Collected Poems: 1950–2012
By: Adrienne Rich
4.54
Format: 1164 pages, Hardcover
Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets…
Want to Read $ 22.99"We murmur moonwords."-Adrienne Rich, Collected Poems: 1950–2012
"We murmur moonwords."-Adrienne Rich, Collected Poems: 1950–2012
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1. Men We Reaped: A Memoir
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came t… read more
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"But this grief, for all its awful weight, insists that he matters."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"But my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty of fighting, the way it turned his body and those he fought into meticulously constructed machines."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Men’s bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear as ghosts. In death, they transcend he circumstances of this place that I l…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Some of them were my friends, and they never took up for me, for Black people, when I was in the room. And according to what some of them told me in private conversation, they didn't when I wasn't in…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
2. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
"These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a blac… read more
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- feminism
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"I see much better now and my eyes hurt."-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
"Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home."-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
"The Seventh Sense" Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea"-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
"And I knew when I entered her I was high wind in her forests hollow fingers whispering sound honey flowed from the split cup impaled on a lance of tongues on the tips of her breasts on her navel and …"-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
3. A Poetry Handbook
By: Mary Oliver
4.22
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"(...) A Poetry Handbook was written with writers of poetry most vividly in my mind; their needs an… read more
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"A poem on the page speaks to the listening mind."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"Invention hovers always a little above the rules."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"The language of the poem is the language of particulars."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents"-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
4. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
5. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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6. The Complete Poems
By: Anne Sexton , Maxine Kumin
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the i… read more
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7. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more
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8. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
9. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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10. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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11. Collected Poems, 1909-1962
By: T.S. Eliot
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that Eliot himself wished to preserve than … read more
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12. The Essential Rumi
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Coleman Barks
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumiincludes a new introduction by Coleman Barks… read more
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13. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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14. Right Wing Women
By: Andrea Dworkin
4.75
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
What does the Right offer to women? How does the Right mobilize women? Why is the Right succeeding … read more
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15. Transformations
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Anne Sexton , None
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose honesty and wit in the face of … read more
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16. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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17. Animal Liberation
By: Peter Singer
3.80
Format: 220 pages,
The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work… read more
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18. 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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19. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON'S POEMS Only eleven of Emily Di… read more
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20. The Complete Collected Poems
By: Maya Angelou
4.22
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pul… read more
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21. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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22. What Kind of Woman: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more
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- feminism
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
23. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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- fiction
24. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
25. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- feminism
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"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
26. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
27. Grand Union
By: Zadie Smith
3.26
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, f… read more
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"See what you've done there is you've transformed an act of the perpetrator into another person's being. I said, You don't say to a witch: the reason they're dunking you is because you're a witch. You…"-Zadie Smith, Grand Union
28. Having and Being Had
By: Eula Biss
3.83
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned … read more
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"Art unmakes the world made by work."-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card compan…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagi…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Some people choose their precarity - evidence that precarity is not just a condition of our time, but a response to it. The precariat includes people who have forgone stable employment and retirement…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
29. Library of Small Catastrophes
By: Alison C. Rollins
4.14
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins’ ambitious debut collection, interrogates the body an… read more
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30. Collected Poems: 1950–2012
By: Adrienne Rich
4.54
Format: 1164 pages, Hardcover
Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets… read more
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- american
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- feminism
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- queer
"We murmur moonwords."-Adrienne Rich, Collected Poems: 1950–2012
31. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
