Bread and Circus
By: Airea Dee Matthews
4.27
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
“Discerning and significant.” — Poetry Foundation “A sharp memoir in verse.” — LitHub This powe…
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1. So Many Olympic Exertions
By: Anelise Chen
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
Blending elements of memoir and sports writing, Anelise Chen's debut novel is an experimental work … read more
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2. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.10
Format: 264 pages,
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more
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- poetry
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- memoir
3. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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- nonfiction
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"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
4. Bluest Nude: Poems
By: Ama Codjoe
4.48
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated de… read more
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5. Quiet
By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley
4.12
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more
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6. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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7. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- audiobook
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
8. Trace Evidence: Poems
By: Charif Shanahan
3.95
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more
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9. Bread and Circus
By: Airea Dee Matthews
4.27
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
“Discerning and significant.” — Poetry Foundation “A sharp memoir in verse.” — LitHub This powe… read more
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10. 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
11. Honey
By: Victor Lodato
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean… read more
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12. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
By: Briony Cameron
3.82
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one o… read more
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13. Pig: Poems
By: Sam Sax
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more
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14. Fixer: Poems
By: Edgar Kunz
4.20
Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edg… read more
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15. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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- womens
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- audiobook
"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
16. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
By: Taylor Byas
4.37
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more
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17. With My Back to the World: Poems
By: Victoria Chang
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more
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- womens
18. Finna
By: Nate Marshall
4.49
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more
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19. Pleasure Principle: Poems
By: Madeleine Cravens
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth. In her stunning debu… read more
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20. Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin Poets)
By: Adrian Matejka
3.78
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke , a finalist for… read more
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21. Night Rooms
By: Gina Nutt
3.81
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
“In a horror movie, an infected character may hide a bite or rash, an urge, an unwellness. She migh… read more
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