiveness—of opinions, memories, and even...
$18Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking
Recently, I attended a wedding in the Catholic church on the campus where I went...
$16Breakpoint
While reading Betsy Aoki’s “techno-lit” poetry collection Breakpoint, my mind kept returning to a specific...
$17As Summer Tilts Autumnal: Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Whale Fall by David Baker (2022) W. W. Norton In poems as formally astute as...
The Forgotten World
The Forgotten World, Nick Courtright’s engrossing and multilayered third poetry collection, features the poet’s pre-pandemic,...
$15.95It Must Be a Misunderstanding
For the past few years, I’ve watched my father’s steady decline as he’s suffered from...
$16.95Questions From Outer Space
Questions From Outer Space is about coming to terms with humanity’s destructive choices and orienting...
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