Book Reviews
New reading recommendations from Colorado Review
La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living
Through imperial violence we are made alien in our own land. “This belongs to you....
$17.95
Hot with the Bad Things
Grieving violence creates a kind of horrific palimpsest of how the public choruses events....
$16.95
Paper Bells
Awash with wandering loneliness, Phan’s lines vacillate from contemplative to biting, economical to allegorical...
$17.95
The Fire Eater
Herein lies the beauty of Hernandez Diaz’s poetry: what is real is up for grabs,...
$16.95
A Princess Magic Presto Spell
Jarnot’s poetry can serve as a model for a mother’s creativity and nurturing—a way to...
$16.95
The Voice of Sheila Chandra
Ali strives to throw words out to the cosmos with the velocity of an electron....
$17.95
Ajar To The Night
The book ajar, we witness ourselves becoming somewhat else. Ajar To The Night, we slip...
$4.99
Thrown in the Throat
Garcia’s “throat is [a] throne,” a poetics of reclamation and sensual pleasure. Yield to and...
$16.00
Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World
This collection serves as a physical reminder of the ways we both move in the...
$16.00
Library of Small Catastrophes
What makes these poems so intensely moving, so worthy of an adoration to match, is...
$16.00
Habitat Threshold
As poets—non-journalists—we are frequently caught between conflicting expectations for our art. We are told not...
$17.95
All the Great Territories
In the beginning, Wimberley struggles to mourn the loss of home, father, and country. And...
$16.95
Cage of Lit Glass
These poems illuminate the seemingly endless cycles of violence that perpetuate government-sanctioned surveillance and incarceration,...
$16.95
Repetition Nineteen
By presenting the reader with twenty-five different translations of the same poem—which deliberately raises questions...
$18.95
Pale Colors in a Tall Field
That seems to be what Phillips sets out to do, to keep beginning, and that...
$23.00
Tracing the Horse
What does it mean to be herself in this Mexican-American culture? The last section moves...
$17.00
Ravage & Snare
The poems are muscular with allusion and wordplay, citing sources diverse as Old English poems...
$16.00
We Fell into Weather
It’s no secret that the world is changing radically; from massive (and righteous) civil unrest...
$20.00
Grief Sequence
In Prageeta Sharma’s collection of poems, her husband’s sudden death makes vivid their emotional and...
$20.00
Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition
At another point, she asserts, “The question is who to be writing this.” Writer, mother,...
$20.00
The Museum of Small Bones
We delight in the distractions of the circus, though we understand its wonders are illusions,...
$19.95
You Are Still Alive
Rather than this dissipating energy, however, Stobb uses the material to perform serious, nearly Buddhist...
$16.00