Selected Poems: In Five Sets
By: Laura Riding
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Selected Poems: In Five Sets includes sixty-one poems personally selected and arranged by the autho…
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1. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
2. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
3. Song
By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly
3.82
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent fo… read more
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4. Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
By: Robin Coste Lewis
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure through time introduces us to a… read more
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5. Magic City
By: Yusef Komunyakaa
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and… read more
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6. A Bernadette Mayer Reader
By: Bernadette Mayer
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
"What a clear, insistent health there is here--as if the so-called world were seriously the point, … read more
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7. The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
By: Mina Loy , Roger L. Conover
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Mina Loy has been perplexingly absent from British literary history. In America she has been posthu… read more
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8. Engine Empire: Poems
By: Cathy Park Hong
3.87
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Engine Empireis a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, fr… read more
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9. Sprawl
By: Danielle Dutton
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for The Believer Book Award Fiction. An absurdly comic and decidedly digressive novel, … read more
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10. Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems
By: Rosemary Tonks
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
The disappearance of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tant… read more
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11. 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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12. Tender Buttons
By: Gertrude Stein
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated… read more
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13. Sleeping With the Dictionary
By: Harryette Mullen
4.50
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspr… read more
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14. The Sonnets
By: Ted Berrigan , Alice Notley
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1964, The Sonnetsby Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most impor… read more
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15. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
16. Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
By: Hélène Cixous , Susan Sellers
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
"Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing" is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration o… read more
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17. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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18. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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19. Hello, the Roses
By: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A poet of "epic perception" and "subtle music," Mei-mei Berssenbrugge opens form into long, shimmer… read more
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20. I Love Artists
By: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this sel… read more
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21. 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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"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
22. Severance
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more
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"New York has a way of forgetting you."-Ling Ma, Severance
"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."-Ling Ma, Severance
"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."-Ling Ma, Severance
"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."-Ling Ma, Severance
23. The Baudelaire Fractal
By: Lisa Robertson
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the c… read more
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24. The Easy Life
By: Marguerite Duras
3.79
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a yo… read more
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25. Luster
By: Raven Leilani
3.52
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office,… read more
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"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"-Raven Leilani, Luster
26. Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
By: Diane Seuss
4.41
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry… read more
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27. Blood Snow
By: dg nanouk okpik
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
American Book Award–winning poet dg okpik’s second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continu… read more
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28. Selected Poems: In Five Sets
By: Laura Riding
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Selected Poems: In Five Sets includes sixty-one poems personally selected and arranged by the autho… read more
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