Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet
By: Michael J. Mark
4.73
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a …
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1. State of Wonder
By: Ann Patchett
3.90
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual tra… read more
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"One must not be shy where language is concerned."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"It was not as natural as it appeared. It was more like milking a cow, easy as long as someone else was doing it."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
2. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
By: Natalie Goldberg
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her b… read more
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"keep your hand moving"-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"Write about “leaving."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"Begin with “I remember."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"We learn writing by doing it."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
3. Blue Horses
By: Mary Oliver
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more
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4. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
5. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
6. 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
7. 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
8. The Morning You Saw a Train of Stars Streaking Across the Sky
By: CooXooEii Black
4.40
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner If history leaves an impression, then to be born in an Indigen… read more
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9. The Fight Journal: Poems
By: John W. Evans
4.22
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
The Fight Journal is a heartsick elegy for a failed marriage. Written in couplets that mirror the b… read more
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10. 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
11. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
12. Goldenrod: Poems
By: Maggie Smith
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more
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"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
13. How to Love Your Daughter
By: Hila Blum
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling… read more
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14. Marigold and Rose
By: Louise Glück
3.65
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more
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15. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
By: Katie Farris
4.31
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more
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17. 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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"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)
18. Cheap Motels of My Youth
By: George Bilgere
4.45
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
In Cheap Motels of My Youth, George Bilgere continues his explorations, both funny and poignant, of… read more
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19. I Will Pass Even to Acheron
By: Amanda Newell
4.11
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
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20. Imago, Dei
By: Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose
4.34
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
How does a daughter emerge whole from an upbringing saturated with religious fundamentalism? And if… read more
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21. Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet
By: Michael J. Mark
4.73
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a … read more
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