Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c…
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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- poetry
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
- contemporary
"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
3. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
- contemporary
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
4. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
5. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- romance
- poetry
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
6. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
7. 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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- queer
- contemporary
8. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more
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9. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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10. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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- romance
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
11. Felicity
By: Mary Oliver
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more
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12. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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13. 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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14. Bloodsport
By: Yves Olade
3.84
Format: 32 pages, ebook
we say sacrifice / we mean murder / our lips are red for a reason read more
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15. 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
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
16. Caffeine
By: Steven Bruce
4.57
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Caffeine is an intimate and evocative collection of poetry encompassed by the thoughts that keep us… read more
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- poetry
"We drift apart from each other until we are so alone the ache becomes routine."-Steven Bruce, Caffeine
"And night comes with a gentle storm to permeate the conduits of my blood. And shy rain whispers your name."-Steven Bruce, Caffeine
"All of us wild and fighting for our lives. In the fragrant wilderness of this blue night, my heart sings along with the other nocturnal beasts."-Steven Bruce, Caffeine
17. White Knuckle
By: Steven Bruce
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
White Knuckle is Steven Bruce's poignant debut poetry collection, providing a stark autobiographica… read more
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- poetry
"Our scars are a testament that we arrived at the battle."-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
"Strength comes, not in the grip, but the opening of the hand."-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
"We are not the ashes of our past, but embers burning towards a future fire."-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
18. Fugue for Other Hands
By: Joseph Fasano
4.73
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The debut poetry collection by Joseph Fasano, Fugue for Other Hands won the 2011 Cider Press Review… read more
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- poetry
19. Lie With Me
By: Philippe Besson
4.26
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more
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- romance
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me
20. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
21. 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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- poetry
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"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
