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…
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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. Slow Lightning
By: Eduardo C. Corral
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such dis… read more
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3. Look
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.16
Format: 84 pages,
*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more
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4. Unaccompanied
By: Javier Zamora
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-butto… read more
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5. The Moths and Other Stories
By: Helena María Viramontes
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Fiction. THE MOTHS AND OTHER STORIES, Helena Maria Viramontes' stories exploring women's struggles … 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. Sympathetic Little Monster
By: Cameron Awkward-Rich
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Through a combination of lyric, narrative, & fractu… read more
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8. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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9. 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
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. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
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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. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
16. Trace Evidence: Poems
By: Charif Shanahan
3.95
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more
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17. 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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18. Brute: Poems
By: Emily Skaja
4.03
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more
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"unfull but full of loathing"-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"I know what to do with the dark."-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems
19. Pig: Poems
By: Sam Sax
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more
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20. Burying the Mountain
By: Shangyang Fang
4.18
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult… read more
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21. Theophanies
By: Sarah Ghazal Ali
4.46
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more
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23. Field Music
By: Alexandria Hall
3.81
Format: 128 pages, ebook
A collection of poetry from the 2019 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Rosanna Warr… read more
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24. Master (The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry)
By: Simon Shieh
4.41
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes. The debut coll… read more
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25. Cenzontle
By: Marcelo Hernández Castillo
4.18
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In this lyrical, imagistic debut, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo creates a nuanced narrative of life be… read more
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"Each pepper field is the same. In each one I am a failed anthem. I don't know English but there is so little that needs translated out here."-Marcelo Hernández Castillo, Cenzontle
26. The Nightfields (Penguin Poets)
By: Joanna Klink
4.45
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A WASHINGTON POST BEST POETRY COLLECTION OF 2020 A new collection from a poet whose books "are a… read more
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27. banana [ ] (Pitt Poetry Series)
By: Paul Hlava Ceballos
4.63
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The poems in Paul Hlava Ceballos’s debut collection banana [ ] reveal the extractive relationship t… read more
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28. Particles of a Stranger Light
By: Anthony Sutton
4.94
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
“Anthony Sutton’s debut book is haunted by the old, existential question no one has yet been able t… read more
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29. Lying In: Poems
By: Elizabeth Metzger
3.93
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief. “A… read more
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30. 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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31. 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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