Rest
By: Margaree Little
4.37
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Rest is a vivid, powerful collection examining the human cost of crossing the border. In 2010, Marg…
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1. Ramshackle Ode
By: Keith Leonard
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument f… read more
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2. Unaccompanied
By: Javier Zamora
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-butto… read more
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3. A Village Life
By: Louise Glück
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village,… read more
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4. Bestiary: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological m… read more
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5. Franny and Zooey
By: J.D. Salinger
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more
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6. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
By: Joy Harjo
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of … read more
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7. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
8. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
9. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
10. 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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"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
11. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
By: Jake Skeets
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men “only touch when they fuck in a backseat.” Its landscap… read more
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12. Pig: Poems
By: Sam Sax
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more
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13. Theophanies
By: Sarah Ghazal Ali
4.46
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more
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14. Against Heaven: Poems
By: Kemi Alabi
4.03
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Claudia Rankine. Kemi Alabi’… read more
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15. Cenzontle
By: Marcelo Hernández Castillo
4.18
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In this lyrical, imagistic debut, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo creates a nuanced narrative of life be… read more
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"Each pepper field is the same. In each one I am a failed anthem. I don't know English but there is so little that needs translated out here."-Marcelo Hernández Castillo, Cenzontle
16. Brocken Spectre
By: Jacques J. Rancourt
4.63
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Set in San Francisco, Brocken Spectre examines the way the past presses up against the present. The… read more
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17. Teeth Never Sleep: Poems (CantoMundo Poetry Series)
By: Ángel García
4.31
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Finalist, 2019 PEN Open Book Award Winner, 2019 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation Dr… read more
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18. Rest
By: Margaree Little
4.37
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Rest is a vivid, powerful collection examining the human cost of crossing the border. In 2010, Marg… read more
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19. Edgewater
By: Ruth L. Schwartz
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
"In Edgewater , her powerfully moving and redemptive third collection, Ruth L. Schwartz writes with… read more
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