Sheep Machine
By: Vi Khi Nao
4.38
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Sheep Machine is a textual inscape, a poetically painted nonfictional pasture where mechanical viol…
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1. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
2. The Descent of Alette
By: Alice Notley
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In "The Descent of Alette," Alice Notley presents a feminist epic, a bold journey into the deeper r… read more
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3. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
By: bell hooks
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more
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4. Poemland
By: Chelsey Minnis
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, cont… read more
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5. Midwinter Day
By: Bernadette Mayer
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts… read more
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6. Bipolar Cowboy
By: Noah Cicero
3.83
Format: 95 pages,
The first poetry collection by acclaimed cult author Noah Cicero, Bipolar Cowboy is "a book of love… read more
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7. Jane: A Murder
By: Maggie Nelson
3.93
Format: None pages,
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered … read more
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8. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
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9. The Poethical Wager
By: Joan Retallack
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique p… read more
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10. Revolutionary Letters
By: Diane di Prima
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first of these poems were written during the active days of the late 1960s, and published by th… read more
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11. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
12. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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13. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
14. 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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15. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
16. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
17. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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18. The Friend
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her do… read more
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"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
19. 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
20. What Are You Going Through
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.74
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a … read more
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"Only those who are writers, it seems, get to say what happened"-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
"And what the movie makes clear is that, if there really was a Supreme Being who had to listen to people's prayers all the time, he would go out of his mind."-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
"Anyway, don't they say that every good story is a suspense story? And every story is a love story. And every love story is a ghost story. And everybody loves somebody sometime."-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
"What are you going through? When Simone Weil said that being able to ask this question was what love of one's neighbor truly meant, she was writing in her native French. And in French the great quest…"-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
21. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
22. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
By: Jia Tolentino
4.04
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more
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"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
23. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
24. The Sorrows of Others
By: Ada Zhang
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others i… read more
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25. 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
26. or, on being the other woman
By: Simone White
4.00
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
In or, on being the other woman , Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminis… read more
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27. DMZ Colony
By: Don Mee Choi
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of… read more
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"It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving. So it's most likely that the decision, seemingly all mine, was already made years …"-Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony
28. Life Is Everywhere
By: Lucy Ives
3.58
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A multi-faceted, matryoshka doll of a novel which asks how far we ever able to understand ourselves… read more
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29. Afterrimages (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Joan Retallack
4.45
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
Retallack's book draws readers into a meditative experience of time, space and language. Joan Reta… read more
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30. Aerial Concave Without Cloud
By: Sueyeun Juliette Lee
4.73
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems about starlight, survival, resilience, and acceptance after experiences of pr… read more
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31. Sheep Machine
By: Vi Khi Nao
4.38
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Sheep Machine is a textual inscape, a poetically painted nonfictional pasture where mechanical viol… read more
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