Aster of Ceremonies: Poems (Multiverse)
By: JJJJJerome Ellis
4.25
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJ…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness
By: C.A. Conrad
3.89
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
CAConrad's ECODEVIANCE contains twenty-three new (Soma)tic writing exercises and their resulting po… read more
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3. The Address Book
By: Sophie Calle
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
"The Address Book," a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle's oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of… read more
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4. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
- queer
5. Creep: Accusations and Confessions
By: Myriam Gurba
4.37
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more
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- audiobook
- queer
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions
6. 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
"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
7. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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- audiobook
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
8. 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
"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
9. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
- 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
10. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
By: Melania Luisa Marte
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
11. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
12. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- audiobook
- queer
13. 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
"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
14. 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
15. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- poetry
16. How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
By: Jane Wong
4.21
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma a… read more
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- poetry
17. 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
- queer
18. Root Fractures: Poems
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
19. Theophanies
By: Sarah Ghazal Ali
4.46
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more
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- poetry
20. 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
- audiobook
"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
21. With My Back to the World: Poems
By: Victoria Chang
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more
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- poetry
22. A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems
By: Mary Jo Bang
3.80
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked… read more
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- poetry
23. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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24. Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry Series)
By: No‘u Revilla
4.28
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares ever… read more
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- poetry
- queer
25. Aster of Ceremonies: Poems (Multiverse)
By: JJJJJerome Ellis
4.25
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJ… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- queer
26. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
- queer
27. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By: T. Fleischmann
4.01
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more
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- poetry
- queer
"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
28. Spectral Evidence: Poems
By: Gregory Pardlo
4.11
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-win… read more
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- poetry
29. Someone Somewhere Maybe
By: Sophie Diener
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
For fans of Rupi Kaur, Cleo Wade, and Amanda Lovelace, Someone Somewhere Maybe speaks to the joys a… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
30. Side Notes from the Archivist
By: Anastacia-Reneé
4.25
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable femi… read more
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- audiobook
31. My Baby First Birthday
By: Jenny Zhang
3.93
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
My Baby First Birthday is about existence and non-existence. It’s about being born—without consent.… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"Im going to let you rant, because I’m going to die soon anyway. I’ll die hearing this and I’ll die holding it in."-Jenny Zhang, My Baby First Birthday
