26 must-read poetry books like Umbilical Cord by Hasan Namir

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Umbilical Cord

By: Hasan Namir

4.03

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Dear Child, Once upon a time, Your dads wanted to have a baby. It was a life-long dream of ours. We…

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1. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

By: bell hooks

4.18

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more

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2. Dog Songs

By: None , Mary Oliver

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more

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3. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

By: Joy Harjo

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of … read more

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4. poyums

By: Len Pennie

4.58

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

And I have done more than just simply get by So much more than escape or survive Through the galv… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

By: Kwame Alexander

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and… read more

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  • poetry
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6. 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
  • lgbt
"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

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7. An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

4.28

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more

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  • poetry
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

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8. Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.82

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

in her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things , bestselling & award-winn… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
"but she was wearing a short skirt."

-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

"everyone loves a strong woman until that woman no longer tolerates their bullshit. —the age-old proverb."

-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

"some days i wake up & think, i would still do anything for the person you made me think you were. —it’s too bad he doesn’t exist."

-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

"i refuse to be ashamed of taking up my rightful. i refuse to apologize for daring to have an opinion. —it’s a pleasure to disappoint you."

-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

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9. 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
  • lgbt
"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

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10. 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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  • poetry
"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

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11. Woman Without Shame: Poems

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more

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  • poetry
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12. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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13. Huda F Are You?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the creator of Yes, I'm Hot In This, this cheeky, hilarious, and honest graphic novel asks the… read more

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"Use your hijab, woman! Cover that forehead!"

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

"I swear if we end up getting joint weddings, we're running away."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

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14. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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  • poetry
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15. Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.85

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“life is not something that can be experienced on a deadline.”amanda lovelace, the bestselling & aw… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
"actually, no, i don’t take it as a compliment when you tell me how “hot"

-Amanda Lovelace, Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)

"you truly don’t have to wait until a special occasion to do anything, so go on & put the holiday tree up in august. stay up till dawn making that instagram-worthy cake. wear those glistening green he…"

-Amanda Lovelace, Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)

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16. The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now—indestructible. These moving, … read more

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  • poetry
" -call us alexandria "

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"Confiança não é egocentrismo"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"Fuck the idea of staying calm."

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"i am the girl with the arsonist heart"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

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17. And Yet: Poems

By: Kate Baer

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more

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  • poetry
"Let your life rest on what is already good."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

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18. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

By: Megan Fox

3.76

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over… read more

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  • poetry
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19. 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
  • lgbt
"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

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20. Dearly

By: Margaret Atwood

3.74

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more

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  • poetry
"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

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21. Break Your Glass Slippers (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #1)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.95

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"more forgetting time.more midnight dances with yourself."amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-… read more

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  • poetry
"when you spend all your time imagining yourself in other people's shoes, your own story goes unwritten, & there is nothing more painful than that."

-Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #1)

"here is nothing unfeminist about the girl who chooses the ball gown & the prince. there is everything unfeminist about those who try to shame her for her choices."

-Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #1)

"inside the cramped fitting room, she slips into dress after dress as if she´s trying to slip into someone else´s life. - much to her dismay, her reflection stays the same."

-Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #1)

"if he doesn’t think you’re absolutely stunning at your dirty sweats & grass-stained feet, then he sure as hell doesn’t deserve you at your fancy dress & uncomfortable heels."

-Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #1)

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22. Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more

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23. Shine your Icy Crown (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #2)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.97

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“Make them rue the day they underestimated you.”This is a story about not letting society dictate t… read more

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  • poetry
"don’t you dare become smaller to make room for others. don’t you dare shrink back into the shadows. don’t you dare wither while everyone else blooms. here’s an indisputable fact: you matter."

-Amanda Lovelace, Shine your Icy Crown (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #2)

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24. 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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  • poetry
Cover of Instructions for Traveling West: Poems by Joy Sullivan

25. 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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  • poetry
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26. O (Penguin Poets)

By: Zeina Hashem Beck

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

From a brilliant, absolutely essential voice whose poems feel like whole worlds (Naomi Shihab Nye),… read more

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  • poetry
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27. Someone Somewhere Maybe

By: Sophie Diener

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For fans of Rupi Kaur, Cleo Wade, and Amanda Lovelace, Someone Somewhere Maybe speaks to the joys a… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Lima :: Limón

By: Natalie Scenters-Zapico

4.37

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on … read more

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  • poetry
"ভালো কঙ্কাল জীবন অনেক ছোটো, আর আমি তা দেশের মেয়েদের বলি । জীবন অনেক ছোটো, আর আমি ওদের দেখাই কেমন করে কথা বলতে হয় দরোজা না খুলে পুলিশের সঙ্গে, কেমন করে সোশাল সিকিউরিটি নম্বর ফাঁকা রাখতে হবে পরীক্ষার খাতায়…"

-Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón

"মেহিকো-মার্কিন কবি নাটালি সেন্টার্স-জাপিকো-র কবিতা অনুবাদ : মলয় রায়চৌধুরী যুবকটার হাঁ-মুখের বাতিক আছে ও নিজেকে সামলাতে পারে না, মরা ফুলগুলোকে, ছেঁটেফেলা নখ, বাসি আটার বস্তা নিজের মুখে ঢোকায় । ও থামতে পার…"

-Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón

"तुम एक अंधेरे शरीर हो पानी के तल में पानी दिखाई नहीं दे रहा है आप से आप पानी के एकमात्र अंधेरे शरीर हैं रेगिस्तान में हर जगह खूनी कैक्टस फैल गया। आपकी हड्डी की हड्डी के पास एक संकीर्ण खड्ड है एक बाल पर बंधे…"

-Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón

"তুমি এক অন্ধকার দেহ জলের যাতে তলদেশের পাথর দেখা যাচ্ছে না তোমার ওপর থেকে । তুমি কেবল জলের একমাত্র অন্ধকার দেহ মরুভূমিতে যেখানে চারিদিকে ছড়িয়ে রয়েছে রক্তাক্ত ক্যাকটাস । তোমার কন্ঠের হাড়ের কাছে তুমি বইছ একটা স…"

-Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón

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29. You Still Look the Same

By: Farzana Doctor

3.80

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed nov… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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30. Umbilical Cord

By: Hasan Namir

4.03

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Dear Child, Once upon a time, Your dads wanted to have a baby. It was a life-long dream of ours. We… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
Cover of Zoom Rooms: Poems by Mary Jo Salter

31. Zoom Rooms: Poems

By: Mary Jo Salter

3.13

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinnin… read more

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  • poetry

8 best-selling lgbt books like Umbilical Cord by Hasan Namir

Transform Your Habits

Black Girl, Call Home

Jasmine Mans

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

Amanda Lovelace

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Warsan Shire

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Several People Are Typing

Calvin Kasulke

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Disoriental

Négar Djavadi

4.21

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