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…
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1. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- the united states of america
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
2. 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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"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
3. 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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- audiobook
- poetry
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- the united states of america
"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
4. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"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
5. 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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"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)
6. Woman Without Shame: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- the united states of america
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. 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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- race
- nonfiction
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"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
8. 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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- race
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
"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
9. 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
- american history
- race
- memoir
- the united states of america
- westerns
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
10. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
11. 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
- audiobook
12. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
By: Joy Harjo
4.34
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
13. Judas Goat: Poems
By: Gabrielle Bates
4.21
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more
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14. 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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- poetry
- race
- audiobook
"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
15. 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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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. 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
17. Poukahangatus: Poems
By: Tayi Tibble
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more
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- audiobook
18. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
19. Tripas: Poems
By: Brandon Som
3.95
Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poet… read more
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- nonfiction
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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- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Chrome Valley: Poems
By: Mahogany L. Browne
4.16
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne’s Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
"you ain’t had freedom / ’til you climb on bus 62 / & head to the closest mall / for a good seat at the girl fight."-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems
"give me my mother’s bone structure / & her gap tooth slaughter / give me her spine—Redbone got a spine for the world."-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems
