feeld
By: Jos Charles
4.17
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles’s revolutionary…
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1. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
By: Mamadou Kouyaté , Djibril Tamsir Niane
3.63
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
This epic - part history, part legend - is a great adventure story. Other tellings can be found und… read more
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"The lion has walked."-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
"He was great among kings, he was peerless among men."-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
"How few things good fortune prizes!' Yes, the day you are fortunate is also the day when you are the most unfortunate, for in good fortune you cannot imagine what suffering is."-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
"We are vessels of speech, we are the repositories which harbour secrets many centuries old. The art of eloquence has no secrets for us; without us the names of kings would vanish into oblivion, we ar…"-Mamadou Kouyaté, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
2. 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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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
"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
3. 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
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
4. The Book of Frank
By: C.A. Conrad
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features addition… read more
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- poetry
- american
- queer
- lgbt
5. 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
- queer
- lgbt
6. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
7. Selected Poems
By: Mary Ruefle
4.40
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
"Mary Ruefle is one of the brilliant American poets of our time. Her work combines the spiritual de… read more
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8. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"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
9. 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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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"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
10. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
11. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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- poetry
- american
- nonfiction
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
12. Civil Service: Poems
By: Claire Schwartz
4.23
Format: 89 pages, Paperback
While the spectacle of state violence fleetingly commands a collective gaze, Civil Service turns to… read more
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- poetry
13. 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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- poetry
14. 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
15. The Wife of Willesden
By: Zadie Smith
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoff… read more
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- poetry
16. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
17. 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
- feminism
- queer
- lgbt
"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
18. 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
- queer
- lgbt
"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
19. Rupture Tense
By: Jenny Xie
3.91
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorke… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
20. feeld
By: Jos Charles
4.17
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles’s revolutionary… read more
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- poetry
- american
- transgender
- language
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
21. 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
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
