Field Study
By: Chet'la Sebree
4.30
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets Layered, complex,…
Want to Read $ 11.99"If it weren't for ruins, I wouldn't be writing."-Chet'la Sebree, Field Study
"If it weren't for ruins, I wouldn't be writing."-Chet'la Sebree, Field Study
"If it weren't for ruins, I wouldn't be writing."-Chet'la Sebree, Field Study
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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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"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. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
3. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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4. 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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5. 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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6. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
7. 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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"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
8. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more
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"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
9. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
10. Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Louise Glück
3.99
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
11. The Times I Knew I Was Gay
By: Eleanor Crewes
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ellie always had questions about who she was and how she fit in. As a girl, she wore black, obsesse… read more
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12. Goldenrod: Poems
By: Maggie Smith
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more
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"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
13. 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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14. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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15. 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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"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
16. 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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17. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
18. Of Cattle and Men
By: Ana Paula Maia
3.97
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more
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"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
19. Grimoire Noir
By: Vera Greentea
3.82
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Bucky Orson is a bit gloomy, but who isn’t at fifteen? His best friend left him to hang out with… read more
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20. Oceanic
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the… read more
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21. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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22. Ghost Of
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.36
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more
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23. Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide
By: Isabel Quintero
3.94
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Graciela Iturbide was born in México City in 1942, the oldest of 13 children. When tragedy struck I… read more
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24. Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body
By: Savala Nolan
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between … read more
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25. Junk
By: Tommy Pico
4.30
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
An NPR Best Book of the Year From 2018 Whiting Award winner Tommy Pico, Junk is a book-length brea… read more
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"I thot falling in love was a burden A kind of crowding on my landscape Love creates space, dummy Doesn’t take it up"-Tommy Pico, Junk
26. Brown Neon
By: Raquel Gutiérrez
3.92
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artis… read more
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"It was losing faith that got easy."-Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon
"Maybe I was too educated and too spoiled, and that meant never having to settle for marriage to strengthen my economic lot the way my mother had to do..."-Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon
27. Veinte, veintiuno (Spanish Edition)
By: Laia Jufresa
4.12
Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition
En su primera obra de no ficción, Laia Jufresa, una de las mejores escritoras mexicanas, retrata co… read more
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28. Every Day We Get More Illegal
By: Juan Felipe Herrera
4.05
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020! A State of the Union from the natio… read more
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29. Field Study
By: Chet'la Sebree
4.30
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets Layered, complex,… read more
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"If it weren't for ruins, I wouldn't be writing."-Chet'la Sebree, Field Study
30. Invasive species
By: Marwa Helal
4.37
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
In Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humani… read more
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31. Love Love Love, tome 1 : Yeah Yeah Yeah
By: Kid Toussaint
3.61
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
Si les robots peuvent tomber amoureux, c’est qu’ils ont une âme. Il n’est pourtant pas question dan… read more
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