Museum of the Americas (Penguin Poets)
By: J. Michael Martinez
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The poems in J. Michael Martinez’s third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body …
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1. the black maria (American Poets Continuum)
By: Aracelis Girmay
4.38
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Praise for Aracelis "[Girmay's] every loss—she calls them estrangements—is a yearning for connect… read more
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- poetry
- history
- contemporary
2. Each and Her (Camino del Sol)
By: Valerie Martinez
4.35
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 2004 twenty-eight women and young girls were murdered in Ciudad Juárez and the surrounding areas… read more
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3. Blood Dazzler
By: Patricia Smith
4.42
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-bl… read more
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- history
4. Look
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.16
Format: 84 pages,
*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more
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5. Signs Preceding the End of the World
By: Yuri Herrera , Lisa Dillman
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as the… read more
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- literary fiction
- contemporary
6. King Me
By: Roger Reeves
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
From a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced fami… read more
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7. Pocho
By: None , José Antonio Villarreal
3.81
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
Villarreal illuminates here the world of "pochos," Americans whose parents come to the United State… read more
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8. Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri
By: Tezer Özlü
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Tezer Ozlu'nun bu ilk romani, yasamin yalnizca baslangicini olusturmakla kalmayan, surekli donulen,… read more
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- literary fiction
9. Trophic Cascade
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and power read more
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10. Changing Planes
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Eric Beddows
5.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Sita Dulip has missed her flight. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport,… read more
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11. 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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12. Simple Passion
By: Annie Ernaux
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more
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- literary fiction
- contemporary
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
13. The Young Man
By: Annie Ernaux
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more
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- contemporary
14. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
15. Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
4.06
Format: None pages, None
No publication details yet read more
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- contemporary
16. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
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- contemporary
17. Bluest Nude: Poems
By: Ama Codjoe
4.48
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated de… read more
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18. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- contemporary
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
19. 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
- contemporary
20. 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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21. Burying the Mountain
By: Shangyang Fang
4.18
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult… read more
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22. Floaters: Poems
By: Martín Espada
4.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. … read more
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23. Museum of the Americas (Penguin Poets)
By: J. Michael Martinez
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The poems in J. Michael Martinez’s third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body … read more
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- literary fiction
- history
- contemporary
24. Shrapnel Maps
By: Philip Metres
4.48
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres' fourth … read more
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25. Maria, Maria and Other Stories
By: Marytza K. Rubio
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.” Set against… read more
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- literary fiction
26. West: A Translation
By: Paisley Rekdal
4.46
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
National Book Award 2023, Longlist Punctuated by historical images and told through multiple voices… read more
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- history
27. Candelaria
By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Your granddaughters are lost, Candelaria. Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life… read more
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- contemporary
28. Lima :: Limón
By: Natalie Scenters-Zapico
4.37
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on … read more
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- contemporary
"ভালো কঙ্কাল জীবন অনেক ছোটো, আর আমি তা দেশের মেয়েদের বলি । জীবন অনেক ছোটো, আর আমি ওদের দেখাই কেমন করে কথা বলতে হয় দরোজা না খুলে পুলিশের সঙ্গে, কেমন করে সোশাল সিকিউরিটি নম্বর ফাঁকা রাখতে হবে পরীক্ষার খাতায়…"-Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón
"মেহিকো-মার্কিন কবি নাটালি সেন্টার্স-জাপিকো-র কবিতা অনুবাদ : মলয় রায়চৌধুরী যুবকটার হাঁ-মুখের বাতিক আছে ও নিজেকে সামলাতে পারে না, মরা ফুলগুলোকে, ছেঁটেফেলা নখ, বাসি আটার বস্তা নিজের মুখে ঢোকায় । ও থামতে পার…"-Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón
"तुम एक अंधेरे शरीर हो पानी के तल में पानी दिखाई नहीं दे रहा है आप से आप पानी के एकमात्र अंधेरे शरीर हैं रेगिस्तान में हर जगह खूनी कैक्टस फैल गया। आपकी हड्डी की हड्डी के पास एक संकीर्ण खड्ड है एक बाल पर बंधे…"-Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón
"তুমি এক অন্ধকার দেহ জলের যাতে তলদেশের পাথর দেখা যাচ্ছে না তোমার ওপর থেকে । তুমি কেবল জলের একমাত্র অন্ধকার দেহ মরুভূমিতে যেখানে চারিদিকে ছড়িয়ে রয়েছে রক্তাক্ত ক্যাকটাস । তোমার কন্ঠের হাড়ের কাছে তুমি বইছ একটা স…"-Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón
29. Decade of the Brain
By: Janine Joseph
3.88
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
In the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American ci… read more
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30. You Ask Me To Talk About The Interior
By: Carolina Ebeid
4.59
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
Poetry. YOU ASK ME TO TALK ABOUT THE INTERIOR emerges out of the ontological shock and double- bind… read more
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31. Heart like a Window, Mouth like a Cliff
By: Sara Borjas
4.47
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Heart Like a Window, Mouth like a Cliff is a transgressive, yet surprisingly tender confrontation o… read more
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