Book Reviews
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The Latitude of a Mercy
One of the defining characteristics of “the modern” has long been a heightened consciousness of...
$18.95The Book of Fools
How to Erase One’s Descent “and only he who descends into the nether world shall...
$22.08Against Silence
At the end of his new book, Frank Bidart ridicules Hamlet for thinking “the rest...
$25Sawgrass Sky
Organized into five breathtaking sections, Andrew Hemmert’s memoir-in-verse, Sawgrass Sky, dazzles me with its visceral...
$19.95Factory Girls
Takako Arai’s Factory Girls is a protest book, whose patchwork of poems and narrative voices...
$18origin story
The first thing Gary Jackson does in origin story is confide in us. Some poems...
$18.95As Winter Tilts into Spring: Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
Heard-Hoard by Atsuro Riley (2021) University of Chicago Press The title alone of Atsuro Riley’s...
The Man Grave
Christopher Salerno’s The Man Grave is an exercise in duality—in studying the double-edged sword of...
$15.95Glacial Decoys
In Trisha Brown’s Glacial Decoy, the performance that lends its title to Luke Roberts’s new...
Jesus Comes to Me as Judy Garland
David J.S. Pickering’s latest collection begins with a poem about feeling both at home and...
$18Maps of Injury
I have avoided writing this essay. This essay was really supposed to be strictly a...
$12.99Rise and Float
According to the Victoria State Government (as in Victoria, Australia), “An object floats when the...
$16Even Shorn
In a note on the poem “Drunkard’s Path” in her debut poetry collection, Even Shorn,...
$15.95The Survival Expo
One could call it Middle America, the Heartland, Jesusland, or any number of other monikers...
$15.95Hesitancies
Sanjeev Sethi is a mature and conscious poet—rare qualities among writers of contemporary Indian-English poetry....
$13.99The Whole Picture Show
Arthur McMaster’s The Whole Picture Show offers a breathtakingly beautiful portrait of everyday life. As...
$13.78Noise Cancellation
Noise and signal are parts of the same phenomenon, but signal is the information the...
$12.99The River in the Belly
The Congo River of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s The River in the Belly is more than...
$15.95Vibratory Milieu
In the “Notes” to Vibratory Milieu, Carrie Hunter describes the book as a work of...
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