Fortunately (Button Poetry Contest Winner)
By: Nava Etshalom
3.76
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
2017 Button Poetry Prize Winner Through poems that utilize hypnotic religious imagery, Nava EtShal…
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1. 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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"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
"Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
2. When the Ghosts Come Ashore
By: Jacqui Germain
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Jacqui Germain's poems in When the Ghosts Come Ashore situate St. Louis as the archetypal American … read more
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3. Our Numbered Days
By: Neil Hilborn
4.24
Format: 212 pages,
In 2013, Neil Hilborn's performance of his poem "OCD" went viral. To date, it has been watched over… read more
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4. Still Alice
By: Lisa Genova
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset… read more
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5. Black Movie
By: Danez Smith
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Poetry. African American Studies. These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac bi… read more
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6. This Way to the Sugar
By: Hieu Minh Nguyen
3.80
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A Midwest Asian-American poet beautifully captures the queer American experience. This bruising col… read more
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7. Radio Silence
By: Alice Oseman
2.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine wit… read more
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8. 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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9. The Drift
By: C.J. Tudor
3.71
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly grippin… read more
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10. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
11. And Yet: Poems
By: Kate Baer
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more
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"Let your life rest on what is already good."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
12. Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems
By: Misha Collins
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself… read more
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"Only schizophrenics See the beauty here."-Misha Collins, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems
"I ran toward it all, thinking the destruction might purify me."-Misha Collins, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems
"Reading your note, at our table, in my voice, I heard you were ready to accept my love, Which, of course, changes everything."-Misha Collins, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems
13. Love and Other Poems
By: Alex Dimitrov
4.10
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin… read more
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14. You Better Be Lightning
By: Andrea Gibson
4.63
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more
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"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
15. If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
By: Blythe Baird
4.36
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and tri… read more
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"Remember: you did the best you could in the situation you were in with the materials you had."-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
"Even though trauma has a way of becoming the wallpaper of my head, watch me drag the art out of my suffering. Watch me plant seeds down my spine and bloom into a garden of poetry from every horrible …"-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
16. Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
By: Rachel Wiley
3.99
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Revenge Body is a poetry collection that explores anger (righteous and not), black identity, body i… read more
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"water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle"-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
17. Swallowtail (Button Poetry)
By: Brenna Twohy
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Swallowtail: A deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors… read more
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"Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing."-Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail (Button Poetry)
18. Sweet, Young, & Worried
By: Blythe Baird
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This… read more
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19. So, Stranger
By: Topaz Winters
4.26
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Topaz Winters’ third poetry collection spans three countries & three generations. In a far-reaching… read more
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"So all I remember of my ancestry is what fits on the back of a postcard."-Topaz Winters, So, Stranger
"I want to know what the world knows & I can't tell if that's because I'm a poet or because I have hands."-Topaz Winters, So, Stranger
"When I swallow the sea he wakes up gasping & I am sure of nothing except that I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm still sorry."-Topaz Winters, So, Stranger
"We didn't pray but we drank our coffee out of the same mugs every morning, which we decided was almost the same thing."-Topaz Winters, So, Stranger
20. I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems
By: Sabrina Benaim
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time, a collection exploring loneliness, anxie… read more
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21. Not Another Love Song
By: Julie Soto
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Two string players fight their attraction for each other as they compete for center stage in this s… read more
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22. Fat Girl Finishing School
By: Rachel Wiley
4.24
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
“Fat girls of the world will find their voice through Wiley’s brilliance, and we all owe her for th… read more
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23. Ephemera
By: Sierra DeMulder
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
If every experience lasted forever and the sands of time never interrupted our most loving moments,… read more
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24. Fortunately (Button Poetry Contest Winner)
By: Nava Etshalom
3.76
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
2017 Button Poetry Prize Winner Through poems that utilize hypnotic religious imagery, Nava EtShal… read more
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25. Urbanshee
By: Siaara Freeman
4.16
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Urbanshee is Siaara Freeman's retelling of fairy tales and mythological stories through a modern an… read more
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"After the funeral, I see him everywhere. Every time a man is shot in the head. I see him between the couch cushions. The blunt’s end, in Jamaica drinking a Red Stripe on a patch of grass, in a backya…"-Siaara Freeman, Urbanshee
"I thought about having a child, naming it after you. Then I realized that child would never know its namesake & that it’s not fair to want someone just because you want someone else. Instead I named …"-Siaara Freeman, Urbanshee
26. Bread Sex Trees: Poetry
By: Alix Klingenberg
4.46
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Bread Sex Trees is a poetic invocation. A call to the dreamers, the visionaries, the alchemists. T… read more
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27. How to Maintain Eye Contact
By: Robert Wood Lynn
3.68
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
How to Maintain Eye Contact takes readers through a journey of uncertainty and what we make of it. … read more
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28. Afterwards: Poems (Button Poetry)
By: Reagan Myers
4.22
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Afterwards is a book about the things that come after trauma. It encompasses the different kinds of… read more
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29. In the Pockets of Small Gods
By: Anis Mojgani
4.33
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Anis Mojgani's latest collection of poetry explores what we do with grief, long after the initial s… read more
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30. Staying Right Here
By: Usman Hameedi
4.19
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Usman Hameedi’s debut collection, Staying Right Here, is a journey in finding home. Hameedi invites… read more
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31. Keep This to Yourself
By: Kerrin McCadden
3.97
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A chapbook dealing in the many layers of loss and grief, and the ways a family moves through and pr… read more
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"I add him to seventy-two-thousand and subtract him from me."-Kerrin McCadden, Keep This to Yourself
"You are supposed to know which door to knock on, that I will open it."-Kerrin McCadden, Keep This to Yourself
"I say it over again- when I lost my brother. A back road I knew once and now can't find."-Kerrin McCadden, Keep This to Yourself
"No one knows what to do now, so we stay in Room 8 for too long, standing close as people come and go. We watch the horses."-Kerrin McCadden, Keep This to Yourself
