Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
By: Lars Horn
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lars Horn’s Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Where did they go, all the gods and the beasts? The jackals and winged horses, sphinxes and fish, all those creatures that weighed our organs in the afterlife, fed on years ill-lived? What do they tow now, those creatures that carried the suns and the stars, drew the moon to its place in the firmament each night?"-Lars Horn, Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
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1. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
2. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
By: David Wojnarowicz
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more
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- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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- poetry
- transgender
- gay
- lgbt
- queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
4. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
5. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
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- essays
- queer
6. Calamities
By: Renee Gladman
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems … read more
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7. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- science
- memoir
- lgbt
- animals
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
8. 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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- poetry
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"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
9. 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
- nonfiction
"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
10. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
11. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
By: T Kira Madden
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age … read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"If there are real men, I haven't met them yet."-T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
12. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
13. Walking Practice
By: Dolki Min
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"-Dolki Min, Walking Practice
14. Customs: Poems
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
15. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
16. Confessions of the Fox
By: Jordy Rosenberg
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the lif… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
17. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
By: Amanda Leduc
4.09
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
18. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
19. Ordinary Girls
By: Jaquira Díaz
4.03
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Jul… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
"I was there a couple of years ago. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I hadn't been there in a very long time, because everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out knows that yo…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"Every time I leave Miami, I tell myself I'm never coming back, only to end up right back where I started. I leave and come back again and again. Miami, like my family, is a place you learn to love an…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"All these years later, I'll be back on that dance floor. I will be swaying and the music will fill me and I will be a girl again. My friends will be there, and we'll dance all night, one song after a…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
20. The Trinity of Fundamentals
By: Wisam Rafeedie
4.62
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, the Palestinian Youth Movement’s (PYM) Popular Unive… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
By: Lars Horn
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lars Horn’s Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven … read more
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- poetry
- science
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- transgender
- animals
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"Where did they go, all the gods and the beasts? The jackals and winged horses, sphinxes and fish, all those creatures that weighed our organs in the afterlife, fed on years ill-lived? What do they to…"-Lars Horn, Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
