Winter Stranger: Poems (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize)
By: Jackson Holbert
4.22
Format: 77 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert’s Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addic…
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1. The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
By: Dean Young
4.13
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
In The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young's sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, im… read more
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- poetry
"Desire is perpetual transformation."-Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
"Our poems are what the gods couldn’t make without going through us."-Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
"What tame, memory-dependent work I was doing. How polite my poems were, how still they sat, how representational. We poets talked about craft, but what we meant were tricks and illusions."-Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
"Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as …"-Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
2. Antwerp
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
As Bolano's friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarria, once suggested, Antwerpcan be viewed … read more
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3. Nature Poem
By: Tommy Pico
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more
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4. First Love
By: Gwendoline Riley
4.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
From "one of Britain's most original young writers" (The Observer), a blistering account of a marri… read more
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5. The Country Between Us
By: Carolyn Forché
4.67
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The book opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where Forche worked as a journalist and wa… read more
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6. 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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7. Native Guard
By: Natasha Trethewey
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethe… read more
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8. 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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"…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
9. Rose
By: Li-Young Lee , Gerald Stern
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this outstanding first book of poems, Lee is unafraid to show emotion, especially when writing a… read more
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10. 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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11. Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems
By: Patrick Phillips
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
The poet Patrick Phillips brings us a stunning third collection that is at its core a son's lament … read more
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12. 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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13. 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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"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
14. 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
15. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
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16. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
17. 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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"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
18. 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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19. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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20. How to Stand Up to a Dictator
By: Maria Ressa
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. Bu… read more
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21. Tap Out: Poems
By: Edgar Kunz
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Charts the gritty, physical terrain of blue-collar masculinity." ― New York Times New & Noteworth… read more
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"… and the afternoon stretching on into no kind of heaven I could have understood then."-Edgar Kunz, Tap Out: Poems
22. Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
By: Aria Aber
4.50
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documenta… read more
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"And I cannot see / their faces, who is foreign, who native."-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
"I feed her a spoonful of glass. By morning, she will be a window."-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
"Ich. Ich: far from Auge, the eye. Sounds like licht, which is light, or dicht, which is dense - I, the dense light of my eyeball that strives to look forward only."-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
23. 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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24. 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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"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
25. Autobiography of Death
By: Kim Hyesoon
4.08
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nin… read more
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26. 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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27. Winter Stranger: Poems (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize)
By: Jackson Holbert
4.22
Format: 77 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert’s Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addic… read more
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28. Human Resources
By: Ryann Stevenson
3.74
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Ryann Stevenson’s Human Resources is a sobering and perceptiv… read more
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29. Public Abstract
By: Jane Huffman
4.57
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and selected by judge Dana Levin, Public Abstract… read more
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30. a Year & other poems
By: Jos Charles
3.42
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recou… read more
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31. Bad Hobby: Poems
By: Kathy Fagan
4.30
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby , a perceptive collection focused on… read more
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