Cruel Futures (City Lights Spotlight, No. 17)
By: Carmen Gimenez Smith
3.96
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Cruel Futures, the fifth collection from Latinx feminista Carmen Giménez Smith, is a witchy confess…
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1. Save Twilight: Selected Poems
By: Julio Cortázar , Stephen Kessler
4.23
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
"Selections from CortGazar's 1984 collection Salvo el crepGusculo (see HLAS 50:3601), including pro… read more
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- poetry
"Soy lo que sueño y que sueño lo que soy. despierto sólo me conozco a medias."-Julio Cortázar, Save Twilight: Selected Poems
"Cada vez somos más los que creemos menos en la utilización del humanismo para el nirvana estereofónico de mandarines y de estetas."-Julio Cortázar, Save Twilight: Selected Poems
"Creo que no te quiero, que solamente quiero la imposibilidad tan obvia de quererte. Como el guante izquierdo enamorado de la mano derecha."-Julio Cortázar, Save Twilight: Selected Poems
"Un tráfico secreto ordena este desorden, ten confianza y espera. Verás, oirás, perfumarás tu cara con las presencias que derrama esta constelación de sangre."-Julio Cortázar, Save Twilight: Selected Poems
2. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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- feminism
"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
3. Madness
By: Sam Sax
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Ser… read more
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4. Revolutionary Letters
By: Diane di Prima
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first of these poems were written during the active days of the late 1960s, and published by th… read more
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5. 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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6. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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7. Paroles
By: Jacques Prévert
4.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rappelle-toi Barbara Il pleuvait sans cesse sur Brest ce jour la Et tu marchais souriante Epanouie … read more
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8. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- feminism
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
9. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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- poetry
10. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- poetry
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
11. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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- poetry
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
12. 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
"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
13. Barbie Chang
By: Victoria Chang
4.15
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Barbie’s cultural artifice is unmasked by Victoria Chang’s imagination, lifting the struggle of Asi… read more
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- poetry
14. Call Us What We Carry
By: Amanda Gorman
4.28
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more
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- poetry
"Loss is the cost of loving"-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"We write Because you might listen."-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"And the norms and notions of what “just is"-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry
15. 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
- feminism
"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
16. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
17. The Trees Witness Everything
By: Victoria Chang
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more
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- poetry
18. 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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- poetry
19. The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems
By: Threa Almontaser
4.22
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Harryette MullenBy t… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
20. Pig: Poems
By: Sam Sax
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more
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21. Content Warning: Everything
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.94
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more
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22. 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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- poetry
- feminism
23. Metamorphoses (City Lights Spotlight, No. 22)
By: Evan Kennedy
4.22
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
One of Publishers Weekly 's Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring 2023 Metamorphoses springs fr… read more
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24. Cruel Futures (City Lights Spotlight, No. 17)
By: Carmen Gimenez Smith
3.96
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Cruel Futures, the fifth collection from Latinx feminista Carmen Giménez Smith, is a witchy confess… read more
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- feminism
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25. wyrd] bird
By: Claire Marie Stancek
4.20
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek’s wyrd] bird grapples wi… read more
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