An Atlas of the Difficult World
By: Adrienne Rich
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshot…
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1. Crossing the Water
By: Sylvia Plath
4.11
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative per… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- feminism
"ama asıl son kez yattığımda bilinecek değerim: ağaçlar dokunabilir o zaman, bana ayıracak zamanları olur çiçeklerin."-Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water
2. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"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
3. 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
- 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
4. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
5. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
6. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.21
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
7. In the Presence of Absence
By: Mahmoud Darwish , محمود درويش , Sinan Antoon
4.36
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
"Darwish is to be read with urgency, in the night, when nothing else moves but his lines." —The Vil… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- nonfiction
"هل أبتعدت لتقترب أم اقتربت لتبتعد"-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
"الحنين يكذب ولا يتعب من الكذب لأنه يكذب بصدق ."-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
"Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third."-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
"الحنين مسامرة الغائب للغائب , و التفات البعيد إلى البعيد ."-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
8. Ariel: The Restored Edition
By: Sylvia Plath , Frieda Hughes
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left beh… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- feminism
9. Thirst
By: Mary Oliver
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Thirst,a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
10. High Windows
By: Philip Larkin
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of poems which includes some of the poet's best-known pieces (The Old Fools, This Be t… read more
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- literature
- poetry
11. Erratic Facts
By: Kay Ryan
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kay Ryan--"a classic American poet" (John Freeman)--is acclaimed for her highly intelligible, deepl… read more
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- poetry
- queer
12. Wittgenstein’s Nephew
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
4.03
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, Thomas B… read more
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- literature
"Bu zaman zarfında Paul'un düşüncelerinden yoksun kalmıştım, başka başka yüzlerce, ortalaması son derece düşük çaplı kafa içinde boğulmama ramak kalmıştı, çünkü kendimizi aldatmayalım, çoğunlukla elim…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"Benimle Nathal'de avlu duvarı dibinde oturmuş, batmakta olan güneşin altında, kaç kere Paris'e, kaç kere Londra'ya, kaç kere Roma'ya gittiğinin, kaç bin şişe şampanya ictiğinin ve acaba kaç kitap oku…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"O sıralar herkes tarafından da terk edilmiştim, ben onların hepsini terk etmiştim çünkü, işin aslı bu, hiç kimseyi istemiyordum, tıpkı artık hiçbir şeyi istemeyişim ama her şeye de kendi elimle son v…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"قلت لنفسى وأنا أجلس فوق دكة فى منتزه المدينة، إن هذه ربما تكون آخر مرة أرى فيها صديقى. لم أكن اعتقد أن جسدا بهذا الوهن، خبت فيه جذوة الحياة وانطفأت شعلة الإرادة، سيتحمل أكثر من بضعة أيام. زُلزل كيانى …"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
13. An Atlas of the Difficult World
By: Adrienne Rich
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshot… read more
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- lesbian
- poetry
- lgbt
- literature
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
14. The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
By: Douglas Coupland , Hans Ulrich Obrist , Shumon Basar
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our… read more
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15. The Wings of the Dove
By: Henry James , Amy Bloom , Pierre A. Walker
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Set amid the splendor of L… read more
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16. 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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17. Transformations
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Anne Sexton , None
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose honesty and wit in the face of … read more
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18. Stag's Leap: Poems
By: Sharon Olds
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more
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19. How to Be a Victorian
By: Ruth Goodman
3.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Step into the skin of your ancestors . . . We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert, but … read more
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20. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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- literature
- poetry
"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
21. And Still I Rise
By: Maya Angelou
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this inspiring poem, Maya Angelou celebrates the courage of the human spirit over the harshest o… read more
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22. The World Doesn't End
By: Charles Simic
4.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be … read more
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23. 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
- queer
- lgbt
24. An American Sunrise
By: Joy Harjo
4.28
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
25. 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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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"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
26. 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
- feminism
- nonfiction
"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
27. Indigo
By: Ellen Bass
4.48
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Indigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- lgbt
28. 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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- lesbian
- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- queer
"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
29. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Natasha Trethewey
4.25
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot… read more
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- nonfiction
"Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it."-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"For my father, the myth of Cassandra had been just another way he sought to guide me toward what he thought I needed to know. In some versions, Cassandra's fate is that she is merely misunderstood--n…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"My whole life people have wondered "what" I am, what race or nationality. ... It's happened again and again: someone looking at me furtively, or calling me "exotic" and asking me "What's your heritag…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
30. Magdalene: Poems
By: Marie Howe
4.10
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing w…"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only …"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
31. The Shining
By: Dorothea Lasky
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky’s The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that … read more
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- poetry
