Two Brown Dots
By: Danni Quintos
4.34
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Danni Quintos c…
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1. The Halloween Tree
By: Ray Bradbury
3.78
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
A fast-moving, eerie tale set on Halloween night... Eight costumed boys running to meet their fr… read more
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"Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"Night and day. Summer and winter, boys. Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's what Halloween is, all rolled up in one."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over; and joyful bees swarmed countrysides to sting maiden ladies."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
2. Cannibal (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.19
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair’… read more
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- poetry
"The word “cannibal,"-Safiya Sinclair, Cannibal (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
"The word "cannibal," the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and …"-Safiya Sinclair, Cannibal (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
3. Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
"What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in t… read more
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- poetry
4. Requiem for the Orchard
By: Oliver de la Paz
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
"These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel / was the t… read more
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6. The Woman Warrior
By: Maxine Hong Kingston
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California ch… read more
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7. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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8. The City in Which I Love You
By: Li-Young Lee
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Contents I. Furious Versionis II. The Interrogation This Hour And What Is Dead Arise, Go Down My Fa… read more
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9. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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- poetry
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
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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"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. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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12. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
13. Deluge
By: Leila Chatti
4.55
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this … read more
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14. 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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15. An African American and Latinx History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
By: Paul Ortiz
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights S… read more
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16. Don't Call Me a Hurricane
By: Ellen Hagan
3.58
Format: None pages, None
An affecting and resonant YA novel in verse that explores family, community, the changing ocean tid… read more
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17. Two Brown Dots
By: Danni Quintos
4.34
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Danni Quintos c… read more
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18. Useful Junk
By: Erika Meitner
4.27
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
In her previous five collections of poems, Erika Meitner has established herself as one of America’… read more
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19. Casual Conversation
By: Renia White
4.15
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
A Blessing the Boats Selection with a Foreword by Aracelis Girmay, Renia White’s debut poetry colle… read more
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20. Calexit
By: Matt Pizzolo
3.46
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
What if a fascist, autocratic President took over the United States? And what if that President los… read more
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21. Field Notes from the Flood Zone
By: Heather Sellers
4.10
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Drawn from daily observations, Heather Sellers's poems ponder the changing Florida Coast as the pop… read more
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