Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
On Hysteria
Nancy Kuhl’s On Hysteria doubts and criticizes the idea of cohesiveness—of opinions, memories, and even...
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Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking
Recently, I attended a wedding in the Catholic church on the campus where I went...
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Breakpoint
While reading Betsy Aoki’s “techno-lit” poetry collection Breakpoint, my mind kept returning to a specific...
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As 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,...
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It Must Be a Misunderstanding
For the past few years, I’ve watched my father’s steady decline as he’s suffered from...
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Questions From Outer Space
Questions From Outer Space is about coming to terms with humanity’s destructive choices and orienting...
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Pocket Universe
Nancy Reddy’s Pocket Universe is a tender and expansive poetry collection on new motherhood. Following...
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The Long Devotion: Poets Writing on Motherhood
While reading this wonderfully expansive anthology, I was reminded of what prolific feminist writer bell...
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Genghis Chan on Drums
Whenever I read John Yau’s poetry or fiction, I am reminded of Johannes Gӧransson’s “foreigner,”...
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A List of Things I’ve Lost
In her debut poetry collection, A List of Things I’ve Lost, Tiffany Babb lingers on...
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Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara
In his debut collection, Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara, William Fargason explores...
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Trickster Academy
With a wry humor that softens reality’s hard edges, the poems in Jenny L. Davis’s...
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The Light That Burns Us
The suffering and displacement of refugees from the brutal Syrian civil war are given agency...
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Abacus of Loss
When circumstances change, we change. As with any organism, a human’s survival is predicated on...
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And If the Woods Carry You
Erin Rodoni’s And If the Woods Carry You shimmers with a mythos equal parts wondrous...
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Earthly Delights
One of the very few facts that should keep artists inspired to make more art...
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North | Rock | Edge
There is a call to approach the remote corners of the world and know, for...
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Cold Candies
In the prose poems that comprise Lee Young-Ju’s collection Cold Candies, the physical world is...
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