Citizen Illegal
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of C…
Want to Read $ 11.87"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
"my enemies aren’t ugly-faced crooks, they don’t laugh while innocent die. they point & say how tragic then go home to pet their cute dogs."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
"my enemies aren’t ugly-faced crooks, they don’t laugh while innocent die. they point & say how tragic then go home to pet their cute dogs."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
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1. Blood Dazzler
By: Patricia Smith
4.42
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-bl… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
2. The Crown Ain't Worth Much
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
3.69
Format: 192 pages,
The Crown Ain t Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib s first full-length collection, is a sharp and … read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Look
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.16
Format: 84 pages,
*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
4. Unaccompanied
By: Javier Zamora
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-butto… read more
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- poetry
- race
- memoir
- politics
- latin american
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5. 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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6. 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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7. Lessons on Expulsion
By: Erika L. Sánchez
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An award-winning and hard-hitting new voice in contemporary American poetry The first time I ever c… read more
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9. 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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- poetry
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"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.
10. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- poetry
- race
- social justice
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
11. 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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- 21st century
- poetry
- 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
12. Homie
By: Danez Smith
4.42
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"-Danez Smith, Homie
"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"-Danez Smith, Homie
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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- 21st century
- 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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- poetry
- race
"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. Oceanic
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
16. Citizen Illegal
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of C… read more
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- poetry
- race
- memoir
- politics
- latin american
- latino
- nonfiction
- social justice
- family
- 21st century
"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
"my enemies aren’t ugly-faced crooks, they don’t laugh while innocent die. they point & say how tragic then go home to pet their cute dogs."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
17. Wade in the Water: Poems
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.10
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more
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- 21st century
- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
"History is a ship forever setting sail."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
18. Blood Orange
By: Yaffa As
4.60
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
19. Corazón
By: Yesika Salgado
4.38
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger … read more
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- poetry
- latino
"and if he loves you, what is next?"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"I am good at this / turning heart ache into a party"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"tonight I'll dance I'll be alive and ain't that worth the party?"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"I come from women who fend for themselves the blade is our friend and you? you are a weed I know how to slice you out of me"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
20. Finna
By: Nate Marshall
4.49
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more
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- race
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- social justice
21. Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
By: Sherman Kennon
4.35
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
Whisk Of Dust is a book of poetry. It aims to uplift and inspire, as it speaks of love, peace, and … read more
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"Each moment embrace or more so cherish. As gentle the wind blows,"-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
"Just as dust of a gentle breeze, quiet ascends of fallen leaves, upward to the skies. Still, we rise."-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
"Still I chase the wind and float as a gentle breeze up among the stars then descending as a bird down amidst the trees."-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
"Things are sometimes faded but they will always become clear, where there seems nothing but bad look closer, you’re sure to find good."-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
