Crisis Actor
By: Declan Ryan
4.13
Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition
'Elegant and heartaching, these poems illuminate the sorrows of life with a bright flame, returning…
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1. Nature Poem
By: Tommy Pico
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more
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2. Provinces of Night
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more
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3. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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4. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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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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7. Le grand cahier
By: Ágota Kristóf
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dans un pays ravage par la guerre, Claus Et Lucas font l'apprentissage de la vie, de l'ecriture et … read more
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8. 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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9. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
10. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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11. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
12. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
13. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
14. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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15. Wrong Norma
By: Anne Carson
4.33
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more
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"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
16. Judas Goat: Poems
By: Gabrielle Bates
4.21
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more
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17. Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems
By: Valzhyna Mort
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New Yor… read more
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18. A Year of Last Things: Poems
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.61
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more
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19. Information Desk: An Epic
By: Robyn Schiff
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more
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20. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
By: Nam Le
4.05
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat In his first … read more
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21. With My Back to the World: Poems
By: Victoria Chang
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more
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22. Soho
By: Richard Scott
4.09
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay … read more
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23. Spectral Evidence: Poems
By: Gregory Pardlo
4.11
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-win… read more
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24. Negative Space
By: Gillian Linden
3.26
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, an… read more
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25. El uso de la foto
By: Annie Ernaux
3.82
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
«A menudo, desde el principio de nuestra relación, me había quedado fascinada descubriendo al despe… read more
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26. Open Up
By: Thomas Morris
3.77
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of … read more
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27. Crisis Actor
By: Declan Ryan
4.13
Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition
'Elegant and heartaching, these poems illuminate the sorrows of life with a bright flame, returning… read more
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28. Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems
By: Carl Phillips
4.15
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner C… read more
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29. Bluff: Poems
By: Danez Smith
4.53
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more
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30. Sonnets for a Missing Key: And Some Others
By: Percival Everett
3.82
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
These sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin. Do keys matter? Do they speak to differen… read more
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31. The Principle of Rapid Peering
By: Sylvia Legris
3.88
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
A lyrical guide through Saskatchewan’s Aspen Parkland by a poet whose work is “fizzing with ecolog… read more
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