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”…
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1. Incarnadine: Poems
By: Mary Szybist
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
The troubadours knew how to burn themselves through, how to make themselves shrines to their own lo… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
2. 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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3. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- poetry
- art
- history
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
4. 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
"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
5. 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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- asian literature
- poetry
- contemporary
"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
6. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
7. From From: Poems
By: Monica Youn
4.18
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
8. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
9. 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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- poetry
- contemporary
10. 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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- poetry
- contemporary
"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
11. 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
- nonfiction
- contemporary
12. Judas Goat: Poems
By: Gabrielle Bates
4.21
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more
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- poetry
13. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
14. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- asian literature
- poetry
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
15. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
16. 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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- poetry
- art
- history
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
17. Grand Tour: Poems
By: Elisa Gonzalez
3.92
Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition
Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it g… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Rupture Tense
By: Jenny Xie
3.91
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorke… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
19. 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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- poetry
- 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
20. 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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21. 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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- poetry
22. So to Speak (Penguin Poets)
By: Terrance Hayes
4.17
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–w… read more
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- poetry
23. Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
24. Root Fractures: Poems
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s… read more
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- asian literature
- poetry
25. Theophanies
By: Sarah Ghazal Ali
4.46
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more
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- poetry
26. Eye Level: Poems
By: Jenny Xie
4.14
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
"Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill."-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
"Like a mule I understand one suffers by the load one chooses"-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
"[13] (from "Visual Orders") Look at how I perform for you Look at how you perform for me An eye for an eye is how you and I take on forms in the mind"-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
27. 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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- nonfiction
- contemporary
"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
28. 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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- nonfiction
29. 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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- art
- contemporary
30. A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems
By: Mary Jo Bang
3.80
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked… read more
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- poetry
31. All Souls: Poems
By: Saskia Hamilton
3.68
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
In All Souls , Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the… read more
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