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1. We the Animals
By: Justin Torres
3.72
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
2. Nature Poem
By: Tommy Pico
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
3. Maud Martha
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
3.75
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poe… read more
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4. 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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- poetry
"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
5. 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
- lgbt
- queer
"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
6. 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
"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
7. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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- poetry
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
8. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
9. Customs: Poems
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more
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- poetry
10. 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
11. 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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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"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
12. Pig: Poems
By: Sam Sax
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
13. suddenly we
By: Evie Shockley
4.34
Format: 112 pages, Audiobook
Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious "we"In her new poet… read more
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- poetry
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
15. Negotiations: Poems
By: Destiny O. Birdsong
4.35
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
"Full of wonder." ―Elizabeth Acevedo A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and Entropy M… read more
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- poetry
16. Yellow Rain: Poems
By: Mai Der Vang
4.37
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FI… read more
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- poetry
17. Feast
By: Ina Cariño
4.22
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Winner of a 2022 Whiting Award in Poetry Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award At times located… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
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18. banana [ ] (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Paul Hlava Ceballos
4.63
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The poems in Paul Hlava Ceballos’s debut collection banana [ ] reveal the extractive relationship t… read more
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- poetry
19. the castration of a minor god
By: John Compton
4.78
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
In the castration of a minor god, john compton cracks open a deep, raw, inner dialogue, one that de… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
20. I'm Always so Serious
By: Karisma Price
4.31
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
" I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.” —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for … read more
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- poetry
21. Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir
By: Kawika Guillermo
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In Nimrods , Kawika Guillermo chronicles the agonizing absurdities of being a newly minted professo… read more
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