Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

  • Extinction of the Holy City

    Extinction of the Holy City

    By Bronisław Maj

    After World War II, multicultural Poland was forcibly rearranged. German speakers were expulsed from the...

    $17.95
  • Querida

    Querida

    By Nathan Xavier Osorio

    Embedded in place and lush with family, Nathan Xavier Osorio’s collection Querida offers an intimate...

    $18
  • I Was Working

    I Was Working

    By Ariel Yelen

    Do you occasionally fold an invoice into the shape of a futuristic spacecraft, or twist...

    $17.95
  • Milk for Gall

    Milk for Gall

    By Natalie Louise Tombasco

    Upon reading Milk for Gall, the debut poetry collection from Natalie Louise Tombasco and winner...

    $18.95
  • Notation

    Notation

    By Jordan Dunn

    It is a shame that reading calls for a silent, sitting period. It is difficult,...

    $17.95
  • The Animal Is Chemical

    The Animal Is Chemical

    By Hadara Bar-Nadav

    Hadara Bar-Nadav’s The Animal Is Chemical is a poetry collection in which generational trauma, global...

    $17.95
  • Red Ocher

    Red Ocher

    By Jessica Poli

    Jessica Poli’s debut collection, Red Ocher, stirs with its reverential questioning of ritual, boundary, and...

    $19.95
  • Inner Verses

    Inner Verses

    By Pam Rehm

    Pam Rehm’s seventh collection and her first with Wave Books, Inner Verses, gifts the reader...

    $18
  • The Fire Road

    The Fire Road

    By Nicholas Yingling

    Nicholas Yingling’s debut, The Fire Road, is a place-based poetry collection focusing on Western wildfires...

    $18
  • Mom in Space

    Mom in Space

    By Lisa Ampleman

    Driven by an infectious curiosity even amid calamity, Mom in Space explores the stunning insights...

    $22.95
  • Ghost Man on Second

    Ghost Man on Second

    By Erica Reid

    Erica Reid’s “Ghost Man,” an imaginary man who held the speaker’s place on bases during...

    $17.95
  • The Signalman

    The Signalman

    By Ezra Miles

    In Ezra Miles’s The Signalman, the weight of silence and solitude lowers and reshapes an...

    $17
  • The Real Ethereal

    The Real Ethereal

    By Katie Naughton

    Katie Naughton’s first book of poetry, The Real Ethereal, is as timely as it is...

    $20
  • Four Fields

    Four Fields

    By Dorinda Wegener

    Dorinda Wegener’s debut collection Four Fields builds a world for the reader to step into...

    $18
  • Fanling in October

    Fanling in October

    By Pui Ying Wong

    Fanling in October opens with a journey back to Pui Ying Wong’s Hong Kong roots,...

    $18
  • Beforelight

    Beforelight

    By Matthew Gellman

    Incorporating a few of the poems and themes that appeared in his collection Night Logic,...

    $18
  • To Be Named Something Else

    To Be Named Something Else

    By Shaina Phenix

    Dripping with water and blood, bursting with song and mourning, dancing with ancestral and future...

    $19.95
  • Synthetic Jungle

    Synthetic Jungle

    By Michael Chang

    As I read Synthetic Jungle, the third full-length collection Michael Chang has published since 2021,...

    $18
  • The Roof of the Whale Poems

    The Roof of the Whale Poems

    By Juan Calzadilla (translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Olivia Lott)

    In Juan Calzadilla’s The Roof of the Whale Poems, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and...

    $18.95
  • Via

    Via

    By Claire DeVoogd

    Claire DeVoogd’s debut collection of poetry is an exercise in weaving and reweaving, seaming and...

    $20
  • Nocturne in Joy

    Nocturne in Joy

    By Tatiana Johnson-Boria

    “My mother is Black / under the eyes in / twilight,” Tatiana Johnson-Boria writes in...

    $12.99
  • I Want to Tell You

    I Want to Tell You

    By Jesse Lee Kercheval

    Jesse Lee Kercheval’s poetry in I Want to Tell You works toward a language of...

    $18