Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
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1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
2. Look
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.16
Format: 84 pages,
*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
3. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
4. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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5. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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6. 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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7. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- adult
- queer
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
8. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- adult
- queer
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
9. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
10. 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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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- adult
- queer
"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
11. 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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- 21st century
- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"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
12. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
13. Homie
By: Danez Smith
4.42
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"-Danez Smith, Homie
"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"-Danez Smith, Homie
14. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- adult
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
15. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem
- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- feminism
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- adult
- queer
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
16. Customs: Poems
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
17. Soft Science
By: Franny Choi
3.93
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- adult
- queer
"having been hurt before"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"fiended; fell for another"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"it's too late to stop smiling."-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
18. 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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- 21st century
- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
"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
19. A Fortune for Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.47
Format: None pages, None
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- adult
20. Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
By: John Murillo
4.45
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
John Murillo’s second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence a… read more
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- poetry
21. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
By: torrin a. greathouse
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
