I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
By: Mahogany L. Browne
4.34
Format: None pages, ebook
The long form poem is a practice of poetics in joy, gratitude, sadness, resilience and pain. This l…
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1. No Matter the Wreckage
By: Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry … read more
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- poetry
2. 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
3. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
4. Assata: An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds
4.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more
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- race
5. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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6. Something Bright, Then Holes
By: Maggie Nelson
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Maggie Nelson's fourth collection of poems combines a wanderer's attention to landscape with a deep… read more
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7. 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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- african american
- race
"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
8. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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- poetry
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
9. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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- poetry
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
10. 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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11. 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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- african american
- race
"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
12. 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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- poetry
- race
"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
13. Ain't Burned All the Bright
By: Jason Reynolds
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerall… read more
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- poetry
"What is life in a house underwater?"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and freedom to play without worry about the rules being rearranged"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and she wipes weary from her eyes still glued to the no-good glued to the high definition glare of low-definition life"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about h…"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
14. 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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- poetry
- race
"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
15. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
16. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more
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"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
17. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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- poetry
- race
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
18. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
19. I Think I Might Love You (Love Sisters, #1)
By: Christina C. Jones
4.22
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Jaclyn Love is a magnet for trouble - it seems to follow her wherever she goes. Unfortunately for … read more
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20. 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
"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
21. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
By: Audre Lorde
4.62
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indel… read more
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- race
"Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself - a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - …"-Audre Lorde, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
22. The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems
By: Sally Wen Mao
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, “a consistently inspiring and exciting voice”… read more
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- poetry
23. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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- poetry
- african american
- race
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
24. There Are Trans People Here
By: H. Melt
4.19
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the… read more
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- poetry
25. Build Yourself a Boat
By: Camonghne Felix
4.07
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
2019 National Book Award Longlist A poetic exploration of trauma, healing, and survival from awa… read more
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- poetry
- african american
- race
26. Wade in the Water: Poems
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.10
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more
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- poetry
- african american
- race
"History is a ship forever setting sail."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
27. 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
- african american
- race
28. The Shift: Poetry for a New Perspective
By: Melody Godfred
3.78
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The world has changed – but thankfully so have we. The Poetry for a New Perspective embodies the b… read more
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- poetry
29. I'm Always so Serious
By: Karisma Price
4.31
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
" I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.” —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for … read more
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- poetry
30. I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
By: Mahogany L. Browne
4.34
Format: None pages, ebook
The long form poem is a practice of poetics in joy, gratitude, sadness, resilience and pain. This l… read more
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- african american
- race
31. HoodWitch (ACRE)
By: Faylita Hicks
4.40
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary… read more
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- race
