Tender (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Toi Derricotte
4.22
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Toi Derricotte’s fourth collection of poetry. Tender probes sexuality, spirituality, emotion, chi…
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1. Blood Dazzler
By: Patricia Smith
4.42
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-bl… read more
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- poetry
2. Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol. 21)
By: Lucille Clifton
4.34
Format: 89 pages, Paperback
Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton's personal an… read more
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- poetry
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
5. The Namesake
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladiesestablished this young writer as one the most brilliant of h… read more
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6. Song
By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly
3.82
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent fo… read more
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- poetry
7. My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Hailed as "not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one" (The New York Times Book Revi… read more
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- poetry
8. What the Living Do: Poems
By: Marie Howe
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more
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- poetry
9. If Beale Street Could Talk
By: James Baldwin
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more
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10. Odes
By: Sharon Olds
3.77
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
'Interspersed with acts of breathtaking linguistic daring.' Charlotte Mendelson, ObserverBook of th… read more
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- poetry
11. Jazz
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more
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12. Native Guard
By: Natasha Trethewey
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethe… read more
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13. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
By: Morgan Parker
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonceuses political and pop-cultural references as a framewo… read more
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14. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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15. 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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16. Hip Logic
By: Terrance Hayes
4.19
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
The second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Awar… read more
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17. Diving Into the Wreck
By: Adrienne Rich
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the d… read more
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18. Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems
By: Sonia Sanchez , Deborah Chasman
4.11
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Like the Singing Coming off the Drumsis a dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscape… read more
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19. 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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20. The Book of Light
By: Lucille Clifton
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lucille Cliftonwas born in Depew, New York in 1936, and educated at the State University of New Yor… read more
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21. Thrall
By: Natasha Trethewey
4.20
Format: 141 pages, Hardcover
The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by America's new Poe… read more
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22. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
23. 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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"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
24. 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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- poetry
"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
25. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
26. Joan Is Okay
By: Weike Wang
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be… read more
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"I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"A woman who twirls her hair while speaking is a woman never to be taken seriously"-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"Proud to be an American, a feeling that I lacked but also a phrase that I didn't think applied to me."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
27. Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Louise Glück
3.99
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
28. The Renunciations: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
4.29
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more
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29. 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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"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
30. Best Barbarian: Poems
By: Roger Reeves
4.10
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more
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31. Tender (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Toi Derricotte
4.22
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Toi Derricotte’s fourth collection of poetry. Tender probes sexuality, spirituality, emotion, chi… read more
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