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Each month we receive dozens of review copies directly from their publishers. If you'd like to write a review of one of the books listed below, email us, and we'll send it to you -- write a review and keep the book in exchange (instead of receiving a forthcoming issue of RATTLE as payment). Email reviews editor, Megan O'Reilly::

Please note that some of the books below are chapbooks and some are uncorrected proofs rather than full-color finished books.

We're not running out of books any time soon, so for now, ask for two books instead of just one -- then feel free to review either one, or both.

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UPDATE: We're now offering copies of literary magazines for review as well. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the list.

Books Available (updated 6/18/08, latest additions on top):

• Karyna McGlynn - Alabama Steve*
• Charles Portolano - All Eyes on US
• Roger Taus - Black Pony, Red Moon
• Sally Bliumis-Dunn - Talking Underwater
• Nancy Shiffrin - The Vast Unknowing
• Patricia McCaron - Paintings & Poetry
• Ben Milder - What's so Funny About the Golden Years
• Don Thompson - Turning Sixty *
• Andrew Allport - The Ice Ship & Other Vessels *
• Harry R. Wilkens - Piss Talks *
• Mark Gibbons - Blue Horizon
• George Stratton - Granite Land Lava Land
• Elaine Sexton - Causeway
• Mike Maggio - deMOCKracy
• Sandra Kohler - The Country of Women
• Joe Larkin - Outside the Frame
• Peggy Munson - Pathogenesis
• Christian Ward - Slippage *
• Jane Pupek - Forms of Intercession
• Naomi Levine - Songs of an Aging Optimist
• Peter Krok - Looking for an EYE
• Polis Is This - Ferrini & Riaf (DVD)
• Language for a New Century: Poetry From the Middle East, Asia and Beyond
• Eric Greinke - Wild Strawberries
• Lawrence Kessenich - Strange News #
• Ralph-Michael Chiaia - Ten Poems About East Asia
• Lyn Lifshin - 92 Rapple Drive
• Dragan Dragojlovic - Death's Homeland
• Can You Stay Forever - A. Molotkov (CD)
• Wind and Waves - Le Pham Le (CD)
• Imagine: Indiana in Music and Words - Krapf & Herzig (CD)
• J. Reuben Appelman - Make Loneliness
• Michele Fabbri - Apocalisse 23
• Ellaraine Lockie - Blue Ribbons at the County Fair
• Philip Ramp - Keen
• Ellen Peckham - Ticket Stubs
• Louis Daniel Brodsky - Still Wandering in the Wilderness
• David Alpaugh - Heavy Lifting
• David James - Trembling in Someone's Palm
• Home: Anthology - ed. by Anne Brudevold
• Christopher William Purdom - too many chairs on the green hill*
• Llyn Clague - Confessions
• Van G. Garrett - Songs in Blue Negritude
• Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry
• Matt Mason - Things We Don't Know We Don't Know
• David Ray - Music of Time
• Jeanne Emmons - The Glove of the World
• Susan Firer - Milwaukee Does Strange Thinsg to People
• Celia Homesley - Body of Crimson Leaves
• Howard W. Robertson - The Bricolage of Kotegaeshi
• Anita N. Feng - Sadie & Mendel
• Michael Catherwood - Dare
• Charles Jensen - The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon*
• Vincent Zompa - Jacket of the Straits*
• Ryan Vine - Distant Engines*
• Robert Perchan - Overdressed to Kill*
• John McKernan - Resurrection of the Dust
• Richard Wilhelm - Awakenings
• Marc Ladewig - Odysseus: The Epic Myth of the Hero
• Christopher Cunningham - Flowers in the Shadow of the Storm
• Jason Heroux - The Sea Never Drowns *
• Rusty Barnes - Break it Down
• Karl Koweski - Diminishing Returns *
• Dallas Wiebe - The Sayings of Abraham Nofziger II
• Stephen Cramer - Tongue & Groove
• Judi K. Beach - How Far Light Must Travel
• Timothy B. Anderson - Frame of Mind
• Robert Bohm - Uz Um War Moan Ode *
• Marine Robert Warden - Cantacle III
• Seeing Los Angeles: a different look at a different city
• Elizabeth Knies - Going and Coming Back *
• Fred Thaballa - So Far So Good
• Anthany Seidman - Black Neon *
• Paula Bonnell - Message
• Louis Daniel Brodsky - Coming Florida's Shores
• Philip Ramp - Glass of an Organic Class
• Tony Fusco - Jessie's Garden
• Elisha Porat - Episode
• Kirby Congdon - Selected Poems & Prose Poems
• Ryan Murphy - Down With the Ship
• Terry Kennedy - Split Shift
• Preston Hood - A Chill I Understand
• Betty Pierre - Babel
• Vittoria Repetto - Not a Personal Ad
• Lester Smith - Zen Rampage
• J. Robert King - Humors
• Philip Ramp - Homing Poems
• Andrew H. Oerke - African Stilt Dancer
• Carla Panciera - One of the Cimalores
• Dwaine Rieves - When the Eye Forms
• Randy Stark - Born to Lens
• Eric Basso - The Smoking Mirror
• Carole Simmons Oles - Waking Stone
• Lois V. Walkder - Pandora's Box
• Louis Daniel Brodsky - A Transcendental Almanac
• Jay Griswold - Landscape of Exile
• Jay Griswold - Conquistador
• Arlouine Goodjohn Wu - Facing Chimeras: An Epic on Founding Jamestown
• Ruben Palma - The Trail We Leave
• Mark Salerno - Odalisque
• Parallel Verses: Eleven Poets of Marin County
• Helen Wickes - In Search of Landscape
• Herman Asarnow - Glass-Bottom Boat
• Paulo Henriques Britto - The Clean Shirt of It
• R.G. Bishop - Other Moments II
• C.G. Ferrel - Common Sense
• Jim Bell - Crossing the Bar
• Piotr Gwiazda - Gagarin Street
• Peter Conners - Of Whiskey and Winter
• Linda Larson - Washing the Stones
• John Michael Simon - Cyclamens and Swords
• Michael Amado - Poems: Unearthed from Ashes
• David Galif - Flaws
• Jonathan Cott - Homelands
• Nina Lindsay - Today's Special Dish
• Robert King - Old Man Laughing
• Patrick T. Randolph - Father's Philosophy
• Elsie H. Landstrom - Lions Walk Around My Bed

* = chapbook
# = proof
CD = CD

Literary Journals Available for Review (current issues):

• Iowa Review - 30.1
• Chicago Review - 54.1/2
• AGNI 67
• Beloit Poetry Journal - Summer 2008
• 32 Poems - 6.1
• Epoch - 57.1
• Schuylkill Valley Journal - Spring 2008
• Iconoclast
• Hiram Poetry Review
• Prairie Schooner