Daylight
By: Roya Marsh
4.45
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for s…
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1. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
2. Anger Is a Gift
By: Mark Oshiro
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A story of resilience and loss, love and family, Mark Oshiro's Anger is a Gift testifies to the vul… read more
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- mental health
- queer
- lgbt
3. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.10
Format: 264 pages,
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
4. Ordinary Beast
By: Nicole Sealey
4.36
Format: 39 pages, ebook
ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF … read more
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5. Life on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.45
Format: 122 pages,
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more
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6. Black Girl, Call Home
By: Jasmine Mans
4.44
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, a… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- audiobook
- race
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"I know grace and mercy was raised by the same single mother."-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home
"Are women labeled crazy when you feel like their rage outweighs the evidence of their pain?"-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home
7. An American Sunrise
By: Joy Harjo
4.28
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
8. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- adult
- queer
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
9. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.28
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Kate Baer returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers… read more
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- poetry
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"I wanted art / poetry was hidden in so much in so many ways"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
"women want to live without fear For thousands of years We were not believed this is what we carry"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
"You were designed to find satisfaction in your excellence Your nature cannot be retrofitted to the male without permanent damage to the original design"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
10. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- adult
- queer
"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
11. Homie
By: Danez Smith
4.42
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"-Danez Smith, Homie
"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"-Danez Smith, Homie
12. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Goldenrod: Poems
By: Maggie Smith
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
14. Pride
By: Ibi Zoboi
3.74
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring … read more
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- audiobook
"Late June in Brooklyn is like the very beginning of a party-when the music is really good, but you know that it's about to get way better, so you just do a little two-step before the real turn-up sta…"-Ibi Zoboi, Pride
"We have more space and less time. And the love we had for our whole neighborhood now only fits into this wood-frame house in the middle of a quiet block. We don't know the people who live across the …"-Ibi Zoboi, Pride
"Every book is a different hood, a different country, a different world. Reading is how I visit places and people and ideas. And when something rings true or if I still have a question, I outline it w…"-Ibi Zoboi, Pride
15. The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
By: Junauda Petrus
4.26
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus’s bold and lyrical debut is the story … read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"You got to be yourself or else you end up someone else you probably don’t like."-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
"Her eyes were laughing and unashamed, like they had only known yes her whole life."-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
"I hearing Queenie’s words: “Let the pain leave out of you with each breath. It want to be free too,"-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
"And nothing in life prepares you to live, truly live… you alive until you ain’t, so live in any way you can."-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
16. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
By: Resmaa Menakem
4.40
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trau… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- mental health
"At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love."-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
"In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we're broken or we've healed from that brokenness. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human gro…"-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
17. I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
By: Halsey
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Grammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling … read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"I'm whatever I've seen, on a movie screen"-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
"cause I won't love a man Unless he is angry Because of my father"-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
"But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too young; too early."-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
"I can't remember what it's like to face a mirror And not hate the person staring back at me"-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
18. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
19. I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
By: Kimberly Jones
3.69
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
An NAACP Image Award Nominee, I’m Not Dying with You Tonight follows two teen girls—one black, one … read more
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- race
- audiobook
20. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- adult
- queer
"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
21. Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
By: John Murillo
4.45
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
John Murillo’s second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence a… read more
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- poetry
22. Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across
By: Mary Lambert
3.95
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked … read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- audiobook
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
23. What Noise Against the Cane (Volume 115) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
By: Desiree C. Bailey
4.41
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, this Yale Series of Younger Poets volume is a… read more
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- poetry
24. Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
By: Carl Phillips
3.97
Format: 58 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phi… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
25. Twenty-Ninth Year
By: Hala Alyan
3.91
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- audiobook
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
26. Finna
By: Nate Marshall
4.49
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
27. How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Seedbank)
By: Mikeas Sánchez
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. When You Ask Me Where I'm Going (When You Ask Me Where I'm Going, 1)
By: Jasmin Kaur
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Elizabeth Acevedo, Jasmin Kaur’s stunning debut novel is a collec… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- mental health
"do you remember the night i left all my tears on your skin?"-Jasmin Kaur, When You Ask Me Where I'm Going (When You Ask Me Where I'm Going, 1)
"dear mom i know you worry about the way i worry i know there are walls in placewhere rivers want to flow i know it feels like there is a clenched fist beating beneath your chest sometimes but i can h…"-Jasmin Kaur, When You Ask Me Where I'm Going (When You Ask Me Where I'm Going, 1)
29. Side Notes from the Archivist
By: Anastacia-Reneé
4.25
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable femi… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
30. Daylight
By: Roya Marsh
4.45
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for s… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- audiobook
- race
- lgbt
- black literature
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
31. The Collection Plate: Poems
By: Kendra Allen
3.61
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly … read more
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- poetry
- race
- audiobook
