Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Aurielle Marie
4.41
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie’s stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender,…
Want to Read $ 18.00If you liked the queer plot in Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series) by Aurielle Marie , here is a list of 11 books like this:
1. Dog Songs
By: None , Mary Oliver
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in None's Dog Songs book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
2. Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997
By: June Jordan
3.77
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
With the same pithy but eloquent observations characteristic of Jordan's classic poetry collections… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in June Jordan's Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997 book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
3. Madwoman
By: Shara McCallum
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"These wonderful poems open a world of sensation and memory. But it is a world revealed by language… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Shara McCallum's Madwoman book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
4. Black Girl, Call Home
By: Jasmine Mans
4.44
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, a… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Jasmine Mans's Black Girl, Call Home book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"I know grace and mercy was raised by the same single mother."-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home
"Are women labeled crazy when you feel like their rage outweighs the evidence of their pain?"-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home
5. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
6. 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
Want to Read $ 9.49Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"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
7. 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
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Pilgrim Bell: Poems book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"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
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
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"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. Thrown in the Throat (National Poetry Series)
By: Benjamin Garcia
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
“Tongues make mistakes / and mistakes / make languages.” And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Benjamin Garcia's Thrown in the Throat (National Poetry Series) book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
10. 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
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
"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
11. 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
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Saeed Jones's Alive At The End Of The World book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"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
12. The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
By: Melinda Taub
3.81
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sparkling, witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesom… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Melinda Taub's The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
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
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Clint Smith's Above Ground book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
14. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
15. Notes from a Young Black Chef
By: Kwame Onwuachi
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A memoir from “the most important chef in America” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and chef of Tatiana,… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Kwame Onwuachi's Notes from a Young Black Chef book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
"Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Sometimes racism takes the form of ugly words and actions. Other times it remains unspoken, communicated by hostile looks and secret snickers. But the most corrosive form, and often the hardest to ad…"-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
16. Magical Negro
By: Morgan Parker
4.31
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnog… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Morgan Parker's Magical Negro book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
17. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Alice Wong's Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
18. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
19. Magdalene: Poems
By: Marie Howe
4.10
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Marie Howe's Magdalene: Poems book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing w…"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only …"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
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
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Eduardo C. Corral's Guillotine: Poems book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
21. Build Yourself a Boat
By: Camonghne Felix
4.07
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
2019 National Book Award Longlist A poetic exploration of trauma, healing, and survival from awa… read more
Want to Read $ 11.02Similar categories in Camonghne Felix's Build Yourself a Boat book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
22. I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Tiana Clark
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be j… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Tiana Clark's I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series) book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
"You have to make love to the damage in your mind."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
"Something in your past wants to be touched, healed."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
"This is the restless cardboard box I carry from room to room, house to house filled with papers I do not know how to sort. How do you separate trash from trash? Everything looks like something else-s…"-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
23. Be Recorder: Poems
By: Carmen Giménez
3.95
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Carmen Giménez Smith dares to demand renewal for a world made unrecognizable Be Recorder offers … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Carmen Giménez's Be Recorder: Poems book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
24. Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)
By: Britteney Black Rose Kapri
4.44
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual fr… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Britteney Black Rose Kapri's Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
"all these poets is my sons. i create space for marginalized youth to counter the narrative being forced upon them."-Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)
25. Finna
By: Nate Marshall
4.49
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Nate Marshall's Finna book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
26. Stereo(TYPE) (Winner of the 2017 Sawtooth Poetry Prize)
By: Jonah Mixon-Webster
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Newcomer and Sawtooth Poetry Prize winner Jonah Mixon-W… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Jonah Mixon-Webster's Stereo(TYPE) (Winner of the 2017 Sawtooth Poetry Prize) book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
27. Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Aurielle Marie
4.41
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie’s stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender,… read more
Want to Read $ 18.00Similar categories in Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series) book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
28. Freedom House
By: KB Brookins
4.53
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. … read more
Want to Read $ 8.49Similar categories in KB Brookins's Freedom House book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
29. If Men, Then: Poems
By: Eliza Griswold
3.41
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wi… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Eliza Griswold's If Men, Then: Poems book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
30. How God Ends Us
By: DeLana R.A. Dameron
4.28
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
DeLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems,… read more
Want to Read $ 17.09Similar categories in DeLana R.A. Dameron's How God Ends Us book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
31. A Sweeter Song: Catharsis: A Poetry Collection
By: Martina McGowan
3.41
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The sweetest song is one that speaks to the heart of universal human experience. FROM THE AUTHOR OF… read more
Want to Read $ 3.94Similar categories in Martina McGowan's A Sweeter Song: Catharsis: A Poetry Collection book and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)
- poetry
