Book Reviews
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The Man Grave
Christopher Salerno’s The Man Grave is an exercise in duality—in studying the double-edged sword of...
$15.95
Glacial 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...
$18
Maps of Injury
I have avoided writing this essay. This essay was really supposed to be strictly a...
$12.99
Rise and Float
According to the Victoria State Government (as in Victoria, Australia), “An object floats when the...
$16
Even Shorn
In a note on the poem “Drunkard’s Path” in her debut poetry collection, Even Shorn,...
$15.95
The Survival Expo
One could call it Middle America, the Heartland, Jesusland, or any number of other monikers...
$15.95
Hesitancies
Sanjeev Sethi is a mature and conscious poet—rare qualities among writers of contemporary Indian-English poetry....
$13.99
The Whole Picture Show
Arthur McMaster’s The Whole Picture Show offers a breathtakingly beautiful portrait of everyday life. As...
$13.78
Noise Cancellation
Noise and signal are parts of the same phenomenon, but signal is the information the...
$12.99
The River in the Belly
The Congo River of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s The River in the Belly is more than...
$15.95
Vibratory Milieu
In the “Notes” to Vibratory Milieu, Carrie Hunter describes the book as a work of...
$16.95
Her Read: A Graphic Poem
Our expectations about what a book is and might contain are constantly evolving. In our...
$29.95
Moth Funerals
Gaja Rajan writes in the first poem of Moth Funerals, “You’ve heard this one before,”...
$8.50
No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man
Tobias Wray’s debut poetry collection, No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man, adapts its...
$18
Imagine Us, The Swarm
Muriel Leung’s powerful second book is divided into seven parts, each of which are formally...
$16.95
Cry Baby Mystic
Daniel Tiffany’s new book wears a sandpaper shirt, the title marked in black crayon, smeared....
$14.99
Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy
The thing about dad jokes is that they’re not for you; they’re for your father....
$12.99
Three Recommendations from the Poetry Reviews Editor
MPH and Other Road Poems by Ed Roberson (2021) Verge Books There’s a line Emerson...
Asked What Has Changed
These poems imbued with issues of climate and racial justice bristle with sound, word play,...
$24.95
Pilgrim Bell
Akbar invites his audience to read between the lines and find his shadow story—the truth...
$16
Bone Rosary
From his perch of eyewitness, Lynch presents to the literary canon his deeply considered treatise...
$25.95