The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void
By: Jackie Wang
3.83
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflower’s many dream guises―its evolving symbolism in literatu…
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1. Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
By: Shunryu Suzuki , None , Mel Weitsman , Michæl Wenger
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mindwas published in 1972, it was enthusiastically… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Mucus In My Pineal Gland
By: Juliana Huxtable
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
If real power begins where secrecy begins, then, as we frantically search for dick pics of Justin B… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
3. The Letters of Mina Harker
By: Dennis Cooper , Dodie Bellamy
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
In Dodie Bellamy's imagined "sequel" to Bram Stoker's fin de siecle masterpiece Dracula, Van Helsin… read more
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- queer
4. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more
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5. Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
By: Hélène Cixous , Susan Sellers
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
"Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing" is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration o… read more
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6. Chelsea Girls
By: Eileen Myles
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more
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7. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
8. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
By: Sophia Giovannitti
4.07
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more
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- nonfiction
9. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
10. 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
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"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
11. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
12. 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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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"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
13. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"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)
14. The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void
By: Jackie Wang
3.83
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflower’s many dream guises―its evolving symbolism in literatu… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- collections
- nonfiction
- bisexual
- queer
15. 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
16. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
17. 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
- queer
- lgbt
"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
18. Darryl
By: Jackie Ess
4.03
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western Oregon, a beautiful wife… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
19. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
20. Mirror Nation
By: Don Mee Choi
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly… read more
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- poetry
21. How It Works Out
By: Myriam Lacroix
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
