Wail Song: or wading in the water at the end of the world
By: Chaun Webster
4.65
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Wail or wading in the water at the end of the world is a multi-form long poem that offers an exten…
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1. A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
By: Shannon Gibney , None , David Grant , Kao Kalia Yang , Sun Yung Shin , Taiyon Coleman , Heid E. Erdrich , None , Carolyn Holbrook , None , Andrea Jenkins , None , None , Sherry Quan Lee , David Mura , Bao Phi , None
4.48
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A 2020 selection of One Book, One Minnesota! "Reading this book in community offers some Minnesota… read more
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"So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your crimes."-Shannon Gibney, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
"Tell me the truth of the matter. When I don't understand, I will not protest or judge or correct, I will simply listen harder. I am here to recognize you as my fellow human being with a story."-Shannon Gibney, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
"Before America, I was not Black. I was not adrift in a sea of White that I constantly had to come to terms with, against which my very humanity is measured--by Whites, Blacks, the world, and even mys…"-Shannon Gibney, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
"Before moving to America, I did not see the world through a "Black" lens...We had doctors, teachers, wealthy men. Indeed, we had successful men of all stripes. We did not have Black doctors, Black bu…"-Shannon Gibney, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
2. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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3. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more
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4. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
(1939 translation) read more
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5. Awake
By: Dorianne Laux , Philip Levine
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
First published in 1990 and now back in print, this much sought-after collection marked the stunnin… read more
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6. Playing It Safe (Electra McDonnell, #3)
By: Ashley Weaver
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
As the Blitz continues to ravage London, Ellie McDonnell—formerly a safecracking thief, but current… read more
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7. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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8. Ain't Burned All the Bright
By: Jason Reynolds
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerall… read more
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"What is life in a house underwater?"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and freedom to play without worry about the rules being rearranged"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and she wipes weary from her eyes still glued to the no-good glued to the high definition glare of low-definition life"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about h…"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
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. 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
11. A Fragile Enchantment
By: Allison Saft
3.53
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical … read more
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"You're like a pint-sized hurricane of earnestness and good cheer."-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment
"it's not meaningful to kill yourself little by little to make people happy!"-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment
12. 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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13. A Council of Dolls
By: Mona Susan Power
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more
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"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
14. 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
15. Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco
By: K. Iver
4.59
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr P… read more
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16. Extasia
By: Claire Legrand
3.53
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Her name is unimportant. All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints … read more
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17. About Ed
By: Robert Glück
3.73
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
A moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come o… read more
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18. The Palace of Forty Pillars
By: Armen Davoudian
4.02
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant and deft and heartfelt."―Richie Hofmann Wry, tender, and formally innovative, Armen Davo… read more
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19. Hydra Medusa
By: Brandon Shimoda
4.45
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in t… read more
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20. Palm-Lined with Potience
By: Basie Allen
4.44
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
PALM-LINED WITH POTIENCE is New York City poet and visual artist Basie Allen's debut collection of … read more
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21. Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
By: Akil Kumarasamy
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens… read more
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"The refugees continued to cross the sea and we tried to map out the violence, the peaks and the falls, through time. When does a war begin? Is it with a public declaration broadcast in the morning ho…"-Akil Kumarasamy, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
22. Bianca (Stahlecker Selections)
By: Eugenia Leigh
4.65
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
“I thought I forgave you,” Eugenia Leigh tells the specter of her father in Bianca. “Then I took ro… read more
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23. Return
By: Emily Lee Luan
4.26
Format: 97 pages, Paperback
Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorr… read more
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24. Pleasure Principle: Poems
By: Madeleine Cravens
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth. In her stunning debu… read more
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25. The Wet Hex
By: Sun Yung Shin
4.01
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Sun Yung Shin leads her readers into the underworld, a witchy Garden of Eden where death blooms in … read more
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26. In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Abigail Chabitnoy
4.20
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A poetic re-visioning of narratives of violence against women and nature In the Current Where Drow… read more
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27. Savage Pageant
By: Jessica Q. Stark
4.63
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Savage Pageant recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed Hollywood's show a… read more
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28. Wail Song: or wading in the water at the end of the world
By: Chaun Webster
4.65
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Wail or wading in the water at the end of the world is a multi-form long poem that offers an exten… read more
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29. The Rendering
By: Anthony Cody
4.42
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A poetry collection that considers climate change and the possibility of wholeness within the Anthr… read more
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30. Silk Poems
By: Jen Bervin
4.18
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
In conjunction with Tufts University's Silk Lab's cutting-edge research on liquified silk, Jen Berv… read more
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31. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
