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…
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1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- queer
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
2. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- queer
3. What the Living Do: Poems
By: Marie Howe
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more
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- queer
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4. Bone
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the… read more
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5. 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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6. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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7. Black Girl You Are Atlas
By: Renée Watson
4.61
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In thi… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
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8. 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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- audiobook
"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
9. 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
- nonfiction
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"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
10. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
By: Paul Tran
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more
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- poetry
- transgender
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- nonfiction
- contemporary
- queer
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
11. bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Sam Sax
4.18
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Sam Sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begi… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
12. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
13. The Renunciations: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
4.29
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
14. Besaydoo: Poems (Jake Adam York Prize)
By: Yalie Kamara
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
16. Judas Goat: Poems
By: Gabrielle Bates
4.21
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more
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17. Soft Science
By: Franny Choi
3.93
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more
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- contemporary
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"having been hurt before"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"fiended; fell for another"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"it's too late to stop smiling."-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
18. it was never going to be okay
By: jaye simpson
4.35
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"Sovereignty, vulnerability, honesty." — Ms. Magazine it was never going to be okay is a collection… read more
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- poetry
- transgender
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
19. Brute: Poems
By: Emily Skaja
4.03
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more
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- contemporary
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"unfull but full of loathing"-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"I know what to do with the dark."-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
20. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"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
21. This Wound Is a World
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.49
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
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". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
22. Rose Quartz: Poems
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.17
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing—and a s… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"keep this / with you / it is part / of your story / sometimes / to remember / a wound / is the way / of healing"-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems
"How is it I have never dated / someone who is also Coast Salish / or at least Indigenous / instead it's Disney's Pocahontas / her animated dad with his hands up / these white men are dangerous / and …"-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems
23. Deluge
By: Leila Chatti
4.55
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this … read more
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- poetry
- disability
24. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
25. 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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- contemporary
- poetry
- nonfiction
- mental health
26. Content Warning: Everything
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.94
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more
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- poetry
- transgender
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- queer
27. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"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
28. feeld
By: Jos Charles
4.17
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles’s revolutionary… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
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29. 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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- mental health
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- disability
- queer
30. Odes to Lithium
By: Shira Erlichman
4.36
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable debut, Shira Erlichman pens a love letter to Lithium, her medication for Bipolar… read more
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- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
- queer
31. 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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