Amanda Paradise
By: C.A. Conrad
4.26
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems in…
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
By: Lorrie Moore
3.83
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America we share a grown woman… read more
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"What the fuck, babe."-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
"I feel his lack of love for me."-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
"They looked like frogs who’d been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs."-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
"It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe."-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
3. The Sluts
By: Dennis Cooper
3.79
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
4. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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- poetry
5. Jane: A Murder
By: Maggie Nelson
3.93
Format: None pages,
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered … read more
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- poetry
6. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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7. The Ginkgo Light
By: Arthur Sze
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"Classically elegant."--The New York Times Book Review Sze's free verse emphasizes at once how diff… read more
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8. Chelsea Girls
By: Eileen Myles
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more
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9. 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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11. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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12. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
13. The Eyes and the Impossible
By: Dave Eggers
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. Johanne… read more
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"What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?"-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible
"Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is th…"-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible
14. The Silence
By: Don DeLillo
2.66
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling nov… read more
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"What happens to people who live inside their phones?"-Don DeLillo, The Silence
15. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
16. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
17. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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- poetry
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
18. Kink: Stories
By: R.O. Kwon
3.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and i… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Mr. Harris kept glancing up and down Omar’s body, lingering around his chest and his groin. At first, Omar pretended not to notice. It was a compulsive kind of looking, one that cis people indulged i…"-R.O. Kwon, Kink: Stories
19. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
20. Sight Lines
By: Arthur Sze
3.85
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In his National Book Award-winning tenth collection Sight Lines, Arthur Sze lends the reader his pr… read more
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- poetry
"the world of being is like this gravel: you think you own a car, a house, this blue-zigzagged shirt, but you just borrow these things. Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams and stood at Gi…"-Arthur Sze, Sight Lines
21. 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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22. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
By: Katie Farris
4.31
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more
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23. The Book of X
By: Sarah Rose Etter
4.04
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot… read more
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24. So to Speak (Penguin Poets)
By: Terrance Hayes
4.17
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–w… read more
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25. To 2040
By: Jorie Graham
4.07
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single wor… read more
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26. Amanda Paradise
By: C.A. Conrad
4.26
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems in… read more
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27. Hoarders
By: Kate Durbin
4.28
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021 An NPR Best Book of 2021 An Electric Literature Best Poet… read more
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28. Failures of the Poets
By: Anthony Robinson
4.47
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
More than twenty years in the making, Anthony Robinson's long-awaited first book collects poems of … read more
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29. Does the Earth
By: Meg Reynolds
4.77
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Meg Reynolds is a poet, artist, and teacher from New England. As an instructor in writing and human… read more
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- school
30. I entered without words: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
By: Jody Gladding
4.54
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where language and landscape converge In… read more
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31. All This Time
By: Cedar Sigo
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The newest collection from Cedar Sigo, All This Time, pays homage to artistic influences that have … read more
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