American Melancholy: Poems
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.48
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce C…
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1. Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
By: Mary Oliver
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such… read more
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- poetry
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2. Sharks in the Rivers
By: Ada Limon
3.95
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more
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- poetry
- american
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- adult
3. Horoscopes for the Dead
By: Billy Collins
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
WINNER--BEST POETRY--GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK/T… read more
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- poetry
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4. Faithful and Virtuous Night
By: Louise Glück
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more
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- poetry
- american
5. Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems
By: Billy Collins
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
The first volume of New and Selected poetry in twelve years from the two-time Poet Laureate of the … read more
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6. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
By: Toni Morrison , Lucille Clifton , Kevin Young , Michael S. Glaser
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
"The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010may be the most important book of poetry to appear… read more
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7. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
By: Joy Harjo
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of … read more
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8. Morning in the Burned House
By: Margaret Atwood
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
These beautifully crafted poems - by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate - … read more
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9. Life on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.45
Format: 122 pages,
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more
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10. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
11. An American Sunrise
By: Joy Harjo
4.28
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more
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"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
12. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
13. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- american
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
14. Woman Without Shame: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Musical Tables: Poems
By: Billy Collins
3.79
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
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17. Goldenrod: Poems
By: Maggie Smith
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more
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- adult
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"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
18. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Laura E. Anderson
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
19. Antiquity
By: Hanna Johansson
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish auth… read more
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- adult
20. The Trees Witness Everything
By: Victoria Chang
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more
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- nonfiction
21. American Melancholy: Poems
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.48
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce C… read more
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22. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.86
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other… read more
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- american
- poetry plays
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that’s the thing. To ma…"-Barbara Kingsolver, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
23. Dearly
By: Margaret Atwood
3.74
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more
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"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
24. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
25. The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems
By: Sally Wen Mao
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, “a consistently inspiring and exciting voice”… read more
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- nonfiction
26. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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- nonfiction
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"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
27. A Year of Last Things: Poems
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.61
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more
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- audiobook
28. Normal Distance
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.70
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A collection of funny and thought-provoking poems inspired by surprising facts that will appeal to … read more
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- adult
29. Wade in the Water: Poems
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.10
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more
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"History is a ship forever setting sail."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
30. Summer Snow: New Poems
By: Robert Hass
3.69
Format: 192 pages, ebook
A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning au… read more
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- american
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31. The Sorrow Apartments
By: Andrea Cohen
4.13
Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition
About Andrea Cohen’s poems, Christian Wiman has “One is caught off guard by their cumulative force… read more
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