Junk
By: Tommy Pico
4.30
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
An NPR Best Book of the Year From 2018 Whiting Award winner Tommy Pico, Junk is a book-length brea…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I thot falling in love was a burden A kind of crowding on my landscape Love creates space, dummy Doesn’t take it up"-Tommy Pico, Junk
"I thot falling in love was a burden A kind of crowding on my landscape Love creates space, dummy Doesn’t take it up"-Tommy Pico, Junk
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1. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)
By: Margaret Killjoy
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition
Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues … read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Always afraid, never a coward"-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)
"On a whim, I went with him. I could always stab him if he tried anything, after all."-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)
"I believe in a messy, imperfect world where we just, collectively or individually, figure things out."-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)
"I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that."-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)
2. Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone
By: Phaedra Patrick
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Phaedra Patrick's debut novel, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, was hailed as "poignant" and "u… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"When did he ever do something on the spur of the moment? He'd spent all his life focusing on something in the future, trying to attain it... He never thought about anything in the here and now, and e…"-Phaedra Patrick, Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone
3. 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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- contemporary
- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
4. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
By: Saul D. Alinsky
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicalsis Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals … read more
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5. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
By: José Esteban Muñoz
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
6. 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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7. Black Movie
By: Danez Smith
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Poetry. African American Studies. These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac bi… read more
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8. 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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9. Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
By: Joseph Osmundson
3.83
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Named a Most Anticipated Book of … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
10. 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
"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
11. 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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- poetry
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
12. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
By: Paul Tran
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more
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- poetry
- gay
- lgbt
- contemporary
- queer
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
13. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)
By: Rio Cortez
4.02
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more
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- poetry
14. 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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- contemporary
- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"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
15. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
16. 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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- poetry
- lgbt
- native american
- indigenous
- queer
"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
17. 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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- poetry
- contemporary
18. Junk
By: Tommy Pico
4.30
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
An NPR Best Book of the Year From 2018 Whiting Award winner Tommy Pico, Junk is a book-length brea… read more
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- poetry
- gay
- lgbt
- poetry plays
- native american
- indigenous
- post colonial
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I thot falling in love was a burden A kind of crowding on my landscape Love creates space, dummy Doesn’t take it up"-Tommy Pico, Junk
19. Field Study
By: Chet'la Sebree
4.30
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets Layered, complex,… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
"If it weren't for ruins, I wouldn't be writing."-Chet'la Sebree, Field Study
20. Invasive species
By: Marwa Helal
4.37
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
In Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humani… read more
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- poetry
21. The Best American Poetry 2024 (The Best American Poetry series)
By: David Lehman
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Renowned poet Mary Jo Salter, whose command of verse forms and high intelligence is universally ack… read more
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- poetry
