Selected Poems: 1950-2012
By: Adrienne Rich
4.24
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Sixty years of poems from pioneering writer, activist, and intellectual Adrienne Rich―“the Blake of…
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- poetry
- school
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. The Seven Ages
By: Louise Glück
4.02
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The Seven Ages was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1999. The fierce, austerely b… read more
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- poetry
"I even loved a few times in my disgusting human way."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you it will not keep you alive."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"The curtains parted. Light coming in. Moonlight, then sunlight. Not changing because time was passing but because the one moment had many aspects."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?"-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
3. Book of Longing
By: Leonard Cohen
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our … read more
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- poetry
"I am this thing that needs to sing."-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
"need to see I never saw your need for me your longing raw"-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
"How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings"-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
"My animal howls My angel's upset But I'm not allowed A trace of regret"-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
4. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- poetry
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
5. A Poetry Handbook
By: Mary Oliver
4.22
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"(...) A Poetry Handbook was written with writers of poetry most vividly in my mind; their needs an… read more
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- poetry
- school
"A poem on the page speaks to the listening mind."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"Invention hovers always a little above the rules."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"The language of the poem is the language of particulars."-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
"Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents"-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
6. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
By: Hilary Mantel
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more
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7. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded sea… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
8. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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9. Desert of the Heart
By: Jane Rule
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. This classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's f… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
10. The Clown
By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz , Laureano Xoaquín Araujo Cardalda
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schnier collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t mar… read more
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"I am a clown...and I collect moments."-Heinrich Böll, The Clown
"بی خداها حوصله ام را سر می برند، چون فقط درباره خدا حرف می زنند!"-Heinrich Böll, The Clown
"Atheisten langweilen mich, weil sie immer nur von Gott sprechen."-Heinrich Böll, The Clown
"An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass."-Heinrich Böll, The Clown
11. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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- poetry
- queer
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12. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
13. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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14. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
15. The Sound of the Mountain
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
By day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he hears a distant rumble fro… read more
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16. 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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17. Lost Children Archive
By: Valeria Luiselli
3.81
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a fa… read more
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"Mouths open to the sun, they sleep."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Ağızlarını güneşe doğru açmış, uyuyorlar."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Our mother teach us to speak, and the world teaches us to shut up."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Perhaps no one really knows us who does not know the way we laugh."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
18. 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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"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
19. Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection
By: Junji Ito
4.23
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
FRESH NIGHTMARES BROUGHT TO YOU BY HORROR MASTER JUNJI ITO. Countless tombstones stand in rows, … read more
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20. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
21. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
22. 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
23. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
24. I'm Afraid of Men
By: Vivek Shraya
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more
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- feminism
- queer
- lgbt
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
25. The Safekeep
By: Yael van der Wouden
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
26. Hit Parade of Tears
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.43
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more
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"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears
27. Sontag: Her Life and Work
By: Benjamin Moser
4.21
Format: 832 pages, ebook
The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing a… read more
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- feminism
- queer
- lgbt
28. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
By: Neema Avashia
4.26
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “T… read more
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- lgbt
29. If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
By: Blythe Baird
4.36
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and tri… read more
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- feminism
- queer
- lgbt
"Remember: you did the best you could in the situation you were in with the materials you had."-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
"Even though trauma has a way of becoming the wallpaper of my head, watch me drag the art out of my suffering. Watch me plant seeds down my spine and bloom into a garden of poetry from every horrible …"-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)
30. Selected Poems: 1950-2012
By: Adrienne Rich
4.24
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Sixty years of poems from pioneering writer, activist, and intellectual Adrienne Rich―“the Blake of… read more
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31. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
