Balladz
By: Sharon Olds
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for…
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1. The Rain in Portugal: New Poems
By: Billy Collins
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly f… read more
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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. Storm's Heart (Elder Races, #2)
By: Thea Harrison
3.94
Format: 305 pages, Mass Market Paperback
He's a Wyr warrior, a god of storms. She's the heir to the Dark Fae throne. But desire will bring b… read more
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"You’re not as sexy as I think you are."-Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart (Elder Races, #2)
"Oh, I don’t want to pat you on the head, faerie,"-Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart (Elder Races, #2)
"Don’t pull that manipulative sex kitten shit on me"-Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart (Elder Races, #2)
"Only one person," he whispered to her. "Only one thing."-Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart (Elder Races, #2)
4. 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
"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
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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"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
"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. From From: Poems
By: Monica Youn
4.18
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more
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- poetry
8. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more
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- poetry
"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
9. 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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10. Musical Tables: Poems
By: Billy Collins
3.79
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more
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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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12. Balladz
By: Sharon Olds
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for… read more
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- poetry
13. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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14. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
15. 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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"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
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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17. Best Barbarian: Poems
By: Roger Reeves
4.10
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more
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18. 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
"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
19. Catching the Light (Why I Write)
By: Joy Harjo
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant point… read more
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"Eventually, we all make it home, and we each make an individual path by any means."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
"We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us to the hells of destruction."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
"The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
"When she broke on Earth, the light in her was not broken. We cannot break light, nor can we destroy it."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
20. 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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21. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
