13th Balloon
By: Mark Bibbins
4.48
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In his fourth collection, 13th Balloon, Mark Bibbins turns his candid eye to the American AIDS cris…
Want to Read $ 12.99"I was clever in a severely limited sense"-Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon
"I often confuse a sense of futility with a call to action."-Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon
"Since you died the house style could best be described as leaves that cling to trees too long into winter"-Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon
"There are days when everything feels like a metaphor for your having died There are days when nothing does"-Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon
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1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more
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- poetry
- gay
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
2. Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
By: James Baldwin
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only avail… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
3. Leaving the Atocha Station
By: Ben Lerner , Alva Dahl
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship i… read more
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4. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
5. 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
6. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
7. 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
- nonfiction
- memoir
"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
8. 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
9. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
10. Bluest Nude: Poems
By: Ama Codjoe
4.48
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated de… read more
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- poetry
11. The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series)
By: David Lehman
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry , “a ‘best’ antho… read more
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- poetry
12. The Trees Witness Everything
By: Victoria Chang
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
13. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
14. Rose Quartz: Poems
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.17
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing—and a s… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"keep this / with you / it is part / of your story / sometimes / to remember / a wound / is the way / of healing"-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems
"How is it I have never dated / someone who is also Coast Salish / or at least Indigenous / instead it's Disney's Pocahontas / her animated dad with his hands up / these white men are dangerous / and …"-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems
15. Toad
By: Katherine Dunn
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A previously unpublished novel of the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman, from the… read more
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16. Rupture Tense
By: Jenny Xie
3.91
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorke… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
17. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
By: torrin a. greathouse
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
18. The Blue Mimes: Poems
By: Sara Daniele Rivera
4.21
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Sara Daniele Rivera’s award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastr… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
19. Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 170)
By: Tawanda Mulalu
3.94
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die… read more
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- poetry
20. 13th Balloon
By: Mark Bibbins
4.48
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In his fourth collection, 13th Balloon, Mark Bibbins turns his candid eye to the American AIDS cris… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Mark Bibbins's 13th Balloon book and Mark Bibbins's 13th Balloon
- poetry
- memoir
- gay
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"I was clever in a severely limited sense"-Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon
"I often confuse a sense of futility with a call to action."-Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon
"Since you died the house style could best be described as leaves that cling to trees too long into winter"-Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon
"There are days when everything feels like a metaphor for your having died There are days when nothing does"-Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon
21. Beforelight (New Poets of America, 52)
By: Matthew Gellman
4.68
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
Beforelight explores queer childhood as a site of rupture and queer coming-of-age as a process of … read more
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- poetry
