You Better Be Lightning
By: Andrea Gibson
4.63
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s…
Want to Read $ 15.31"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
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1. Our Numbered Days
By: Neil Hilborn
4.24
Format: 212 pages,
In 2013, Neil Hilborn's performance of his poem "OCD" went viral. To date, it has been watched over… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- mental health
2. After the Witch Hunt
By: Megan Falley
3.90
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
In Megan Falleys new poetry collection, The Newlydeads, she writes, "...if you really love a writer… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
- lgbt
3. The Human Line
By: Ellen Bass
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
"Poetry," writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, "is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give prai… read more
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4. 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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- poetry
- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"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
5. 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
- adult
- nonfiction
"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
6. 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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- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"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
7. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
8. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
9. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky
By: Rudy Francisco
4.64
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With … read more
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- poetry
10. This Is the Honey
By: Kwame Alexander
4.47
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising… read more
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- poetry
- short stories
- nonfiction
- adult
11. 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
- adult
- nonfiction
12. You Better Be Lightning
By: Andrea Gibson
4.63
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more
Want to Read $ 15.31Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's You Better Be Lightning book and Andrea Gibson's You Better Be Lightning
- poetry
- gay
- lgbt
- feminism
- mental health
- queer lit
- short stories
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
13. Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction
By: Jared Singer
3.93
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
Singer’s highly anticipated debut book collects and transforms work from his ten years as a mainsta… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
14. Sweet, Young, & Worried
By: Blythe Baird
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
15. Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)
By: Ollie Schminkey
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Dead Dad Jokes is an unflinching take on family, loss and trauma. There is nothing quiet about Schm… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"when i spell grief, i can never remember if the i or e comes first, so i spend each day autocorrecting my greif, my grief, greif, grief, greif, until i can finally figure out what the fuck it is i’m …"-Ollie Schminkey, Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)
"i see an old man using a walker on the sidewalk, and my stomach aches for those 30 years my dad never got. if i die at the same age as my dad, my life is almost half up. i imagine him sitting at a pa…"-Ollie Schminkey, Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)
16. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
17. Drive Here and Devastate Me
By: Megan Falley
4.51
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Megan Falley's much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry shocks you with its whether through ex… read more
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- poetry
- gay
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
18. Date & Time (Button Poetry)
By: Phil Kaye
4.21
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Phil Kaye's debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and cel… read more
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- poetry
19. Nothing Is Okay
By: Rachel Wiley
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Nothing is Okay is the second full-length collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously dec… read more
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- poetry
- gay
- lgbt
- feminism
- mental health
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
20. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
By: Prentis Hemphill
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more
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- nonfiction
- mental health
21. A Socially Acceptable Breakdown
By: Patrick Roche
4.26
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
A Socially Acceptable Breakdown is a poetry collection that explores themes of family, queerness, m… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
