We Were All Someone Else Yesterday
By: Omar Holmon
4.11
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A hybrid text that deals most urgently in the articulation of growth and grief. After the loss of h…
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1. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
By: Warsan Shire
4.25
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more
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- adult
"Her body is one long sigh."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
2. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.21
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more
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- adult
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
3. peluda
By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
3.98
Format: 392 pages,
One of the most original performance poets of her generation, Melissa Lozada-Oliva has captivated c… read more
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- poetry
- adult
4. Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
By: Andrea Gibson
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Andrea Gibson's dynamic and energetic first book, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns, challenges us to no… read more
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- poetry
5. Fortunately, the Milk
By: Neil Gaiman , Skottie Young
4.06
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this:… read more
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"The piranhas said nothing, but they thrashes about in their bowl, ominously."-Neil Gaiman, Fortunately, the Milk
"The piranhas said nothing, but they thrashed about in their bowl, ominously."-Neil Gaiman, Fortunately, the Milk
"Dinosaurs are reptiles, sir," said Professor Steg. "We do not go in for milk."-Neil Gaiman, Fortunately, the Milk
"Being a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of learned journals."-Neil Gaiman, Fortunately, the Milk
6. The Crown Ain't Worth Much
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
3.69
Format: 192 pages,
The Crown Ain t Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib s first full-length collection, is a sharp and … read more
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- poetry
7. Depression & Other Magic Tricks
By: Sabrina Benaim
4.27
Format: 359 pages,
Depression & Other Magic Tricksis the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performa… read more
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- poetry
- adult
8. Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair
By: William Evans , William Evans
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair is the latest book by author William Evans, founder of Black Nerd… read more
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- adult
9. 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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10. Autopsy
By: None
4.02
Format: 982 pages,
Written after the death of his mother, Donte Collins's Autopsy establishes the poet as one of the m… read more
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11. Felicity
By: Mary Oliver
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more
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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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14. The Dark Between Stars
By: Atticus Poetry
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The … read more
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- adult
"I love you most in that place between coffee and sleep."-Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars
"She was powerful, not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear."-Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars
"The plane shook and it scared her not because she was scared to fall but because she cared so little if she did."-Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars
15. The Sandman: Act I
By: Dirk Maggs
4.39
Format: 11 pages, Audible Audio
Hailed by the Los Angeles Times Magazine as “the greatest epic in the history of comic books”, The … read more
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16. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- adult
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
17. Helium (Button Poetry)
By: Rudy Francisco
4.29
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by … read more
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- adult
"The word “repurpose"-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"I held you the way a boat holds water."-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at."-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
"you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time"-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)
18. And Yet: Poems
By: Kate Baer
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more
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- adult
"Let your life rest on what is already good."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
19. Starfish
By: Lisa Fipps
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this debut novel-in-verse. Eve… read more
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"I'm a starfish, taking p all the room I want."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
"I'm a starfish, taking up all the room I want."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
"DNA doesn't make you family. Love does. Actions do."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
"No matter what others say or do, embrace what makes you, you."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
20. The Trees Witness Everything
By: Victoria Chang
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more
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21. 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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- adult
"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
22. Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction
By: Jared Singer
3.93
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
Singer’s highly anticipated debut book collects and transforms work from his ten years as a mainsta… read more
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23. Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
By: Rachel Wiley
3.99
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Revenge Body is a poetry collection that explores anger (righteous and not), black identity, body i… read more
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- adult
"water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle"-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
24. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
By: Rudy Francisco
4.31
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more
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- adult
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
25. SINK (Button Poetry)
By: Desireé Dallagiacomo
4.27
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Desireé Dallagiacomo's debut book grapples with the intersections of family and mental health. Sink… read more
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26. Ephemera
By: Sierra DeMulder
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
If every experience lasted forever and the sands of time never interrupted our most loving moments,… read more
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27. Butcher
By: Natasha T. Miller
4.16
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Butcher is a book about love & loss — about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha… read more
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28. Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom (Button Poetry)
By: Azura Tyabji
3.82
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom is a crossover of our coming of age universes. Explorin… read more
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29. We Were All Someone Else Yesterday
By: Omar Holmon
4.11
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A hybrid text that deals most urgently in the articulation of growth and grief. After the loss of h… read more
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- adult
30. How to Maintain Eye Contact
By: Robert Wood Lynn
3.68
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
How to Maintain Eye Contact takes readers through a journey of uncertainty and what we make of it. … read more
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31. Crown Noble (Button Poetry)
By: Bianca Phipps
4.02
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Crown noble, the breathtaking debut by Bianca Phipps, navigates the crossroads of familial ties and… read more
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