Solve for Desire
By: Caitlin Bailey
4.17
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award A debut collection of poems that finds fertile ground in the …
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1. Serious Concerns
By: Wendy Cope
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more
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"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
2. Woman at Point Zero
By: Nawal El Saadawi , Sherif Hetata
4.19
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells o… read more
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"Who said to kill does not require gentleness?"-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"Ada baiknya bahwa saya tetap awam terhadap kenyataan itu."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"Sastra yang baik selalu merupakan cermin sebuah masyarakat."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
3. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
4. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
5. The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
By: Marie Howe
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide… read more
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- poetry
6. Bone Map: Poems
By: Martha Collins , Sara Eliza Johnson
3.54
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection, Bone Map(2013 National Poetry Seri… read more
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7. Mating
By: Norman Rush
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more
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8. 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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9. What the Living Do: Poems
By: Marie Howe
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more
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10. In Mad Love and War
By: Joy Harjo
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Joy Harjo is a powerful voice for her Creek (Muscogee) tribe ("a stolen people in a stolen land"), … read more
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11. Faithful and Virtuous Night
By: Louise Glück
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more
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12. Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems
By: Kim Addonizio
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A lyrically intense fifth collection from "one of the nation's most provocative and edgy poets" (Sa… read more
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13. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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14. blud
By: Rachel McKibbens
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
McKibbens's blud is a collection of dark, rhythmic poems interested in the ways in which inherited … read more
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15. 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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16. Lucky Wreck
By: Ada Limon
3.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. Ada Limon's fir… read more
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17. Simple Passion
By: Annie Ernaux
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more
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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
18. 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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19. 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.
20. The Fox Wife
By: Yangsze Choo
4.01
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more
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"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
21. 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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22. 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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23. Bluest Nude: Poems
By: Ama Codjoe
4.48
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated de… read more
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24. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
25. Soft Science
By: Franny Choi
3.93
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more
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"having been hurt before"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"fiended; fell for another"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"it's too late to stop smiling."-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
26. Dayspring
By: Anthony Oliveira
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of bibli… read more
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"when god died he died whimpering"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"the fox has a den and the bird has a nest only humans go homeless"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted..."-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
"saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows"-Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring
27. Content Warning: Everything
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.94
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more
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28. Return Flight
By: Jennifer Huang
4.04
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is … read more
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29. In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive
By: Clementine von Radics
3.79
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
A lyrical poet, Clementine von Radics presents In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive, a collection o… read more
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"I am afraid I will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again."-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive
"There is a better version of this story where we both leave him. Instead of loving him so much it felt like church. Building a cathedral inside his crooked mouth."-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive
30. A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire (Glimmer Falls, #3)
By: Sarah Hawley
3.99
Format: 444 pages, ebook
Ben Rosewood never meant to be bound to a vampire succubus, especially one as sexy-yet-terrifying a… read more
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31. Solve for Desire
By: Caitlin Bailey
4.17
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award A debut collection of poems that finds fertile ground in the … read more
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