Imperial Liquor: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Amaud Johnson
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Finalist, 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, 2021 Rilke Prize Imperial Liquor is a…
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1. The Boat of Quiet Hours: Poems
By: Jane Kenyon
4.18
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Jane Kenyon (1947 – 1995) was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as s… read more
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- poetry
2. Seam (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
By: Tarfia Faizullah
4.47
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The poems in this captivating collection weave beauty with violence, the personal with the historic… read more
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"Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito" —at Apollo Hospital, Dhaka Let me break free of these lace-frail lilac fingers disrobing the black sky from the windows of this room, I sit helpless, waiti…"-Tarfia Faizullah, Seam (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
3. 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
4. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- race
5. 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
6. Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
By: James Baldwin
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only avail… read more
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- poetry
- race
7. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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8. Madness
By: Sam Sax
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Ser… read more
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9. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- race
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
10. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
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- poetry
11. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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- race
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
12. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)
By: Rio Cortez
4.02
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more
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- race
13. 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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- race
14. The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
3.71
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more
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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though it has to meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
15. Customs: Poems
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more
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16. Judas Goat: Poems
By: Gabrielle Bates
4.21
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more
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- poetry
17. Mothman Apologia
By: Robert Wood Lynn
4.52
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and comi… read more
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18. Soft Science
By: Franny Choi
3.93
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more
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"having been hurt before"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"fiended; fell for another"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"it's too late to stop smiling."-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
19. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- poetry
20. In the House in the Dark of the Woods
By: Laird Hunt
3.33
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." In this ingenious h… read more
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21. Theophanies
By: Sarah Ghazal Ali
4.46
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more
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22. I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Tiana Clark
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be j… read more
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- race
"You have to make love to the damage in your mind."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
"Something in your past wants to be touched, healed."-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
"This is the restless cardboard box I carry from room to room, house to house filled with papers I do not know how to sort. How do you separate trash from trash? Everything looks like something else-s…"-Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series)
23. Monument: Poems New and Selected
By: Natasha Trethewey
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Urgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and select poems drawing upon Domestic Work, Belloc… read more
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- race
"Always there is something more to know"-Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected
"What does it mean to be safe in the world?"-Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected
"Now the house is a museum of everything she can't let go"-Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected
"I begin to see our lives are like this--we take what we need of light."-Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected
24. Fruit (Volume 1) (Wisconsin Poetry Series)
By: Bruce Snider
4.62
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Bruce Snider’s third poetry collection grapples with what it means to be childless in a world obses… read more
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25. Be Recorder: Poems
By: Carmen Giménez
3.95
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Carmen Giménez Smith dares to demand renewal for a world made unrecognizable Be Recorder offers … read more
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26. Divine Ratios: Poems
By: Jacqueline Osherow
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The reach of is global, ranging from Tang Dynasty China and the Florentine Renaissance to contempor… read more
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27. Ante body
By: Marwa Helal
4.38
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
An incisive poetic sequence that tracks the relationship between migration and complex traumas in t… read more
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28. Exiles of Eden
By: Ladan Osman
4.11
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Exiles of Eden looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exp… read more
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29. Bluff: Poems
By: Danez Smith
4.53
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more
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30. Imperial Liquor: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Amaud Johnson
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Finalist, 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, 2021 Rilke Prize Imperial Liquor is a… read more
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31. Relinquenda: Poems (National Poetry Series)
By: Alexandra Regalado
4.25
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A 4-part poetry collection that explores women’s roles in familial dynamics, immigration, and El Sa… read more
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