Staying Right Here
By: Usman Hameedi
4.19
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Usman Hameedi’s debut collection, Staying Right Here, is a journey in finding home. Hameedi invites…
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.21
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more
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"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
3. Application for Release from the Dream: Poems
By: Tony Hoagland
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The eagerly awaited, brilliant, and engaging new poems by Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism … read more
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4. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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5. This Way to the Sugar
By: Hieu Minh Nguyen
3.80
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A Midwest Asian-American poet beautifully captures the queer American experience. This bruising col… read more
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6. 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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- poetry
7. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
8. 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
9. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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10. Woman Without Shame: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more
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- memoir
11. 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
12. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky
By: Rudy Francisco
4.64
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With … read more
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13. Stones: Poems
By: Kevin Young
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one o… read more
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14. Bread and Circus
By: Airea Dee Matthews
4.27
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
“Discerning and significant.” — Poetry Foundation “A sharp memoir in verse.” — LitHub This powe… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
15. 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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16. Persephone Made Me Do It
By: Trista Mateer
4.21
Format: 176 pages, ebook
Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another mythical a… read more
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17. Sweet Sin (Monsters & Muses, #0.5)
By: Sav R. Miller
3.84
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
From USA Today bestselling author Sav R. Miller comes a steamy Promises and Pomegranates prequel ab… read more
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18. Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more
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- memoir
19. I Will Destroy You: Poems
By: Nick Flynn
3.87
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The newest collection from Nick Flynn, whose “songs of experience hum with immediacy” (The New York… read more
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20. Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
By: Rachel Wiley
3.99
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Revenge Body is a poetry collection that explores anger (righteous and not), black identity, body i… read more
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"water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle"-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)
21. Born in a Second Language
By: Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie
4.04
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Born in a Second Language troubles the spectrum between silence (or the limitations of the mouth) a… read more
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22. I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems
By: Sabrina Benaim
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time, a collection exploring loneliness, anxie… read more
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- memoir
23. Fat Girl Finishing School
By: Rachel Wiley
4.24
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
“Fat girls of the world will find their voice through Wiley’s brilliance, and we all owe her for th… read more
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24. Ephemera
By: Sierra DeMulder
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
If every experience lasted forever and the sands of time never interrupted our most loving moments,… read more
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25. Not Here
By: Hieu Minh Nguyen
4.33
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American bod… read more
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26. Butcher
By: Natasha T. Miller
4.16
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Butcher is a book about love & loss — about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha… read more
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27. Urbanshee
By: Siaara Freeman
4.16
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Urbanshee is Siaara Freeman's retelling of fairy tales and mythological stories through a modern an… read more
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"After the funeral, I see him everywhere. Every time a man is shot in the head. I see him between the couch cushions. The blunt’s end, in Jamaica drinking a Red Stripe on a patch of grass, in a backya…"-Siaara Freeman, Urbanshee
"I thought about having a child, naming it after you. Then I realized that child would never know its namesake & that it’s not fair to want someone just because you want someone else. Instead I named …"-Siaara Freeman, Urbanshee
28. Toy Gun (Button Poetry)
By: Matt Coonan
4.14
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
In Toy Gun , Matt fires his offbeat childhood and adolescence at the page. He enters each exit woun… read more
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29. Staying Right Here
By: Usman Hameedi
4.19
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Usman Hameedi’s debut collection, Staying Right Here, is a journey in finding home. Hameedi invites… read more
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30. Piñata Theory
By: Alan Chazaro
4.70
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Cante Jundo, or “Deep Song,” is what Garcia Lorca called poetry attached to the rhythms and waves o… read more
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31. A Peculiar People: Poems
By: Steven Willis
4.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A Peculiar People creates an entire microcosm within these poems. Steven Willis crafts an entire ca… read more
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