Failures of the Poets
By: Anthony Robinson
4.47
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
More than twenty years in the making, Anthony Robinson's long-awaited first book collects poems of …
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1. From the Devotions
By: Carl Phillips
4.06
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
With From the Devotions, Carl Phillips takes us even further into that dangerous space he has alrea… read more
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2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
3. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
4. A Pillow Book
By: Suzanne Buffam
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Not a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manua… read more
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5. Meditations in an Emergency
By: Frank O'Hara
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclai… read more
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7. The Summer Book
By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more
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8. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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9. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
By: Roxane Gay
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more
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10. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
11. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
12. 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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13. 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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"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
14. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
15. 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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16. Information Desk: An Epic
By: Robyn Schiff
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more
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17. Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
By: Diane Seuss
4.41
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry… read more
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18. Aster of Ceremonies: Poems (Multiverse)
By: JJJJJerome Ellis
4.25
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJ… read more
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19. Amanda Paradise
By: C.A. Conrad
4.26
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems in… read more
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20. Cartoons
By: Kit Schluter
4.07
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka, Cartoons is an explosive series of ou… read more
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21. Failures of the Poets
By: Anthony Robinson
4.47
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
More than twenty years in the making, Anthony Robinson's long-awaited first book collects poems of … read more
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22. And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight
By: Lynn Xu
4.21
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Part protest against reality, part metaphysical reckoning, part internationale for the world-histor… read more
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23. Impersonal Rainbow and The Bisexual Purge
By: Paul Killebrew
4.42
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A dazzling new double-bill about being alive these times, by Paul Killebrew, who John Ashbery said … read more
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24. April
By: Sara Nicholson
4.36
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A Third Collection of Poems from the Visionary Imagination of Sara Nicholson. Deadpan, heartfelt, a… read more
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25. Pathetic Literature
By: Eileen Myles
4.32
Format: 747 pages, Kindle Edition
An utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning poet, a global anthology of pieces from … read more
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26. Heaven Is All Goodbyes
By: Tongo Eisen-Martin
4.47
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The much-awaited second book by a truly revolutionary poet, in the lineage of Gil Scott Heron, Alle… read more
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27. Pee Poems
By: Lao Yang
4.80
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Translated by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu. Chinese writer Lao Yang's PEE POEMS go deep and dark--wit… read more
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28. Long Exposure: Poems
By: Julia Anna Morrison
4.79
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Long Exposure follows a single mother in the years after her son’s birth as she struggles with pos… read more
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29. Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise
By: Anthony Madrid
3.82
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Anthony Madrid continues to astonish and amuse with his fourth book of poems, Whatever's Forbidden … read more
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30. Pierrot's Fingernails
By: Kit Schluter
4.50
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Poetry. PIERROT'S FINGERNAILS is the much-anticipated first collection of poetry by Kit Schluter, k… read more
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31. And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight (Wave Books, 98)
By: Lynn Xu
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Part protest against reality, part metaphysical reckoning, part internationale for the world-histor… read more
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