A Treatise on Stars
By: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
3.78
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau) Winner of the Bollingen…
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1. The Orchard
By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Paperback
Richly allusive, the poems in Brigit Pegeen Kelly's The Orchard evoke elements of myth in distincti… read more
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- poetry
2. Asleep
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Michael Emmerich
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she s… read more
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3. Garments Against Women
By: Anne Boyer
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Garments Against Women is a book of mostly lyric prose about the conditions that make literature al… read more
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- poetry
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4. Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1)
By: Gavin Maxwell
3.95
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
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5. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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6. The Three-Cornered World
By: Natsume Sōseki , None
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
"An artist abandons city life to wander into the mountains to meditate, but when he decides to stay… read more
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7. The Little Edges
By: Fred Moten
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends p… read more
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8. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- 21st century
- poetry
- nonfiction
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
9. 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
10. Thrown in the Throat (National Poetry Series)
By: Benjamin Garcia
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
“Tongues make mistakes / and mistakes / make languages.” And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut… read more
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- poetry
11. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
12. Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Louise Glück
3.99
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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- 21st century
- poetry
- nonfiction
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
13. 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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14. Magnolia, 木蘭
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.08
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
"This is a book of the body and the senses, whether the million tiny nerve endings of young love; t… read more
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"Drift,"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"I want to know the names of the trees in all other languages too so that I find out what they taste like to other people. But my mouth can only hold so much."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"When reading her stories in translation it’s like trying to see her from a great distance. Or through a thick pane of glass. I am standing outside, peering into rooms where her ghost has been."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"My phone is vibrating, telling me: You have a new memory. Here is a stream of pictures collected into an album, all taken somewhere far away. Home is not a place but a string of colours threaded toge…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
15. Punks: New & Selected Poems
By: John Keene
4.26
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John … read more
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- 21st century
- poetry
- nonfiction
16. A Treatise on Stars
By: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
3.78
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau) Winner of the Bollingen… read more
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- 21st century
- poetry
- nonfiction
17. Floaters: Poems
By: Martín Espada
4.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. … read more
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18. Shifting the Silence
By: Etel Adnan
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our … read more
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- nonfiction
"Silence is the creation of space, a space that memory needs to use . . . an incubator. We're dealing here with dimensions, stretching our inner muscles, pushing aside any interference. We're dealing …"-Etel Adnan, Shifting the Silence
19. Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love
By: Keith S. Wilson
4.10
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love is a collection whose poems approach family, politics, and romance, oft… read more
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20. Rise and Float: Poems (Jake Adam York Prize)
By: Brian Tierney
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney's Rise and Float depi… read more
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21. Wobble (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Rae Armantrout
3.66
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout is at once a most intimate and coolly calculating poet. … read more
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