Letters From Medea
By: Salma Deera
3.85
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems that reincarnates one of the most wicked women in classical literature into t…
Want to Read"love is just a synonym for absinthe. absinthe is a synonym for 'i don't know what i'm doing anymore."-Salma Deera, Letters From Medea
"love is just a synonym for absinthe. absinthe is a synonym for 'i don't know what i'm doing anymore."-Salma Deera, Letters From Medea
"Call me by a man’s name instead of a woman’s, and suddenly every horrific thing I’ve done makes me a hero."-Salma Deera, Letters From Medea
"Call me by a man’s name instead of a woman’s, and suddenly every horrific thing I’ve done makes me a hero."-Salma Deera, Letters From Medea
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1. Serious Concerns
By: Wendy Cope
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- womens
"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
2. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
By: Warsan Shire
4.25
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- womens
"Her body is one long sigh."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
3. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- womens
- fiction
"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
4. In the Country of Men
By: شبنم سمیعیان , Hisham Matar
3.87
Format: 411 pages,
In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the effects of Libyan stro… read more
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- fiction
5. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more
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- love
6. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- romance
- poetry
- fiction
7. Crave
By: Sarah Kane
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Cravecharts the disintegration of a hum… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
8. Poesía completa
By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu
2.74
Format: None pages,
Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more
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- poetry
- womens
9. What We Buried
By: Caitlyn Siehl
3.43
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
This book is a cemetery of truths buried alive. The light draws you in where you will find Caitlyn … read more
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10. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more
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11. Felicity
By: Mary Oliver
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more
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12. War of the Foxes
By: Richard Siken
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more
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13. 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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16. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
By: Andrea Gibson
4.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
"There will be music for you one day."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
17. Honeybee
By: Trista Mateer
3.85
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer "expertly exposes the intensity of first love" in… read more
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- romance
- poetry
"I still wake up with things to tell you."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
"Walking away from you feels like not taking care of myself."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
"I Have A Postcard Mouth All it ever says is: wish you were here."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
"I still have a lot of growing to do and I know there is more room for it in your absence."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
18. 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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- poetry
- feminism
19. We Contain Multitudes
By: Sarah Henstra
3.73
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilara… read more
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- romance
- fiction
"How is anybody supposed to hide happiness like this?"-Sarah Henstra, We Contain Multitudes
"It wasn’t just the heat of the moment. Ask me for anything. The answer is yes."-Sarah Henstra, We Contain Multitudes
"It’s an amazing phenomenon: Every time I reread your letter that says “Ask me for anything,"-Sarah Henstra, We Contain Multitudes
"Adam," my brother said, "let's not be the type of people who are afraid to live because we might die."-Sarah Henstra, We Contain Multitudes
20. Poemas de amor
By: Idea Vilariño
4.38
Format: 71 pages, Paperback
Poesía para viajar hacia adentro, y hacia el dolor. Conviene detenerse en ese poema para contemplar… read more
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- poetry
- womens
21. Ya no será
By: Idea Vilariño
4.45
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
Colección Poesía Portátil read more
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- poetry
"Inútil decir más. Nombrar alcanza."-Idea Vilariño, Ya no será
"Nunca sabrás quién fui por qué me amaron otros"-Idea Vilariño, Ya no será
"Da hasta miedo seguir, si con tan pocos años pesa tanto la vida."-Idea Vilariño, Ya no será
"La angustia ha devenido apenas un sabor, el dolor ya no cabe, la tristeza no alcanza."-Idea Vilariño, Ya no será
