Brocken Spectre
By: Jacques J. Rancourt
4.63
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Set in San Francisco, Brocken Spectre examines the way the past presses up against the present. The…
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1. Obscenely Yours
By: Angelo Nikolopoulos
4.02
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This fearless debut transcends the obscene with its self-conscious probing of sexual identity. Navi… read more
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2. The Dead Eat Everything
By: Michael Mlekoday
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
"This book is a document of a particular world, real, wrenched from the poet's life, as if written … read more
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- poetry
3. 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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- lgbt
4. King Me
By: Roger Reeves
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
From a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced fami… read more
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5. Bestiary: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological m… read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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- lgbt
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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"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 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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- lgbt
"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
12. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
13. Lie With Me
By: Philippe Besson
4.26
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more
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"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
14. A Shiver in the Leaves
By: Luther Hughes
4.44
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle's flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes' debut poetry … read more
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15. bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Sam Sax
4.18
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Sam Sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begi… read more
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- lgbt
16. 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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- lgbt
"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
17. Patron Saints of Nothing
By: Randy Ribay
4.23
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncov… read more
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"We failed him in life. We should not fail him in death."-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
"English is a language that lives in the middle of the mouth, but Tagalog is more of an open throat song that dances between the tip of the tongue and the teeth. My mouth feels too heavy, too thick, t…"-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
"But there are good things I can hold on to and there are other things I have the power to change. My family, myself, this world--al of us are flawed. But flawed doesn't mean hopeless. It doesn't mean…"-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
"Maybe he was reaching out to me through those words, and I let him slip away. I stayed silent. If I had written to him more often, been more honest, would it have helped him work through some of his …"-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
18. Meltwater: Poems
By: Claire Wahmanholm
4.45
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
A haunting collection that inhabits a disquieting future where fear is the governing body, “the org… read more
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19. A Hundred Lovers: Poems
By: Richie Hofmann
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly a… read more
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- lgbt
20. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
By: Jake Skeets
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men “only touch when they fuck in a backseat.” Its landscap… read more
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21. 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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22. Burying the Mountain
By: Shangyang Fang
4.18
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult… read more
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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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24. Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
By: Carl Phillips
3.97
Format: 58 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phi… read more
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25. Brocken Spectre
By: Jacques J. Rancourt
4.63
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Set in San Francisco, Brocken Spectre examines the way the past presses up against the present. The… read more
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26. Brother Sleep
By: Aldo Amparán
4.38
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2020 Alice James Award A Semifinalist for the 2023 Housatonic Book Award in Poetry … read more
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27. Feast
By: Ina Cariño
4.22
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Winner of a 2022 Whiting Award in Poetry Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award At times located… read more
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28. Some Are Always Hungry
By: Jihyun Yun
4.34
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family’s w… read more
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29. Good Monster
By: Diannely Antigua
4.48
Format: None pages, None
With an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body’s capacity to cage and cradl… read more
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30. The Trouble with Light
By: Jeremy Michael Clark
4.58
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
In The Trouble with Light , Jeremy Michael Clark reflects on the legacy of familial trauma as he de… read more
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31. Quiver: Poems
By: Luke Johnson
5.00
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
"Luke Johnson cements his title as the uncontested master of shadow... Quiver will change the way… read more
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