I Will Destroy You: Poems
By: Nick Flynn
3.87
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The newest collection from Nick Flynn, whose “songs of experience hum with immediacy” (The New York…
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1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more
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"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
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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3. What the Living Do: Poems
By: Marie Howe
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more
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4. Horoscopes for the Dead
By: Billy Collins
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
WINNER--BEST POETRY--GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK/T… read more
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5. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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6. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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7. Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
By: Mary Oliver
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of p… read more
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8. Autopsy
By: None
4.02
Format: 982 pages,
Written after the death of his mother, Donte Collins's Autopsy establishes the poet as one of the m… read more
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9. The Spectral Wilderness
By: Oliver Baez Bendorf
3.96
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
It's a joy. . .to come nearer to a realm of experience little explored in American poetry, the live… read more
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10. War of the Foxes
By: Richard Siken
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more
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11. 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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12. 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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"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
13. 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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"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
14. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
By: Paul Tran
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more
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"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
15. bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Sam Sax
4.18
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Sam Sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begi… read more
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16. Woman Without Shame: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more
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17. Dispatch: Poems
By: Cameron Awkward-Rich
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Set against the media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, Dispatch attends to… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
By: Joy Harjo
4.34
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more
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"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
21. Brute: Poems
By: Emily Skaja
4.03
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more
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"unfull but full of loathing"-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"I know what to do with the dark."-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
22. Turn Up the Ocean: Poems
By: Tony Hoagland
4.31
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The final book of poems by Tony Hoagland, “one of the most distinctive voices of our time” (Carl De… read more
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23. Deluge
By: Leila Chatti
4.55
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this … read more
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24. DMZ Colony
By: Don Mee Choi
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of… read more
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"It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving. So it's most likely that the decision, seemingly all mine, was already made years …"-Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony
25. I Will Destroy You: Poems
By: Nick Flynn
3.87
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The newest collection from Nick Flynn, whose “songs of experience hum with immediacy” (The New York… read more
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26. Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
By: Nikki Giovanni
4.20
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collect… read more
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27. Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco
By: K. Iver
4.59
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr P… read more
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28. A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems
By: Mary Jo Bang
3.80
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked… read more
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29. 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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30. Mummy Eaters (African Poetry Book)
By: Sherry Shenoda
4.42
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Sherry Shenoda’s collection Mummy Eater… read more
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31. Library of Small Catastrophes
By: Alison C. Rollins
4.14
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins’ ambitious debut collection, interrogates the body an… read more
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