Natch (City Lights Spotlight, No. 20)
By: Sophia Dahlin
4.27
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
In her first full-length collection, Natch, Sophia Dahlin fashions a dazzling array of queer pastor…
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1. Meditations in an Emergency
By: Frank O'Hara
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclai… read more
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- poetry
- american
2. Love Poems
By: Pablo Neruda , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel… read more
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- poetry
3. Poems 1962-2012
By: Louise Glück
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Even when collected, Louise Gluck's poetry resists collection. With each successive book her drive … read more
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- poetry
- american
4. 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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- poetry
5. Written on the Body
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. … read more
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- queer
6. 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
- american
- queer
7. The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers
By: Bhanu Kapil
4.75
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Asian American Studies. THE VERTICAL INTERROGATION OF STRANGERS blends the narratives of th… read more
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8. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
9. Dancer from the Dance
By: Andrew Holleran
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more
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10. Kiss of the Spider Woman
By: Manuel Puig
4.01
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more
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- queer
"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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"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
14. 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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- poetry
"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
15. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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- queer
16. Y/N
By: Esther Yi
2.95
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more
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"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."-Esther Yi, Y/N
"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
17. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
18. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
19. 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
20. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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- queer
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
21. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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22. Revenge of the Scapegoat
By: Caren Beilin
3.44
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed le… read more
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- american
23. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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24. Laura's Desires
By: Laura Henriksen
4.68
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Laura’s Desires is a diptych of two formally distinct long poems, each approaching various pop-cult… read more
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- poetry
25. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
By: torrin a. greathouse
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more
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- poetry
- queer
26. Bee Reaved
By: Dodie Bellamy
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A new collection of essays from Dodie Bellamy on disenfranchisement, vulgarity, American working-cl… read more
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27. Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
By: Jackie Wang
4.39
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, … read more
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- poetry
28. A Sand Book
By: Ariana Reines
4.13
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A Sand Book is a poetry collection in nine parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hu… read more
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- poetry
29. Togetherness
By: Wo Chan
4.17
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from… read more
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- queer
30. Natch (City Lights Spotlight, No. 20)
By: Sophia Dahlin
4.27
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
In her first full-length collection, Natch, Sophia Dahlin fashions a dazzling array of queer pastor… read more
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- american
- queer
31. My Lesbian Novel
By: Renee Gladman
4.27
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
In both her writing and her visual art, Renee Gladman is a brilliant investigator of life, always p… read more
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