Come Closer and Listen: New Poems
By: Charles Simic
3.53
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent…
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1. The Seven Ages
By: Louise Glück
4.02
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The Seven Ages was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1999. The fierce, austerely b… read more
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- the united states of america
"I even loved a few times in my disgusting human way."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you it will not keep you alive."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"The curtains parted. Light coming in. Moonlight, then sunlight. Not changing because time was passing but because the one moment had many aspects."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?"-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
2. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor , Robert Fitzgerald
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This… read more
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"Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
3. Evidence: Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.40
Format: 74 pages, Hardcover
Never afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an image li… read more
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- poetry
"Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old. And who else could this be, who goes off down the green path, Carrying his sandals, and singing?"-Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
"Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads."-Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
"Do you think of them as decoration? Think again. Here are maples, flashing. And here are the oaks, holding on all winter to their dry leaves. And here are the pines, that will never fail, until death…"-Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
"It's more than bones. It's more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse. It's more than the beating of the single heart. It's praising. It's giving until the giving feels like receiving. You …"-Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
4. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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5. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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6. A Worldly Country
By: John Ashbery
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thrill of a Romance It's different when you have hiccups. Everything is--so many glad hands competi… read more
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7. Dog Songs
By: None , Mary Oliver
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more
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8. Felicity
By: Mary Oliver
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more
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9. Ordinary Beast
By: Nicole Sealey
4.36
Format: 39 pages, ebook
ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF … read more
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10. Los que duermen y otros relatos
By: Juan Gómez Bárcena
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Una recondita cienaga de Germania, donde los cuerpos de cientos de prisioneros sacrificados a los d… read more
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11. Insomnia: Poems
By: Linda Pastan
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
These poems chart the journeys of sleepless nights when whole lifetimes seem to pass with their sto… read more
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12. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
13. The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)
By: Amanda Lovelace
3.68
Format: 210 pages, ebook
Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the m… read more
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- poetry
"at this point, staying with you is nothing more than muscle memory."-Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)
"When our villains win, do not fret, just rewrite the story. - mother knows best II"-Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)
"becoming your own savior sometimes means knowing when you need to ask for help. - therapy session no. 1"-Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)
14. 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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"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
15. 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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"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
16. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
17. So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.17
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
"It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles … read more
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- poetry
18. And Yet: Poems
By: Kate Baer
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more
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"Let your life rest on what is already good."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
19. 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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"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
20. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- the united states of america
21. Fierce Elegy (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Peter Gizzi
4.20
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also―as it has been f… read more
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- poetry
22. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
By: Joy Harjo
4.34
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more
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"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
23. 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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24. Whale Day: And Other Poems
By: Billy Collins
4.08
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
A collection of all-new poetry from former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Billy Collins's thir… read more
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"But having sailed some time ago Into the quiet cardigan harbour of my life,"-Billy Collins, Whale Day: And Other Poems
25. 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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"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
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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27. 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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"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
28. Come Closer and Listen: New Poems
By: Charles Simic
3.53
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent… read more
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29. Today in the Taxi
By: Sean Singer
4.48
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
“Sean Singer’s radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman’s, nothing less tha… read more
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30. American Faith: Poems
By: Maya C. Popa
4.38
Format: None pages, ebook
The ultimate subject of Maya Catherine's stunning debut collection is violence. American Faith begi… read more
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31. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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