Swallowtail (Button Poetry)
By: Brenna Twohy
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Swallowtail: A deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors…
Want to Read $ 12.49"Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing."-Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail (Button Poetry)
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1. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
By: Mahmoud Darwish
4.37
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poe… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!"-Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
"One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions."-Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
"The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands."-Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
"So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph"-Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
2. 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
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- adult
3. Our Numbered Days
By: Neil Hilborn
4.24
Format: 212 pages,
In 2013, Neil Hilborn's performance of his poem "OCD" went viral. To date, it has been watched over… read more
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- poetry
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- adult
4. Mouthful of Forevers
By: Clementine von Radics
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Titled after the poem that burned up on Tumblr and has inspired wedding vows, paintings, songs, You… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
5. What We Buried
By: Caitlyn Siehl
3.43
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
This book is a cemetery of truths buried alive. The light draws you in where you will find Caitlyn … read more
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6. The Lives of Christopher Chant (Chrestomanci, #2)
By: Diana Wynne Jones
5.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical ab… read more
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8. Dear Self,
By: Patience Tamarra
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition
dear self, is a free-flowing collection of gentle reminders and loving affirmations centered around… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"choose you even when no one else does."-Patience Tamarra, Dear Self,
"it is safe for you to be your authentic self."-Patience Tamarra, Dear Self,
"you will fall short at times and that's okay."-Patience Tamarra, Dear Self,
"you belong in every room you walk into period."-Patience Tamarra, Dear Self,
9. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.44
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
10. Helium (Button Poetry)
By: Rudy Francisco
4.29
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by … read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- mental health
"The word “repurpose"-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"I held you the way a boat holds water."-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time"-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at."-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
11. 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
- feminism
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
"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)
12. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- poetry
- adult
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
13. 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
- adult
- nonfiction
"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
14. Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color
By: Christopher Soto
4.36
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with … read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
15. You Better Be Lightning
By: Andrea Gibson
4.63
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
16. Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction
By: Jared Singer
3.93
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
Singer’s highly anticipated debut book collects and transforms work from his ten years as a mainsta… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
17. The Future
By: Neil Hilborn
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Neil Hilborn's highly anticipated second collection of poems, The Future, invites readers to find c… read more
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- mental illness
- poetry
- nonfiction
- mental health
"When I was little I broke both my ankles jumping off a roof because I was sure a cape would enable me to fly. My parents attributed this to my strong imagination. Last year my therapist called it a d…"-Neil Hilborn, The Future
"I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave. See, when I’m up I don’t kill …"-Neil Hilborn, The Future
18. Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across
By: Mary Lambert
3.95
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked … read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
19. There Are Trans People Here
By: H. Melt
4.19
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
20. If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
By: Blythe Baird
4.36
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and tri… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- adult
"Remember: you did the best you could in the situation you were in with the materials you had."-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
"Even though trauma has a way of becoming the wallpaper of my head, watch me drag the art out of my suffering. Watch me plant seeds down my spine and bloom into a garden of poetry from every horrible …"-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
21. Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
By: Rachel Wiley
3.99
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Revenge Body is a poetry collection that explores anger (righteous and not), black identity, body i… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- mental health
"water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle"-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
22. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
By: Rudy Francisco
4.31
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- mental health
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
23. Swallowtail (Button Poetry)
By: Brenna Twohy
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Swallowtail: A deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- adult
"Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing."-Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail (Button Poetry)
24. Sweet, Young, & Worried
By: Blythe Baird
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- mental health
25. Life of the Party
By: Olivia Gatwood
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalize… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
"Some things are more a feeling than they are a memory."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"The truth is: It is a privilege to have your body looked for."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"I want to know what it means to survive something. does it just mean I get to keep my body?"-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
26. Whoever You Are, Honey
By: Olivia Gatwood
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- adult
27. Nothing Is Okay
By: Rachel Wiley
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Nothing is Okay is the second full-length collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously dec… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
28. In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive
By: Clementine von Radics
3.79
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
A lyrical poet, Clementine von Radics presents In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive, a collection o… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
"I am afraid I will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again."-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive
"There is a better version of this story where we both leave him. Instead of loving him so much it felt like church. Building a cathedral inside his crooked mouth."-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive
29. Even the Saints Audition (Button Poetry)
By: Raych Jackson
3.96
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Even The Saints Audition: A book of poems exploring the relationship between blackness, shame, and … read more
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- poetry
30. To Make Room for the Sea
By: Adam Clay
3.83
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
"That's the magic of this book--the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page." -… read more
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- poetry
31. Solve for Desire
By: Caitlin Bailey
4.17
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award A debut collection of poems that finds fertile ground in the … read more
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- poetry
