Book Reviews
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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...
$26.95
Genghis Chan on Drums
Whenever I read John Yau’s poetry or fiction, I am reminded of Johannes Gӧransson’s “foreigner,”...
$17.95
A List of Things I’ve Lost
In her debut poetry collection, A List of Things I’ve Lost, Tiffany Babb lingers on...
$16.95
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...
$19.95
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