Book Reviews
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Trickster Academy
With a wry humor that softens reality’s hard edges, the poems in Jenny L. Davis’s...
$16.95
The Light That Burns Us
The suffering and displacement of refugees from the brutal Syrian civil war are given agency...
$16
Abacus of Loss
When circumstances change, we change. As with any organism, a human’s survival is predicated on...
$13.46
And If the Woods Carry You
Erin Rodoni’s And If the Woods Carry You shimmers with a mythos equal parts wondrous...
$16
Earthly Delights
One of the very few facts that should keep artists inspired to make more art...
$45
North | Rock | Edge
There is a call to approach the remote corners of the world and know, for...
$14.99
Cold Candies
In the prose poems that comprise Lee Young-Ju’s collection Cold Candies, the physical world is...
$16
A Myth of Ariadne
Martha Ronk’s A Myth of Ariadne examines our contemporary apathy toward war, casual violence, and...
$14.99
Scale Model of a Country at Dawn
I finished John Sibley Williams’s Scale Model of a Country at Dawn on a beautiful...
$18.95
Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners
In Sarah Mangold’s bold fourth collection, Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners, the definition of...
$19.95
The Thicket
Kasey Jueds’s second collection, The Thicket, has intersecting emotional and imagistic arcs that reward the...
$18
What Though the Field Be Lost
Throughout his second poetry collection, Christopher Kempf reckons with the schisms at the root of...
$18.95
Beautiful Objects
Of the major Australian poets writing in the final decades of the twentieth century, Martin...
$29.99
Arsenal With Praise Song
Rodney Gómez’s Arsenal With Praise Song offers a world of bones and horns, of rivers...
$14
The Latitude of a Mercy
One of the defining characteristics of “the modern” has long been a heightened consciousness of...
$18.95
The Book of Fools
How to Erase One’s Descent “and only he who descends into the nether world shall...
$22.08
Against Silence
At the end of his new book, Frank Bidart ridicules Hamlet for thinking “the rest...
$25
Sawgrass Sky
Organized into five breathtaking sections, Andrew Hemmert’s memoir-in-verse, Sawgrass Sky, dazzles me with its visceral...
$19.95
Factory Girls
Takako Arai’s Factory Girls is a protest book, whose patchwork of poems and narrative voices...
$18
origin story
The first thing Gary Jackson does in origin story is confide in us. Some poems...
$18.95