semiautomatic (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Evie Shockley
4.34
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
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1. Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Sharon Olds
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Poems examine life as a child, a woman, and a mother; death; and our relationship to the world. Thi… read more
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- poetry
2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
3. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
4. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
5. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
6. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- race
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7. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
8. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.10
Format: 264 pages,
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
9. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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10. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
By: Morgan Parker
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonceuses political and pop-cultural references as a framewo… read more
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11. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
By: Milan Kundera , Aaron Asher
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the n… read more
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12. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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13. Sleeping With the Dictionary
By: Harryette Mullen
4.50
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspr… read more
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14. 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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15. Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog
By: Paul Monette
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
An eighteen-poem cycle on the death of his lover from AIDS emphasizes the power of love and its sur… read more
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16. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
17. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- nonfiction
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
18. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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19. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
20. The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void
By: Jackie Wang
3.83
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflower’s many dream guises―its evolving symbolism in literatu… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
22. Ghost Of
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.36
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more
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23. 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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24. Floaters: Poems
By: Martín Espada
4.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. … read more
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25. Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 62)
By: Tongo Eisen-Martin
4.38
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry - Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Allian… read more
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26. Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz
By: David Wojnarowicz
4.31
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
In these moments I hate language. I hate what words are like, I hate the idea of putting these pref… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
27. Spectral Evidence: Poems
By: Gregory Pardlo
4.11
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-win… read more
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28. Death Styles
By: Joyelle McSweeney
4.43
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A record of daily bewilderments and accidental concessions to hope after a momentous loss. In this … read more
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29. Horsepower: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Joy Priest
4.59
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Priest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a d… read more
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30. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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31. semiautomatic (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Evie Shockley
4.34
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
Art can't shield our bodies or stabilize the earth's climate, but Evie Shockley's semiautomatic ins… read more
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