stemmy things
By: imogen xtian Smith
4.17
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy This flirty …
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1. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
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2. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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- poetry
3. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
4. Assata: An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds
4.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more
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5. Queer: A Graphic History
By: Meg-John Barker , None , Jules Scheele
0.00
Format: 287 pages,
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer th… read more
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- lgbt
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6. 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
- lgbt
- queer
7. Calamities
By: Renee Gladman
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems … read more
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8. Madness
By: Sam Sax
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Ser… read more
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9. 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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10. 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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- 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
11. 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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- lgbt
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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
12. 100 Boyfriends
By: Brontez Purnell
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"You never stop looking like art to me"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
13. Mimosa: A Graphic Novel
By: Archie Bongiovanni
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/T… read more
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- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
14. Beast at Every Threshold
By: Natalie Wee
3.74
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultura… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
15. 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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- lgbt
- queer
"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
16. 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
"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
17. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
18. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- transgender
- queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
19. 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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- lgbt
- queer
20. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
21. Having and Being Had
By: Eula Biss
3.83
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned … read more
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"Art unmakes the world made by work."-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card compan…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagi…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Some people choose their precarity - evidence that precarity is not just a condition of our time, but a response to it. The precariat includes people who have forgone stable employment and retirement…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
22. Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco
By: K. Iver
4.59
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr P… read more
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- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
23. 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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- lgbt
- transgender
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24. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By: T. Fleischmann
4.01
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more
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- lgbt
- transgender
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"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
25. Ponyboy
By: Eliot Duncan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more
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- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
26. Borealis
By: Aisha Sabatini Sloan
4.03
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
An intimate essay on the art of Alaskan glaciers, memory, loneliness, and blackness in wild spaces.… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
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27. stemmy things
By: imogen xtian Smith
4.17
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy This flirty … read more
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28. Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)
By: Britteney Black Rose Kapri
4.44
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual fr… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"all these poets is my sons. i create space for marginalized youth to counter the narrative being forced upon them."-Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)
29. The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
By: Yanyi .
4.25
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize “Weaves together descriptions of experienc… read more
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- lgbt
- transgender
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"It's not always true that when someone disappears, they never come back, even if that has been my experience."-Yanyi ., The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
"Here's what it's like if it's hard to put yourself first: you genuinely feel happiness when someone else's needs are fulfilled. At least, that is what you know as happiness: the relief of not being s…"-Yanyi ., The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
30. The Selkie
By: Morgan Võ
4.50
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The Selkie, Morgan Võ’s fascinating and highly original debut, is organized into three linked secti… read more
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31. I Belong to Nowhere
By: Kalyani Thakur Charal
3.88
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The first English-language collection from one of India’s most hard-hitting writers, these poems br… read more
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- poetry
