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. …
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1. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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- the united states of america
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
2. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
By: Kiese Laymon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in Am… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Electric Arches
By: Eve L. Ewing
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visua… read more
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4. The Shadow of a Gunman
By: Seán O'Casey
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Irlanda ulusal tiyatro hareketinin oldugu kadar, Irlanda isci hareketinin de onde gelen kisilerinde… read more
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5. 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
- nonfiction
- social justice
"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
6. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
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"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
7. 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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- adult
- 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
8. 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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- adult
"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
9. 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
- the united states of america
"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
10. 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
- nonfiction
"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
11. 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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12. 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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13. The Trees Witness Everything
By: Victoria Chang
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
14. 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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- nonfiction
15. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
16. 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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17. Best Barbarian: Poems
By: Roger Reeves
4.10
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more
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- nonfiction
18. 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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- nonfiction
19. A Year of Last Things: Poems
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.61
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more
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20. Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
21. 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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- adult
- nonfiction
- the united states of america
22. 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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- nonfiction
23. 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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- the united states of america
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- social justice
- adult
24. Fixer: Poems
By: Edgar Kunz
4.20
Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edg… read more
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25. Theophanies
By: Sarah Ghazal Ali
4.46
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more
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26. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
By: Taylor Byas
4.37
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more
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- nonfiction
27. 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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- adult
- 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
28. With My Back to the World: Poems
By: Victoria Chang
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more
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29. Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118)
By: Cindy Juyoung Ok
4.37
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation “The… read more
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30. Look at This Blue
By: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
3.64
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2022 Emory Elliott Book Award Fin… read more
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31. 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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