Lola Coqueta
By: Isabela Banzon
4.06
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
Direct rhythms, a wry yet personal approach to experience and memory, oblique with evasion, and ani…
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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. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García
4.21
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more
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"Tonight I Can Write"-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"I remembered you with my soul clenched"-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"I want to fill my mouth with your name."-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"Every day you play with the light of the universe."-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
4. Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (Swenson Poetry Award)
By: Luisa A. Igloria
4.45
Format: 70 pages, Hardcover
“When Luisa Igloria cites Epictetus―‘as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and anot… read more
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- poetry
5. Dark Hours
By: Conchitina R. Cruz
4.26
Format: 68 pages,
“At this historical moment when the issue of how to respond to suffering is so fraught as to leave … read more
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7. But for the Lovers
By: Robert Coover , Wilfrido D. Nolledo
3.91
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the 25 years since its original publication, But for the Lovers has acquired an underground repu… read more
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8. A Breath of Life
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Johnny Lorenz
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creati… read more
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- poetry
9. Night Picnic: Poems
By: Charles Simic
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
The poems in Charles Simic's new collection evoke a variety of settings and images, from New York C… read more
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11. The Private Lives of Trees
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.66
Format: 259 pages,
The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named… read more
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12. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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13. 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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14. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
15. 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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16. 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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"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
17. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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18. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich
By: Deya Muniz
4.40
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A funny, heartfelt YA romance about finding love—and lots of grilled cheese sandwiches—in the place… read more
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19. Magdalene: Poems
By: Marie Howe
4.10
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene… read more
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"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing w…"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only …"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
20. elsewhere held and lingered
By: Conchitina R. Cruz
4.52
Format: 81 pages, None
elsewhere held and lingered is Conchitina Cruz’s third book, following Disappear (High Chair, 2004)… read more
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21. Sansaglit
By: Lean Borlongan
4.38
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
Ang koleksyong ito ay pagdakila sa mga pag-ibig na nananatili sa isang distansya o panig; nagpapaal… read more
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22. Amigo Warfare
By: Eric Gamalinda
3.83
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Eric Gamalinda's Amigo Warfare is a stunning meditation on identity and the ways we connect with ou… read more
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"I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mine It will be a holiday of the senses"-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare
"Fuck words, nothing spoken comprehends the defiantly ephemeral. I take my incompleteness with the rest, an exile in any language."-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare
"I would like to write a suicide note in three and a half languages and travel south on a Thursday towards some form of life outside of earth"-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare
"My angels are jellyfish, electric, nearly invisible, armed with poisoned harpoons. My archangels are yellow tang. They feed on sunlight. They speak through color. Anything in their paths turns blind."-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare
23. Insurrecto
By: Gina Apostol
3.52
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present a… read more
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"It is their country, sergeant. You only hold the keys."-Gina Apostol, Insurrecto
24. Tonight We Slurp in Color
By: Andrea V. Tubig
4.41
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
From Tonight We Slurp in Color's cover: "Tonight We Slurp in Color delights in its desire to dis… read more
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25. Lola Coqueta
By: Isabela Banzon
4.06
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
Direct rhythms, a wry yet personal approach to experience and memory, oblique with evasion, and ani… read more
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28. La Tercera
By: Gina Apostol
3.17
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Gina Apostol’s novel pieces together a century and a half of Philippine history through the story o… read more
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"But the fact is, like my mom, most Filipinos prefer to keep history in the dark or, in these days, sold to the highest bidder. Who can blame them. It's kind of painful to remember."-Gina Apostol, La Tercera
29. Letters to a Young Brown Girl
By: Barbara Jane Reyes
4.37
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Barbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with b… read more
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30. Bago Mo Ako Ipalaot
By: Luna Sicat Cleto
3.75
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
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31. Two or Three Things About Desire (Islands or Continents)
By: Conchitina R. Cruz
4.29
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
Drawn from International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013, "Two or Three Things About Desire" is a c… read more
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