Magdalene: Poems
By: Marie Howe
4.10
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene…
Want to Read $ 9.99"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing worse could come. Then nothing did, and no one."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only a little. We met — in our mutual gaze — in between a third place I'd not yet been."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
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1. 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
- mythology
- fiction
- the united states of america
"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
2. Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (Swenson Poetry Award)
By: Luisa A. Igloria
4.45
Format: 70 pages, Hardcover
“When Luisa Igloria cites Epictetus―‘as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and anot… read more
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- poetry
3. Dark Hours
By: Conchitina R. Cruz
4.26
Format: 68 pages,
“At this historical moment when the issue of how to respond to suffering is so fraught as to leave … read more
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- poetry
4. 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
- religion
- the united states of america
5. Night Picnic: Poems
By: Charles Simic
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
The poems in Charles Simic's new collection evoke a variety of settings and images, from New York C… read more
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- poetry
6. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
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- poetry
8. 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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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. 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. 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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12. Red Bird
By: Mary Oliver
2.83
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's… read more
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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
- the united states of america
"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. 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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- poetry
- the united states of america
"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
15. Indigo
By: Ellen Bass
4.48
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Indigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
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
17. 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
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- poetry
- feminism
"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
18. Magdalene: Poems
By: Marie Howe
4.10
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene… read more
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- poetry
- retellings
- the united states of america
- christianity
- feminism
- poetry plays
- religion
- spirituality
- fiction
- mythology
"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing w…"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only …"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
19. elsewhere held and lingered
By: Conchitina R. Cruz
4.52
Format: 81 pages, None
elsewhere held and lingered is Conchitina Cruz’s third book, following Disappear (High Chair, 2004)… read more
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- poetry
20. Lola Coqueta
By: Isabela Banzon
4.06
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
Direct rhythms, a wry yet personal approach to experience and memory, oblique with evasion, and ani… read more
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- poetry
21. Bago Mo Ako Ipalaot
By: Luna Sicat Cleto
3.75
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
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