Flèche
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.23
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of…
Want to Read $ 14.99"What does three years of famine teach a person? Nothing."-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
"What does three years of famine teach a person? Nothing."-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
"What does three years of famine teach a person? Nothing."-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
"if the legislators of our world looked to their trees for guidance would they reconsider everything?"-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
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1. Serious Concerns
By: Wendy Cope
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
2. If I Don't Know
By: Wendy Cope
3.85
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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- poetry
3. Dream Work
By: Mary Oliver
4.35
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
4. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
5. 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
- nonfiction
- contemporary
6. Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
By: Wendy Cope
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
7. The Bees
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.04
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
'The Bees' is a collection of poetry from the pen of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Weaving through… read more
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- contemporary
- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
8. Diving Into the Wreck
By: Adrienne Rich
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the d… read more
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9. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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10. Physical
By: Andrew McMillan
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Raw and urgent, these poems are hy… read more
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11. 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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12. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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- 21st century
- poetry
- contemporary
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
13. 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
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- 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
14. 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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- poetry
- contemporary
15. C+nto and Othered Poems
By: Joelle Taylor
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
16. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
17. Self-Portrait as Othello
By: Jason Allen-Paisant
4.02
Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Long… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
18. Flèche
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.23
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Mary Jean Chan's Flèche book and Mary Jean Chan's Flèche
- lesbian
- poetry
- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- china
- queer
"What does three years of famine teach a person? Nothing."-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
"if the legislators of our world looked to their trees for guidance would they reconsider everything?"-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
19. 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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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
- audiobook
20. Soho
By: Richard Scott
4.09
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- queer
21. Bluff: Poems
By: Danez Smith
4.53
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
- contemporary
- audiobook
