How to Communicate: Poems
By: John Lee Clark
4.14
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry A stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBl…
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1. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
By: Toni Morrison
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more
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- nonfiction
"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
2. 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
3. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
By: bell hooks
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory:… read more
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4. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
5. 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
- memoir
"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
6. 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
7. Girls That Never Die: Poems
By: Safia Elhillo
4.30
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems
8. 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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9. From From: Poems
By: Monica Youn
4.18
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
10. Huda F Cares?
By: Huda Fahmy
4.21
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Dis… read more
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"Y'know, you catch more flies with honey..." "I don't know why people say that. You can catch flies with garbage too."-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?
"We don't know they're friends. They could be brother and sister." "Impossible. They're smiling." "You're right. They're definitely not related."-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?
11. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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- poetry
12. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
13. Trace Evidence: Poems
By: Charif Shanahan
3.95
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more
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- poetry
14. Mothman Apologia
By: Robert Wood Lynn
4.52
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and comi… read more
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- poetry
15. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- poetry
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
16. Pig: Poems
By: Sam Sax
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more
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17. suddenly we
By: Evie Shockley
4.34
Format: 112 pages, Audiobook
Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious "we"In her new poet… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Poukahangatus: Poems
By: Tayi Tibble
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1)
By: Nora Dåsnes
4.34
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
In this fresh, sensitive, diary-style graphic novel, 12-year-old Tuva's questions about becoming a … read more
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20. Theophanies
By: Sarah Ghazal Ali
4.46
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more
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21. 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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22. To 2040
By: Jorie Graham
4.07
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single wor… read more
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23. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
24. Tripas: Poems
By: Brandon Som
3.95
Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poet… read more
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- nonfiction
25. With My Back to the World: Poems
By: Victoria Chang
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more
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26. The Blue Mimes: Poems
By: Sara Daniele Rivera
4.21
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Sara Daniele Rivera’s award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastr… read more
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- nonfiction
27. How to Communicate: Poems
By: John Lee Clark
4.14
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry A stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBl… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability
28. Diaries of a Terrorist
By: Christopher Soto
4.35
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
This debut poetry collection demands the abolition of policing and human caging. In Diaries of a Te… read more
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29. From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]
By: Craig Santos Pérez
4.42
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Experimental and visual poems diving into the history and culture of the poet’s homeland, Guam. … read more
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- nonfiction
30. Things I Didn't Do with This Body (The Lannan Literary Selections)
By: Amanda Gunn
4.31
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Told in six parts, Things I Didn’t Do with This Body sings in myriad voices and forms—ragged column… read more
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31. Path of Totality: Poems
By: Niina Pollari
4.48
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Exploring the sudden loss of her child, the hope that precedes this crisis, and the suffering that … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
