BOOK REVIEWS

Too many good poetry books go without notice, and while we can't publish as many reviews as there are books that deserve them, we hope to help give notice to as many as possible.

Because of space restrictions in our print journal, we are now publishing additional reviews online only. These will appear throughout the year and not just when we publish a new issue.

OLDER

Listed alphabetically by author's last name

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• Susan Allspaw: Little Oblivion
  reviewed by Andrew C. Gottlieb
   

• Renee Angle: WoO
  reviewed by Michael McLane
   

• Kristin George Bagdanov: Fossils in the Making and Diurne
  reviewed by Dayna Patterson
   

• Shanan Ballam: Inside the Animal
  reviewed by Ben Gunsberg
   

• Shanan Ballam: Pretty Marrow
  reviewed by Shari Zollinger
   

• Hadara Bar-Nadav: The Frame Called Ruin
  reviewed by Michael McLane
   

• Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise
  reviewed by Katherine Hollander
   

• Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: Personal Science
  reviewed by C.K. Coombs
   

• ​Michele Bombardier: What We Do
  reviewed by MaryEllen Talley
   

• Ash Bowen: The Even Years of Marriage
  reviewed by William Neumire
   

• Gaylord Brewer: Country of Ghost
  reviewed by John Pickett
   

• Gaylord Brewer: Give Over, Graymalkin
  reviewed by Robin Linn
   

• Gaylord Brewer: Worship the Pig
  reviewed by Star Coulbrooke
   

• Tracy Brimhall: Rookery
  reviewed by Christopher Leibow
   

• Teresa Cader: History of Hurricanes
  reviewed by Michael McLane
   

• Lara Candland: The Lapidary’s Nosegay
  reviewed by B.J. Buckley
   

• Macgregor Card: Duties of an English Foreign Secretaryreviewed by Curtis Jensen
   

• Rob Carney: 88 Maps
  reviewed by Lexi Jocelyn
   

• Rob Carney: Facts + Figures
  reviewed by Diane Raptosh
   

• Rob Carney: Story Problems
  reviewed by Anne Shifrer
   

• Robert Carr: The Unbuttoned Eye
  reviewed by Devon Balwit
   

• Eileen Cleary: Child Ward of the Commonwealth
  reviewed by Christine Jones
   

• Matthew Cooperman: Still: of the Earth as the Ark Which Does Not Move
  reviewed by Jerry Carlin
   

• Matthew Cooperman: Spool
  reviewed by Cassandra Cleghorn
   

• Steven Cramer: Clangings
  reviewed by Dylan Mace
   

• Steven Cramer: Listen
  reviewed by Clarissa Adkins
   

• Meg Day: Last Psalm at Sea Level
  reviewed by Andrew Haley
   

• Nick Demske: Nick Demske
  reviewed by Michael McLane
   

• Gary Dop: Father, Child, Water
  reviewed by Josh Cook
   

• Lisa Dordal: Commemoration
  reviewed by Patrick Thomas Henry
   

• Danielle Beazer Dubrasky: Ruin and Light
  reviewed by Nancy Takacs
   

• Okla Elliott: The Cartographer's Ink
  reviewed by Justin Hamm
   

• CJ Evans: A Penance
  reviewed by Erin L. Miller
   

• Kathy Fagan: Sycamore
  reviewed by Cassandra Cleghorn
   

• Yolanda J. Franklin: Blood Vinyls
  reviewed by Sarah Giragosian
   

• Bill Harris: Booker T. and Them: A Blues
  reviewed by Patrick Thomas Henry
   

• Matt Hart: Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless
  reviewed by Adam Love
   

• Sara Henning: A Sweeter Water
  reviewed by Kate Savage
   

• Harmony Holiday: Negro League Baseball
  reviewed by Steve Langan
   

• Mark Irwin: Large White House Speaking
  reviewed by Danielle Beazer Dubrasky
   

• Mark Jackley: Every Green Word
  reviewed by Christopher Lee Miles
   

• Gary Jackson: Missing You, Metropolis
  reviewed by Nick DePascal
   

• Javon Johnson: Ain't Never Not Been Black 
  reviewed by Elisa Crawley
   

• Kirsten Jorgenson: Sediment & Veil
  reviewed by Michael McLane
   

• Fady Joudah: Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance 
  reviewed by Donna Vorreyer
   

