We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems
By: William Evans
4.13
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Probl…
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1. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
2. 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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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- african american
"...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
3. Depression & Other Magic Tricks
By: Sabrina Benaim
4.27
Format: 359 pages,
Depression & Other Magic Tricksis the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performa… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
4. The Game of Boxes: Poems
By: Catherine Barnett
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The second collection by Catherine Barnett, whose "poems are scrupulously restrained and beautifull… read more
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5. The Sobbing School
By: Eugene Gloria , Joshua Bennett
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series The Sobbing School, Joshua Ben… read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. I Wrote This For You and Only You
By: pleasefindthis , Iain S. Thomas , Jon Ellis
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
"I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you." The … read more
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9. Felon: Poems
By: Reginald Dwayne Betts
4.34
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
10. For Every One
By: Jason Reynolds
4.30
Format: 102 pages, Hardcover
Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"Dreams don't have timelines, deadlines, and aren't always in straight lines."-Jason Reynolds, For Every One
"When it comes to my dream, the way I like to describe it is that it's a rabid beast that found me when I was young"-Jason Reynolds, For Every One
"The truth is, finding that beast may or may not happen. But the treasures I've discovered under the heavy stones and behind the massive trees and deep in the dark caves have created the hunter and th…"-Jason Reynolds, For Every One
"One thing I am now certain of is that this road less traveled has in fact been traveled by far more suckers than you think. All of us out here, slumped over wearing weird fake broken smiles, trying t…"-Jason Reynolds, For Every One
11. 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
- african american
- audiobook
"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
12. 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
- race
- audiobook
"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
13. 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
- race
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
"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
14. The Ghosts of Rose Hill
By: R.M. Romero
3.98
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Magic will burn you up. Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an a… read more
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"PS I know I can always count on your silence. It's my own I'm not used to."-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
"The kiss lasts for his lifetime and my unfolding one. It reaches lives we haven't lived yet, and all the ones we've forgotten."-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
"In a house full of children, there are always bangs, clatters, shrieks of delight and dismay. Just because the kids here are dead doesn't make them an exception."-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
"I lay a dress on the white sheets, and see the monster nod his approval. A girl who intends to run doesn't bring a wardrobe with her. (But a girl who intends to fight does.)"-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
15. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
16. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
17. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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- audiobook
18. White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
By: Regina Jackson
4.48
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. We Are Mermaids: Poems
By: Stephanie Burt
3.65
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Effusive new poems by Stephanie Burt, “perhaps our greatest poet of having yet more to say” ( Bosto… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
20. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
By: Andrea Gibson
4.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"There will be music for you one day."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
21. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.86
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that’s the thing. To ma…"-Barbara Kingsolver, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
22. The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems
By: Threa Almontaser
4.22
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Harryette MullenBy t… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
23. We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems
By: William Evans
4.13
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Probl… read more
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- african american
- audiobook
24. 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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- poetry
- african american
- nonfiction
25. I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Tiana Clark
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be j… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- african american
"You have to make love to the damage in your mind."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
"Something in your past wants to be touched, healed."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
"This is the restless cardboard box I carry from room to room, house to house filled with papers I do not know how to sort. How do you separate trash from trash? Everything looks like something else-s…"-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
26. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
By: Victoria Chang
4.50
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. For … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers."-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become …"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"What's the rush?", you said about publishing. I added: "Does the world need another competent book of poems?" Most times, we wouldn't answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew t…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother's face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
27. I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month)
By: Martina McGowan
4.33
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I am The Rage is a poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpo… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- african american
28. Butcher
By: Natasha T. Miller
4.16
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Butcher is a book about love & loss — about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha… read more
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- poetry
29. Every Day We Get More Illegal
By: Juan Felipe Herrera
4.05
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020! A State of the Union from the natio… read more
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- nonfiction
30. New and Selected Poems
By: Marie Howe
4.49
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An indispensable collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed … read more
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31. English as a Second Language and Other Poems
By: Jaswinder Bolina
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Warm tenderness and fiery critique sit side-by-side in Bolina’s English as A Second Language , a co… read more
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- poetry
