What Small Sound
By: Francesca Bell
4.16
Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition
Francesca Bell’s second collection of poems, What Small Sound, interrogates what it means to be a m…
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1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more
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"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
2. Good Bones
By: Maggie Smith
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children t… read more
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- poetry
3. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
By: John Ashbery
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle… read more
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4. Future Home of the Living God
By: Louise Erdrich
3.60
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
Louise Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn ch… read more
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"She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I’d been a snowflake. Without my specialness, I melted,"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"Where will you be my darling, the last time it snows on earth?"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I’ll never know how things turn out."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
5. 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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6. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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7. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
By: Joanna Biggs
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times , The Week , Vulture , Elle, and The Mi… read more
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"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
8. 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.
9. The Blueprint
By: Rae Giana Rashad
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A captivating debut exploring power imbalances, bodily autonomy, love, and the generational legacy … read more
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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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"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. 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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"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
12. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
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13. 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
14. 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
"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
15. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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16. Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
By: Leah Myers
3.81
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore… read more
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"I wonder if I will ever feel Native enough."-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
"You don't have the right to define my identity."-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
"She gave up herself and her identity for security."-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
"My home is in Georgia, but my soul is at home here."-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
17. Turn Up the Ocean: Poems
By: Tony Hoagland
4.31
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The final book of poems by Tony Hoagland, “one of the most distinctive voices of our time” (Carl De… read more
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18. Space Struck
By: Paige Lewis
4.07
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more
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"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
19. Grand Tour: Poems
By: Elisa Gonzalez
3.92
Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition
Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it g… read more
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20. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
By: Katie Farris
4.31
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more
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21. Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems
By: José Hernández Díaz
4.60
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a risi… read more
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22. Citizen Illegal
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of C… read more
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"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
"my enemies aren’t ugly-faced crooks, they don’t laugh while innocent die. they point & say how tragic then go home to pet their cute dogs."-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
23. The Kissing of Kissing
By: Hannah Emerson
3.77
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse—a literary series written and cur… read more
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24. Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
By: Shane McCrae
3.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and ra… read more
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"When she told me why she was divorcing my grandfather, I was surprised - all my life, I had thought he could do anything he wanted. But after a few long moments of silence, I realized: he had only ev…"-Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
25. The Skunks
By: Fiona Warnick
3.75
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Reminiscent of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, Fiona Warnick’s precise and tender prose captures the… read more
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26. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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27. 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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28. Negative Money
By: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
4.05
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the… read more
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29. What Small Sound
By: Francesca Bell
4.16
Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition
Francesca Bell’s second collection of poems, What Small Sound, interrogates what it means to be a m… read more
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30. Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
By: Emily Van Duyne
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A nuanced, intelligent, and passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunder… read more
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"What follows is my best effort to shed as much light as possible on events that have not simply been forgotten or left in the dark, but relegated to the attic, or the ash can, or the metaphorical dar…"-Emily Van Duyne, Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
31. Forest of Noise: Poems
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.73
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winn… read more
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