• Illya Kaminski: Deaf Republic
  reviewed by Deborah Bacharach
   

• Aby Kaupang: Absence Is Such a Transparent House
  reviewed by Andrew David King
   

• Aby Kaupang & Matthew Cooperman:NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified)
  reviewed by Michael McLane
   

• Katie Kingston: History of Grey
  reviewed by Diana Anhalt
   

• Kate Kingston: Shaking the Kaleidoscope
  reviewed by Nancy Takacs
   

• William Kloefkorn and David Lee: Moments of Delicate Balance
  reviewed by Gary Dop
   

• Brian Laidlaw: The Stuntman
  reviewed by Josh Cook
   

• Steve Langan: Meet Me at the Happy Bar
  reviewed by Liz Kay
   

• David Lee: Bluebonnets, Firewheels, and Brown-Eyed Susans
  reviewed by Nancy Takacs
   

• Ada Limón: The Carrying
  reviewed by Peter H. Michaels
   

• Ada Limón: The Carrying
  reviewed by Katie Jean Shinkle
   

• Rebecca Lindenberg: The Logan Notebooks
  reviewed by Stefanie Wortman
   

• dawn lonsinger: Whelm
  reviewed by Kate Rosenberg
   

• Anna Maris: lifedeathetc / livdödetc
  reviewed by stinne storm
   

• Chris Martin: Becoming Weather
  reviewed by Curtis Jensen
   

• Jena Osman: The Network
  reviewed by Nick DePascal
   

• Dayna Patterson: If Mother Braids a Waterfall
  reviewed by Star Coulbrooke
   

• Jim Peterson: Original Face
  reviewed by Gary Dop
   

• Scott Poole: The Sliding Glass Door
  reviewed by Rob Carney
   

•  Elizabeth A. I. Powell: Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Or Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances
  reviewed by Jamie Wendt 
   

•  Melissa Range: Scriptorium
  reviewed by Philip Belcher
    

• Donald Revell: Tantivy
  reviewed by Andrew Haley
   

• Sundin Richards: The Hurricane Lamp
  reviewed by Andrew Haley
   

• Matthew Rohrer: Destroyer and Preserver
  reviewed by Steve Langan
   

• Steven Schroeder: The Royal Nonesuch
  reviewed by William Neumire
   

• Peggy Shumaker: Cairn: New and Selected
  reviewed by Mary Ellen Talley
   

• Christopher Stackhouse: Plural
  reviewed by Patrick Thomas Henry
   

• stinne storm: jämtska – of fluids and listening. 
  reviewed by Amy Brunvand
   

• Robert Sward: New and Selected Poems 1957–2011
  reviewed by Iris Jamahl Dunkle
   

• Nancy Takacs: Blue Patina
  reviewed by Kate Kingston
   

• Nancy Takacs: Juniper
  reviewed by Carol Henrikson
   

• Nancy Takacs: The Worrier
  reviewed by Kate Kingston
   

• Larry D. Thomas: A Murder of Crows
  reviewed by Jeffrey C. Alfier
   

• Jonathan Travelstead: Conflict Tours
  reviewed by Michael McLane
   

• William Trowbridge: Ship of Fool
  reviewed by Liz Kay
   

• Angela Voras-Hills: Louder Birds
  reviewed by Katherine Hollander
   

• Charles Harper Webb: What Things Are Made Of
  reviewed by Gary Dop
   

• Sarah Wetzel: The Davids Inside David
  reviewed by Deborah Bacharach
   

• Joshua Marie Wilkinson: The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth
  reviewed by Michael McLane
   

• Sunni Brown Wilkinson: The Marriage of the Moon and the Field
  reviewed by Nancy Takacs