How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan: Poems
By: Sarah Carson
3.98
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky Editors Choice Award, a poetry collection that portrays quintesse…
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1. Archy and Mehitabel
By: Don Marquis
4.28
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This beloved illustrated classic tells the tale of Archy, a philosophical cockroach, and Mehitabel,… read more
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"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."-Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel
"you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either"-Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel
"i once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow s foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization"-Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel
"From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the h…"-Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel
2. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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3. Closer
By: Dennis Cooper
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more
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4. 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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5. Angle of Repose
By: Wallace Stegner
3.56
Format: None pages,
Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and g… read more
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6. 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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7. Buick City
By: Sarah Carson
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Told in prose poems, Buick City is a coming-of-age tale about growing up in the deindustrialized Mi… read more
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8. What Kind of Woman: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more
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"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
9. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
10. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
11. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
12. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
13. 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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"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
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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"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. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)
By: Nghi Vo
4.03
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more
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16. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
By: Nghi Vo
4.18
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ach… read more
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"Oh yes. Some people are just more . . . edible than others if you are a tiger."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
"Now your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)
17. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
18. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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19. The Trees Witness Everything
By: Victoria Chang
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more
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20. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems
By: Megan Fox
3.76
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over… read more
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21. The New Me
By: Halle Butler
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A biting satire of the false promise of reinvention, by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor… read more
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22. 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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23. Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
By: Darcie Little Badger
4.00
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice crea… read more
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"Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"It's hard to know that you're flying too high until the feathers start dropping."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"She'd say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"She's say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
24. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
25. Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems
By: Catherine Barnett
4.45
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The loneliness that collects in mirrors and faces―at bedside vigils and in city streets―quickens Ca… read more
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26. Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 170)
By: Tawanda Mulalu
3.94
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die… read more
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27. New and Selected Poems
By: Marie Howe
4.49
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An indispensable collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed … read more
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28. Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.39
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An anthology edited by acclaimed poets Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis. In 1997, Sarabande published La… read more
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29. Pagan Virtues: Poems
By: Stephen Dunn
3.93
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn returns with his signature morbid wit, intellectual daring, and … read more
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30. How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan: Poems
By: Sarah Carson
3.98
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky Editors Choice Award, a poetry collection that portrays quintesse… read more
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31. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
