How to Cure a Ghost: Poems
By: Fariha Róisín
3.58
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion …
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1. Blue Iris: Poems and Essays
By: Mary Oliver
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
A rich collection of ten poems, two essays, and two dozen of Mary Oliver's classic works on flowers… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
2. Faithful and Virtuous Night
By: Louise Glück
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more
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- poetry
3. 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
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
4. literally show me a healthy person
By: Darcie Wilder
3.48
Format: 93 pages,
Darcie Wilder's literally show me a healthy personis a careful confession soaking in saltwater, a s… read more
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- contemporary
- poetry
- feminism
- mental health
5. Electric Arches
By: Eve L. Ewing
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visua… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- race
6. Mortal Trash: Poems
By: Kim Addonizio
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trashtransports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desi… read more
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- poetry
7. There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other Lessons
By: Yumi Sakugawa
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Take a Moment and Breathe! In There Is No Right Way to Meditate, award-winning artist Yumi Sakugawa… read more
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8. The Hatred of Poetry
By: Ben Lerner
3.71
Format: 435 pages,
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wr… read more
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9. No One Belongs Here More Than You
By: Miranda July
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda Jul… read more
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10. Stag's Leap: Poems
By: Sharon Olds
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more
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11. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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12. The Lichtenberg Figures
By: Ben Lerner
4.49
Format: 563 pages, Paperback
The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence t… read more
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13. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
14. 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
- adult
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"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
15. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
16. Sea of Strangers
By: Lang Leav
3.68
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav picks up from her previous international bestselling books including… read more
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- poetry
- mental health
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
"The distance from you is measured in how far I've come."-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers
"I will celebrate this life of mine, with or without you."-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers
"love is a dormant volcano, lying in wait, biding its time."-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers
"I am already nostalgic for what we have, even with you still here."-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers
17. 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
- lgbt
- contemporary
- adult
- 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
18. 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
- race
- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
"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
19. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
20. Homie
By: Danez Smith
4.42
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"-Danez Smith, Homie
"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"-Danez Smith, Homie
21. 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
- race
- mental health
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
"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)
22. The Houseguest and Other Stories
By: Amparo Dávila
3.65
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka,… read more
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- adult
- contemporary
"The daily exercise of suffering gives one the gaze of an abandoned dog and the colour of a ghost. - Fragment of a Diary [July to August] "-Amparo Dávila, The Houseguest and Other Stories
23. Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
By: Chelsea Hodson
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshi… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I didn't keep a journal then. I was busy, or I thought I was, but mostly I thought anything important would stay with me."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I’m trying to write something so good, so pure, so perfect that I’ll never have to have children; I’ll have created something that can stand in for me, that can live on after me.."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"Money can do that if you let it--if you close your eyes and enter its dream, the one where you are well dressed, fit, successful, in love with exactly the right person. The gym I used to belong to co…"-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
24. The Undressing: Poems
By: Li-Young Lee
3.76
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated poet Li-Young Lee returns with a breathtaking new volume about the violence of desire an… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"I saw your eyes before I had eyes to see. And I've lived longing for your every look ever since. The longing entered time as this body. And the longing grew as this body wanes. That longing will outl…"-Li-Young Lee, The Undressing: Poems
"We see by the light of who we are. Look at us: You inside me inside you. We've lived inside each other from the beginning. Before the world was ever found. Before the world was found, I say, I dwelle…"-Li-Young Lee, The Undressing: Poems
"And of all the things on my mind this evening, words weigh the least, Death weighs the most, and your voice's body beneath my voice's moving hand is a green agent of freedom and order, best friend to…"-Li-Young Lee, The Undressing: Poems
25. How to Cure a Ghost: Poems
By: Fariha Róisín
3.58
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion … read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- feminism
- mental health
- religion
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
26. I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month)
By: Martina McGowan
4.33
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I am The Rage is a poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpo… read more
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- poetry
- race
- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
27. We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems
By: Jessica Care Moore
4.29
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past … read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- race
- nonfiction
28. Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)
By: Britteney Black Rose Kapri
4.44
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual fr… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
"all these poets is my sons. i create space for marginalized youth to counter the narrative being forced upon them."-Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)
29. I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
By: Michael Arceneaux
3.77
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Featured as one of Summer 2018’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, E… read more
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- race
- lgbt
- religion
- nonfiction
- queer
"She didn't want me to go to hell, but couldn't see that to not be wholly human might fit my own version of hell on earth."-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"Religion can make you suspend your better sensibilities. Its success in making the faithful fall in line, no matter how foolhearty a position appeared, was rooted in how great a role faith played in …"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"The only insight I could get from the Vatican at this point included shoe recommendations and where to buy one of those bad bitch dresses priests were required to wear while performing mass, if I eve…"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"I couldn't make someone love me. I couldn't make myself desirable to someone who didn't want me. I couldn't compel someone to see me in the same way in which I wanted to be seen. All I could do was b…"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
30. Exes & Foes
By: Amanda Woody
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
When two ex-best friends decide to hold a competition for the new girl's heart, they don't expect t… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- lgbt
31. Gigglepuss (Essential Poets series)
By: Carlie Blume
3.93
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
Exposing and reworking the dark corners of past traumas. Gigglepuss delves into a past pock marked … read more
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- poetry
