Gravitas
By: Amy Berkowitz
4.75
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Frank, conversational, and darkly funny, Gravitas examines the tendency of MFA programs to teach wo…
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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more
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"I'm having a crisis of function."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"None of us will make it to the end."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
2. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
3. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.… read more
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5. 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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6. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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7. A Visit from the Goon Squad
By: Jennifer Egan
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more
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8. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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9. Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
By: Ada Calhoun
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A staggering memoir from New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relation… read more
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10. 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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11. Punks: New & Selected Poems
By: John Keene
4.26
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John … read more
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12. Slug and Other Stories
By: Megan Milks
3.95
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls i… read more
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13. 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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14. Grief Sequence
By: Prageeta Sharma
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Offering a series of poems rooted in the profoundly narrative yet disorienting experience of losing… read more
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15. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By: T. Fleischmann
4.01
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more
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"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
16. Milkweed Smithereens
By: Bernadette Mayer
3.68
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A career-spanning bouquet of poems by the peerless and inimitable Bernadette Mayer Milkweed Smither… read more
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17. The Best Possible Experience: Stories
By: Nishanth Injam
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR • An emotionally rich collection of short stories, painting a f… read more
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18. Toska
By: Alina Pleskova
4.57
Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition
Toska explores a sense of rootlessness and a sort of anti-nationalism; how the pervasive sense of b… read more
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19. Bedroom Vowel
By: Zoe Tuck
4.93
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
Consisting of lyric love letters to friends and musings on daily desire, nostalgia, and thirst for … read more
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20. Gravitas
By: Amy Berkowitz
4.75
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Frank, conversational, and darkly funny, Gravitas examines the tendency of MFA programs to teach wo… read more
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21. Ablation
By: Danika Stegeman
5.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Ablation is an elegy to Stegeman's mom, who died in 2020, and, simultaneously, a love letter to Ste… read more
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