Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems
By: Kim Addonizio
4.05
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A dark, no-holds-barred, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet, veering between …
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1. Behind My Eyes: Poems
By: Li-Young Lee
4.07
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A highly anticipated collection from one of the most powerful voices at work in America today. Comb… read more
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"Have You Prayed"-Li-Young Lee, Behind My Eyes: Poems
"SELF-HELP FOR FELLOW REFUGEES If your name suggests a country where bells might have been used for entertainment, or to announce the entrances and exits of the seasons and the birthdays of gods and d…"-Li-Young Lee, Behind My Eyes: Poems
2. American Primitive
By: Mary Oliver
4.39
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Her most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive … read more
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"there's a sickness worse than the risk of death and that's forgetting what we should never forget."-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"Fear defeated me. And yet, not in faith and not in madness but with the courage I thought my dream deserved, I stepped outside."-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"The sky, after all, stops at nothing, so something has to be holding our bodies in its rich and timeless stables or else we would fly away"-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it…"-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
3. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
4. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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5. What the Living Do: Poems
By: Marie Howe
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more
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7. Jane: A Murder
By: Maggie Nelson
3.93
Format: None pages,
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered … read more
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8. Good Bones
By: Maggie Smith
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children t… read more
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9. 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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10. 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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11. Stag's Leap: Poems
By: Sharon Olds
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more
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12. 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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13. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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14. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
15. 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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"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
16. 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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"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
17. 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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"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
18. 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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"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
19. The Flame
By: Leonard Cohen
4.05
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span gene… read more
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"And that was my mistake I didn't kill the snake I gave the snake a break Unbiblical"-Leonard Cohen, The Flame
"Straighten up, little warrior [...] It's not as though you wasted your life by loving me."-Leonard Cohen, The Flame
"the flags from the nation but your absence comes from a terrible sleep under a huge museum Enter the moth holes of my longing"-Leonard Cohen, The Flame
"I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I’m old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering com…"-Leonard Cohen, The Flame
20. 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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"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
21. Murder Under a Red Moon (Bangalore Detectives Club, #2)
By: Harini Nagendra
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The latest novel in the acclaimed Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murt… read more
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22. Love and Other Poems
By: Alex Dimitrov
4.10
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin… read more
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23. A Hundred Lovers: Poems
By: Richie Hofmann
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly a… read more
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24. Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems
By: Kim Addonizio
4.05
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A dark, no-holds-barred, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet, veering between … read more
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"I'm just going to have one last blackout in a dirty pink lace dress"-Kim Addonizio, Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems
25. Space Struck
By: Paige Lewis
4.07
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more
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"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
26. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
By: Jake Skeets
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men “only touch when they fuck in a backseat.” Its landscap… read more
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27. Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
By: Rita Dove
4.08
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral comp… read more
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28. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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29. Summer Solstice: An Essay
By: Nina MacLaughlin
4.29
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Summer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dream… read more
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"…it is summer and there is freedom, and time, and luck to be had."-Nina MacLaughlin, Summer Solstice: An Essay
"June verges. It shifts. And it holds two forces at once: the start of summer, the start of darkening."-Nina MacLaughlin, Summer Solstice: An Essay
"Long light and there’s something in the air. Frog-song and bug-song in the air. Honeysuckle in the air. Dew in the air and beading on the tips of petal tongues."-Nina MacLaughlin, Summer Solstice: An Essay
30. Good Grief, the Ground
By: Margaret Ray
4.48
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Margaret Ray is pulling back the curtains on our societal performance of culture, guiding an exposi… read more
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31. Wound Is the Origin of Wonder: Poems
By: Maya C. Popa
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
“This book is an astonishment. In ravishing, formally exploratory poems, Maya C. Popa wields the ly… read more
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