Body Count
By: Kyla Jamieson
4.11
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this vital début, Kyla Jamieson sifts through the raw material of her life before and after a di…
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1. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
By: Warsan Shire
4.25
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more
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- poetry
"Her body is one long sigh."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
2. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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- poetry
- mental health
"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
3. Power Politics
By: Margaret Atwood
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Margaret Atwood's Power Politicsfirst appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance… read more
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- poetry
- canada
4. Bone
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the… read more
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- poetry
5. What Narcissism Means to Me
By: Tony Hoagland
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
An eagerly awaited new collection of poems by contemporary favorite Tony Hoagland, author of Donkey… read more
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6. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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7. War of the Foxes
By: Richard Siken
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more
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8. 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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9. Life on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.45
Format: 122 pages,
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more
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10. 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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- poetry
"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
11. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
By: Sarah Polley
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more
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- canada
- mental health
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
12. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.28
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Kate Baer returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers… read more
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- poetry
- mental health
"I wanted art / poetry was hidden in so much in so many ways"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
"women want to live without fear For thousands of years We were not believed this is what we carry"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
"You were designed to find satisfaction in your excellence Your nature cannot be retrofitted to the male without permanent damage to the original design"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
13. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- poetry
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
14. 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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- poetry
- mental health
"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
15. Butter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more
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- canada
"Death is only a doorway."-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
16. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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- canada
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
17. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
18. 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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"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
19. The Story of Us
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more
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- canada
20. 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
21. Ruined
By: Sarah Vaughn
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Bridgerton comes a Regency-era romance graphic novel about the unexpected passion that … read more
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22. 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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- poetry
- mental health
"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)
23. Life of the Party
By: Olivia Gatwood
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalize… read more
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"Some things are more a feeling than they are a memory."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"The truth is: It is a privilege to have your body looked for."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"I want to know what it means to survive something. does it just mean I get to keep my body?"-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
24. Good Grief, the Ground
By: Margaret Ray
4.48
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Margaret Ray is pulling back the curtains on our societal performance of culture, guiding an exposi… read more
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25. Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems
By: Dorianne Laux
4.39
Format: 167 pages, Hardcover
Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemp… read more
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26. Twenty-Ninth Year
By: Hala Alyan
3.91
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more
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"We inherit everything. Especially questions."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
27. Odes to Lithium
By: Shira Erlichman
4.36
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable debut, Shira Erlichman pens a love letter to Lithium, her medication for Bipolar… read more
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- disability
- mental health
28. Corazón
By: Yesika Salgado
4.38
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger … read more
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"and if he loves you, what is next?"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"I am good at this / turning heart ache into a party"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"tonight I'll dance I'll be alive and ain't that worth the party?"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"I come from women who fend for themselves the blade is our friend and you? you are a weed I know how to slice you out of me"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
29. Superdoom: Selected Poems
By: Melissa Broder
3.38
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Featuring a new introduction from the author, Superdoom: Selected Poems brings together the best of… read more
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30. Body Count
By: Kyla Jamieson
4.11
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this vital début, Kyla Jamieson sifts through the raw material of her life before and after a di… read more
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31. Pricks in the Tapestry
By: Jameson Fitzpatrick
4.66
Format: None pages, None
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. This book is a record of my thinking and feeling during my mid-to-late-twe… read more
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