Pink Noise
By: Kevin Holden
4.58
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A book of prismatic, lyrical poems that enhance and disrupt the pastoral tradition to consider orga…
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1. The Bridge
By: Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler
4.08
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America. B… read more
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- poetry
"O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God."-Hart Crane, The Bridge
"O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits The agile precincts of the lark’s return; Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing In single chrysalis the many twain — Of stars Thou art the stitch and…"-Hart Crane, The Bridge
2. Penury
By: Myung Mi Kim
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Breaking communication into its most discrete components, this collection of poems deeply examines … read more
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- poetry
3. Texture Notes
By: Sawako Nakayasu
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Is there a relationship between the population density of Tokyo and… read more
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4. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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5. 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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- poetry
- queer
"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
6. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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- poetry
"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
7. 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
- queer
8. 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
9. 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
- queer
"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
10. From From: Poems
By: Monica Youn
4.18
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more
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- poetry
11. All Boys Aren’t Blue
By: George M. Johnson
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more
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- queer
"History has an interesting way of painting."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
12. 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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- queer
13. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- poetry
- queer
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
14. The Lights: Poems
By: Ben Lerner
3.84
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more
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- poetry
15. Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
By: Aria Aber
4.50
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documenta… read more
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- poetry
"And I cannot see / their faces, who is foreign, who native."-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
"I feed her a spoonful of glass. By morning, she will be a window."-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
"Ich. Ich: far from Auge, the eye. Sounds like licht, which is light, or dicht, which is dense - I, the dense light of my eyeball that strives to look forward only."-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
16. Burying the Mountain
By: Shangyang Fang
4.18
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult… read more
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- poetry
17. 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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- poetry
18. Root Fractures: Poems
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s… read more
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19. 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
20. Borderland Apocrypha
By: Anthony Cody
4.42
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican—American War, but it sparked a se… read more
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- poetry
21. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By: T. Fleischmann
4.01
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more
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- poetry
- queer
"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
22. Tropical Sacrifice
By: Lucas de Lima
4.73
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Tropical Sacrifice is a wishbone against a fascist heart/a prophetic, dream-filled narrative based … read more
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- poetry
- queer
23. stemmy things
By: imogen xtian Smith
4.17
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy This flirty … read more
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- queer
24. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
By: C.A. Conrad
4.40
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Following their book AMANDA Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Priz… read more
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- poetry
25. Synthetic Jungle: Poems
By: Michael Chang
3.66
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A new poetry collection from award-winning author Michael Chang A vital breath of life arrives in… read more
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- poetry
- queer
26. Return
By: Emily Lee Luan
4.26
Format: 97 pages, Paperback
Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorr… read more
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- poetry
27. Pink Waves
By: Sawako Nakayasu
4.46
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
A poem in conversation with literature and written during a durational performance. Written in lo… read more
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- poetry
28. Teeter (Nightboat Books)
By: Kimberly Alidio
4.21
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
An autohistoriography of felt time that arises from subversive hearing practices and the emotional … read more
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- poetry
29. Pink Noise
By: Kevin Holden
4.58
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A book of prismatic, lyrical poems that enhance and disrupt the pastoral tradition to consider orga… read more
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- queer
30. MissSettl
By: Kamden Hilliard
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Sonically vibrant, polyphonic, typographic experimentation gleefully strategizes resistance and lif… read more
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31. Tribunal
By: Lyn Hejinian
4.22
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The three works of poetry that constitute Tribunal were written in the current context of seemingly… read more
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