All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
By: Paul Tran
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of …
Want to Read $ 10.99"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
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1. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
2. 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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3. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- contemporary
- queer
4. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- contemporary
- queer
"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
5. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- contemporary
- queer
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
6. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
7. Girls That Never Die: Poems
By: Safia Elhillo
4.30
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems
8. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
By: Paul Tran
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- gay
- lgbt
- transgender
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- queer
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
9. 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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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
10. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
"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
11. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)
By: Rio Cortez
4.02
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. The Trees Witness Everything
By: Victoria Chang
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
13. 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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- poetry
- queer
- gay
- lgbt
- audiobook
14. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
15. A Hundred Lovers: Poems
By: Richie Hofmann
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly a… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- gay
- lgbt
- queer lit
- queer
16. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- race
- gay
- lgbt
- queer
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
17. Dream of the Divided Field: Poems
By: Yanyi .
3.75
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercin… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
18. Rupture Tense
By: Jenny Xie
3.91
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorke… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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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- audiobook
- poetry
- transgender
- lgbt
- queer
20. The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets)
By: Su Cho
3.83
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about i… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
By: torrin a. greathouse
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- queer