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Nothing Burns as Bright as You
Five starred reviews!From New York Times bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You is an impassioned stand-alone tale of queer love, grief, and the complexity of female friendship.Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a...- $18.99
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Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
WINNER, 2024 BEAT STUDIES ASSOCIATION AWARDSA revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century. Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem "Howl" opens with one of the...- $34.95
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Trinity Street: Poems
Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from poet Jen Currin, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda finalist. While Trinity Street is in fact an actual street in Vancouver, it is also the site of...- $19.99
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Firebird
Energetic, formally audacious poems by a recently rediscovered Polish writer, shining examples of art as resistance. Zuzanna Ginczanka's last poem, "Non omnis moriar..." ("Not all of me shall die"), written shortly before her execution by the Nazis in the last months of World War...- $14.95
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Besiege Me
A new collection six years after Nicholas Wong won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, BESIEGE ME opens with a timely mocking tone that confronts the tension between China and Hong Kong. Poems in the book speak queerly of urban existences crushed by...- $18.00
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Motion Sickness: Poetry, Prose, and Sociopolitical Essays
After exploring the arts and spoken word worlds of her native Chicago and the US East Coast, award-winning journalist, poet, and dreamer Clara Rose Thornton visited Germany for what was supposed to be three idyllic months of writing and rest. What followed was nearly...- $19.95
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Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life
A no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could "give the dead a voice, make them sing" (Hilton Als, The New Yorker). Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was...- $45.00
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Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
An extraordinary listening experience! Hear Nikki Giovanni read from her newest collection of poems!One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own...- $19.99
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Hijra
In her third poetry collection, Hijra, Hala Alyan creates poems of migration and flight reflecting and bearing witness to the haunting particulars in her transnational journey as well as those of her mother, her aunts, and the female ancestors in Gaza and Syria. The...- $16.95
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American Equations in Black Classical Music
A new collection that is a testament to the power of poetry as a vehicle for introspection, social commentary, and artistic expression. With its evocative verses and resonant themes, American Equations in Black Classical Music invites readers on a transformative journey through the melodic...- $25.00
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The Tradition
WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRYFinalist for the 2019 National Book Award"100 Notable Books of the Year," The New York Times Book ReviewOne Book, One Philadelphia Citywide Reading Program Selection, 2021"By some literary magic—no, it's precision, and honesty—Brown manages to bestow upon...- $17.00
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Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era (Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry)
Shirley Temple tap dancing at the Kiwanis Club, Stevie Nicks glaring at Lindsey Buckingham during a live version of “Silver Springs,” Frank Ocean lyrics staking new territory on the page: this is a taste of the cultural landscape sampled in Your New Feeling is...- $15.95
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Brocken Spectre: Today's Best Practices for Profit, Customer Retention, and a Happy Workplace
Set in San Francisco, Brocken Spectre examines the way the past presses up against the present. The speaker, raised in the wake of the AIDS crisis, engages with ideas of belatedness, of looking back to a past that cannot be inhabited, of the ethics...- $18.95
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More Sure
A book of poems and augmentations, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives. In their stunning debut collection, A. Light Zachary draws power from a vision of life?especially queer and neurodivergent life?as a journey of continuous self-realization. These poems...- $17.95
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a "Working Life"
From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection of expansive, light-footed, and cheerfully foreboding poems oddly in tune with our strange and evolving presentThe first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and...- $26.00
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Year of the Unicorn Kidz
Jason B. Crawford's Year of the Unicorn Kidz beautifully explores existence on the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality. Their profound navigation of identity, violence, and desire transcends boundaries and binaries. Vulnerability takes the centre stage as the speaker of these descriptive and passionate...- $16.00
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Lily-livered
Wren Hanks' Lily-Livered is a stunning portrayal of trans experiences, mixing deft prose poetry and lush lyricism to profound effect.Wren Hanks' new collection is a lyrical and narrative masterpiece, examining his own trans experiences against the larger context of difficult-to-navigate modern world.Told primarily in...- $7.99
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Post
Leo Herrera's debut book "Post" is a collection of poems, lectures, prayers and grudges. In 2020, amidst the uncertainty of COVID-19, Herrera's voice emerged as a source of comfort, clarity, and difficult truths. Originally presented as "meme essays" on social media, Herrera's densely-written posts...- $20.00
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Coal
Of Coal, the poet and critic Hayden Carruth said, "For us these words indeed are jewels in the open light."Coal is one of the earliest collections of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral...- $16.95
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Roman Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Italian Edition)
The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet—the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century.His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his...- $14.95
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