I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Tiana Clark
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be j…
Want to Read $ 9.99"You have to make love to the damage in your mind."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
"You have to make love to the damage in your mind."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
"Something in your past wants to be touched, healed."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
"Something in your past wants to be touched, healed."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
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1. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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- poetry
- race
- school
- nonfiction
- african american
"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
2. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
By: bell hooks
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's lea… read more
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- poetry
- race
- feminism
- nonfiction
- african american
"When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience."-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
"sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilde…"-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
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
- race
- nonfiction
- contemporary
4. The Trouble With Poetry - And Other Poems
By: Billy Collins
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins.With his distinct voice … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
5. 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
- race
- contemporary
6. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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7. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
8. 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
- race
- african american
- contemporary
"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
9. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- poetry
- race
- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
10. 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
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"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
11. 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
- race
- contemporary
"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
12. Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
By: Ada Calhoun
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A staggering memoir from New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relation… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
13. 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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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"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)
14. 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
- race
- nonfiction
- african american
"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
15. Goldenrod: Poems
By: Maggie Smith
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
16. 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
- contemporary
17. The Renunciations: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
4.29
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
18. 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
- contemporary
"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
19. 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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- poetry
- feminism
- race
- 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
20. 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
- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
21. 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
22. 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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- poetry
- african american
- nonfiction
- race
23. 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
- contemporary
"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
24. Magical Negro
By: Morgan Parker
4.31
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnog… read more
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- poetry
- race
- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- african american
25. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- african american
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
26. Ghost Of
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.36
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- school
- contemporary
27. Guillotine: Poems
By: Eduardo C. Corral
4.34
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- school
28. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
29. I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Tiana Clark
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be j… read more
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- poetry
- race
- school
- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- african american
"You have to make love to the damage in your mind."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
"Something in your past wants to be touched, healed."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
"This is the restless cardboard box I carry from room to room, house to house filled with papers I do not know how to sort. How do you separate trash from trash? Everything looks like something else-s…"-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
30. Bluff: Poems
By: Danez Smith
4.53
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
31. Sonnets for a Missing Key: And Some Others
By: Percival Everett
3.82
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
These sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin. Do keys matter? Do they speak to differen… read more
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- poetry
