Curb
By: Divya Victor
4.37
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Curb maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unackno…
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1. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
By: Samuel R. Delany
4.18
Format: 203 pages, Paperback
If one street in America can claim to be the most infamous, it is surely 42nd Street. Between Seven… read more
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"A glib wisdom holds that people like this just don’t want relationships. They have “problems with intimacy."-Samuel R. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
"In order to dismantle such a discourse we must begin with the realization that desire is never “outside all social constraint."-Samuel R. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
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
- nonfiction
3. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.10
Format: 264 pages,
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
6. The Street
By: Ann Petry
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Streettells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and … read more
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7. 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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- nonfiction
8. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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- poetry
9. Alphabet
By: Inger Christensen , Susanna Nied
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's transl… read more
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10. Zong!
By: Marlene NourbeSe Philip , Setaey Adamu Boateng
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by… read more
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11. When the Emperor Was Divine
By: Julie Otsuka
3.29
Format: None pages,
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any… read more
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12. Dictee
By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more
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13. Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline… read more
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14. 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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- poetry
15. An American Sunrise
By: Joy Harjo
4.28
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more
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- nonfiction
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
16. 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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"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
17. 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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"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
18. The Spear Cuts Through Water
By: Simon Jimenez
4.19
Format: 525 pages, Hardcover
Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal fa… read more
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"There is no correct way to shake hands with pain."-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water
"They fought because it was the easiest language they spoke."-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water
"I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world."-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water
"But the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted and Keema was repulsed."-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water
19. Homie
By: Danez Smith
4.42
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more
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- nonfiction
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"-Danez Smith, Homie
"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"-Danez Smith, Homie
20. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family
By: Susan Jonusas
3.45
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more
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- nonfiction
21. 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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"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
22. 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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- nonfiction
23. 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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- nonfiction
24. 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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25. Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 62)
By: Tongo Eisen-Martin
4.38
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry - Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Allian… read more
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26. Curb
By: Divya Victor
4.37
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Curb maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unackno… read more
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27. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
By: C.A. Conrad
4.40
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Following their book AMANDA Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Priz… read more
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- poetry
28. New Life
By: Ana Bozicevic
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her latest book, New Life , Lambda Award–winning poet Ana Božičević writes, “For my birthday I … read more
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29. The Big Melt
By: Emily Riddle
4.57
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Big Melt is a debut poetry collection rooted in nehiyaw thought and urban millennial life event… read more
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30. A Feeling Called Heaven
By: Joey Yearous-Algozin
4.14
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Adopting the role of a death doula or New Age religious leader, and drawing inspiration from the Th… read more
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31. Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border
By: Octavio Solis
4.15
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes--a memoir about growing up brown at the U.… read more
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