The Nerves
By: Lee Suksi
4.30
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Nerves is set in an imaginary world where our sense memories tell us who we are. The Nerves sub…
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1. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith
4.10
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more
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"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
2. Pony Castle
By: Sofia Banzhaf
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"I am performing girl performing slut performing real person performing fantasy. It's a complex per… read more
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3. Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
By: Liz Howard
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A stunning debut book of poems from a bold new voice unafraid to engage with the exigencies of our … read more
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4. M Train
By: Patti Smith
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more
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"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."-Patti Smith, M Train
"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."-Patti Smith, M Train
"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."-Patti Smith, M Train
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."-Patti Smith, M Train
5. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more
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- fiction
"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
6. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- lgbt
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
7. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- lgbt
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
8. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
9. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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- fiction
"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
10. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
11. Year of the Monkey
By: Patti Smith
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully reali… read more
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"Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow. A tomorrow following a whole succession of tomorrows."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
12. More Sure
By: A. Light Zachary
4.39
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A book of poems and augmentations, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in n… read more
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- lgbt
13. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- lgbt
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
14. Ponyboy
By: Eliot Duncan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
15. Mudflowers
By: Aley Waterman
3.37
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the year following her mother’s death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a ne… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
16. The Nerves
By: Lee Suksi
4.30
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Nerves is set in an imaginary world where our sense memories tell us who we are. The Nerves sub… read more
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17. Personal Attention Roleplay
By: H. Felix Chau Bradley
4.10
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mo… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
18. MONUMENT
By: Manahil Bandukwala
4.39
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
MONUMENT is a conversation with Mughal Empress Mumtaz Mahal, which moves her legacy beyond the Taj … read more
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19. Slows: Twice
By: Tess Liem
4.35
Format: None pages, ebook
Backward and a double book of mirrored poems about identity in all its forms.This is a book of slo… read more
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20. Letters From Montreal: Tales of an Exceptional City
By: Madi Haslam
4.16
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Letters From Montreal documents the experiences of Montrealers past and present, creating a portrai… read more
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21. Knot Body
By: Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
4.36
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. Bringing … read more
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