West: A Translation
By: Paisley Rekdal
4.46
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
National Book Award 2023, Longlist Punctuated by historical images and told through multiple voices…
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1. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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- race
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2. Nox
By: Anne Carson
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Noxis an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and create… read more
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3. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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4. The Address Book
By: Sophie Calle
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
"The Address Book," a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle's oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of… read more
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5. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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6. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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- race
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"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
7. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- nonfiction
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
8. 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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- race
"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
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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10. 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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"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
11. 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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- american history
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- nonfiction
12. Dayswork
By: Chris Bachelder
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more
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13. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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14. 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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15. 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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- nonfiction
16. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
By: Katie Farris
4.31
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more
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17. You Better Be Lightning
By: Andrea Gibson
4.63
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more
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- nonfiction
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
18. 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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19. Information Desk: An Epic
By: Robyn Schiff
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more
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20. Guillotine: Poems
By: Eduardo C. Corral
4.34
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more
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- nonfiction
21. 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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22. 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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- nonfiction
"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
23. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
By: Taylor Byas
4.37
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more
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24. 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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25. The Diaspora Sonnets
By: Oliver de la Paz
3.94
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY For fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chan… read more
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26. 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
27. West: A Translation
By: Paisley Rekdal
4.46
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
National Book Award 2023, Longlist Punctuated by historical images and told through multiple voices… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- grad school
- nonfiction
28. The Asking: New and Selected Poems
By: Jane Hirshfield
4.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in… read more
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"Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder."-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems
"The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hand…"-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems
29. My Baby First Birthday
By: Jenny Zhang
3.93
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
My Baby First Birthday is about existence and non-existence. It’s about being born—without consent.… read more
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"Im going to let you rant, because I’m going to die soon anyway. I’ll die hearing this and I’ll die holding it in."-Jenny Zhang, My Baby First Birthday
30. You Ask Me To Talk About The Interior
By: Carolina Ebeid
4.59
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
Poetry. YOU ASK ME TO TALK ABOUT THE INTERIOR emerges out of the ontological shock and double- bind… read more
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31. Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems, A Graywolf Anthology
By: Carmen Giménez
4.26
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Raised by Wolves is a unique and vibrant gathering of poems from Graywolf Press’s fifty years. The … read more
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