Speak Low
By: Carl Phillips
4.04
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive―and one of poetry's most essenti…
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. Dream Work
By: Mary Oliver
4.35
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
3. 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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- poetry
- mythology
- queer
"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
4. Touch: Poems
By: Henri Cole
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Hardcover
Henri Cole’s last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, wr… read more
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- poetry
5. Sharks in the Rivers
By: Ada Limon
3.95
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
6. Erratic Facts
By: Kay Ryan
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kay Ryan--"a classic American poet" (John Freeman)--is acclaimed for her highly intelligible, deepl… read more
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- poetry
- queer
7. Second Empire
By: Richie Hofmann
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"The delicate arc of these poems intimates--rather than tells--a love story: celebration, fear of l… read more
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- poetry
- queer
8. An Atlas of the Difficult World
By: Adrienne Rich
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshot… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
9. 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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10. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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- contemporary
"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
11. Almost Invisible: Poems
By: Mark Strand
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poem… read more
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12. Housekeeping
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more
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13. The Line of Beauty
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home… read more
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14. Midland
By: Kwame Dawes
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting Americ… read more
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15. Thrall
By: Natasha Trethewey
4.20
Format: 141 pages, Hardcover
The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by America's new Poe… read more
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16. The Cloud Corporation
By: Timothy Donnelly
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The poems of Timothy Donnelly astonish by their inventive intelligence . . . we learn that self-kn… read more
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17. Salvage the Bones
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for FictionA hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, … read more
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18. The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
By: Kay Ryan
5.00
Format: 400 pages,
Kay Ryan's recent appointment as the Library of Congress's sixteenth poet laureate is just the late… read more
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19. Lucky Wreck
By: Ada Limon
3.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. Ada Limon's fir… read more
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20. 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
- nonfiction
- queer
- contemporary
"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
21. 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
"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
22. 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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- queer
- contemporary
23. 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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- poetry
- 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
24. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
25. Against Silence: Poems
By: Frank Bidart
3.59
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and “one… read more
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- poetry
26. 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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- poetry
- queer
- contemporary
"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
27. Speak Low
By: Carl Phillips
4.04
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive―and one of poetry's most essenti… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- mythology
- queer
28. Pleasure Principle: Poems
By: Madeleine Cravens
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth. In her stunning debu… read more
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- poetry
29. Blizzard: Poems
By: Henri Cole
3.72
Format: 59 pages, Hardcover
Henri Cole, one of our greatest poets, explores the discordant nature of our condition on earth in … read more
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- poetry
30. Finalists
By: Rae Armantrout
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A double book by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout What will we call the last generatio… read more
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- poetry
31. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
