A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems
By: Emily Jungmin Yoon
4.22
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new ta…
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1. 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
- war
2. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- contemporary
3. The New Testament
By: Jericho Brown
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In The New Testament, Jericho Brown continues his tender examination of race, masculinity, and sexu… read more
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- poetry
- race
- contemporary
4. Together and By Ourselves
By: Alex Dimitrov
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry."--Los Angeles Review of Books "Truth-telling, r… read more
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5. Hold Your Own
By: Kae Tempest
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for Brand New Ancients and widely regarded as the UK's… read more
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6. Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately
By: Alicia Cook
4.21
Format: 539 pages,
In Alicia Cook's second poetic effort, designed in the style of an old mixtape, she sets her though… read more
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7. 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
- contemporary
- 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
8. An American Sunrise
By: Joy Harjo
4.28
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more
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- poetry
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
9. Planting Gardens in Graves
By: R.H. Sin
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the beloved author of Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel comes the first volume in an all new series… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
"Children who were abandoned grow up to love people who abandon them"-R.H. Sin, Planting Gardens in Graves
"you are not difficult to love your soul mate will love you with ease"-R.H. Sin, Planting Gardens in Graves
"you've seen the stains of my past and you still want to love me you've witnessed the weight of my heart and yet, you'd still like to hold it"-R.H. Sin, Planting Gardens in Graves
"here's the thing and I need you to take in every word when someone truly loves you and I'm not talking about that watered-down shit that you got from every ex who caused you nothing but a great deal …"-R.H. Sin, Planting Gardens in Graves
10. Be With
By: Forrest Gander
3.80
Format: 89 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Publisher… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"You find yourself in another world you weren’t looking for where what you see is that you have always been the wolves at the door. Left ajar, gaping, your own door."-Forrest Gander, Be With
"The break-hard determination to be a good person, what happened to that? How is it true I have to go now? She's lost my name, but the occasion of my presence begs more. Who is my mother now I am unsp…"-Forrest Gander, Be With
"At which point my grief-sounds ricocheted outside of language. Something like a drifting swarm of bees. At which point in the tetric silence that followed I was swarmed by those bees and lost conscio…"-Forrest Gander, Be With
"At which point I grew old and it was like ripping open the beehive with my hands again. At which point I conceived a realm more real than life. At which point there was at least some possibility. Som…"-Forrest Gander, Be With
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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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- contemporary
"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. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- poetry
- race
- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
13. 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
- contemporary
- asian literature
- 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
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
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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. Girls That Never Die: Poems
By: Safia Elhillo
4.30
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems
16. 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
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
17. Judas Goat: Poems
By: Gabrielle Bates
4.21
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more
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- poetry
18. Soft Science
By: Franny Choi
3.93
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more
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- asian literature
- poetry
- feminism
- contemporary
"having been hurt before"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"fiended; fell for another"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"it's too late to stop smiling."-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
19. The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems
By: Sally Wen Mao
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, “a consistently inspiring and exciting voice”… read more
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- poetry
- history
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
20. Space Struck
By: Paige Lewis
4.07
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
21. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
22. A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems
By: Emily Jungmin Yoon
4.22
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new ta… read more
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- poetry
- race
- history
- feminism
- asia
- war
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- audiobook
23. Oculus: Poems
By: Sally Wen Mao
4.18
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
A brilliant second collection by Sally Wen Mao on the violence of the spectacle—starring the film l… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- race
- nonfiction
"The sun doesn't set in Lost in Translation, but I will make sure it does here."-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems
"Where do you wander, where do you search for this petal that grows from the stone in your chest?"-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems
"Every day I try to fight my own brokenness. But once you are forgotten, it's not so bad: a heart broken joins another chorus."-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems
"Forgive me if the wind stole the howl from my mouth and whipped it against your windowpanes. When I lived, I wanted to be seen."-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems
24. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
25. Build Yourself a Boat
By: Camonghne Felix
4.07
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
2019 National Book Award Longlist A poetic exploration of trauma, healing, and survival from awa… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
26. Twenty-Ninth Year
By: Hala Alyan
3.91
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
27. We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems
By: Jessica Care Moore
4.29
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past … read more
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- poetry
- race
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
By: torrin a. greathouse
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
29. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
30. Maydan: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond
By: Rose Previte
4.09
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
The debut cookbook from Rose Previte, creator of the Michelin-starred restaurant Maydān and the bel… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Paper Girl and the Knives that Made Her
By: Ari B. Cofer
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
“I have never been anything but a paper girl. Something to tear into pieces. Something to burn.” We… read more
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- poetry
