If You Have to Go
By: Katie Ford
4.04
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The poems in Katie Ford’s fourth collection implore their audience―the divine and the human―for att…
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1. Dream Work
By: Mary Oliver
4.35
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more
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"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
2. Sharks in the Rivers
By: Ada Limon
3.95
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more
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- poetry
3. The Crown Ain't Worth Much
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
3.69
Format: 192 pages,
The Crown Ain t Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib s first full-length collection, is a sharp and … read more
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- poetry
4. Dancing in Odessa
By: Ilya Kaminsky
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky … read more
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- poetry
5. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
6. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
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7. Rose
By: Li-Young Lee , Gerald Stern
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this outstanding first book of poems, Lee is unafraid to show emotion, especially when writing a… read more
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. She Had Some Horses
By: Joy Harjo
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this powerful collection of poetry, Creek Indian Joy Harjo explores womanhood's most intimate mo… read more
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12. Insomnia: Poems
By: Linda Pastan
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
These poems chart the journeys of sleepless nights when whole lifetimes seem to pass with their sto… read more
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13. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
By: Harrison Scott Key
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more
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"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
14. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
15. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
16. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
By: Joshua Robinson
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more
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"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
17. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By: Hwang Bo-Reum
4.02
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more
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"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
18. 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
19. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
By: Russ Ramsey
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we un… read more
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"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
20. 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
21. Poet Warrior: A Memoir
By: Joy Harjo
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this co… read more
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"Our physical living is held together by plant sacrifice. We eat, wear, and are sheltered by plants and plant material. Nearly all of our medicines are plant-derived. We need to take time with them, g…"-Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir
22. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
23. Customs: Poems
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more
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24. 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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25. Magical Negro
By: Morgan Parker
4.31
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnog… read more
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26. The Court of No Record: Poems
By: Jenny Molberg
4.65
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Jenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record , serves as both evidence and te… read more
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27. 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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28. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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29. Wound Is the Origin of Wonder: Poems
By: Maya C. Popa
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
“This book is an astonishment. In ravishing, formally exploratory poems, Maya C. Popa wields the ly… read more
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30. All Souls: Poems
By: Saskia Hamilton
3.68
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
In All Souls , Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the… read more
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31. If You Have to Go
By: Katie Ford
4.04
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The poems in Katie Ford’s fourth collection implore their audience―the divine and the human―for att… read more
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