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• Homeland of My Body

  New and Selected Poems

  Blanco, Richard, 1968-

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  In this collection of over 100 poems, Richard Blanco has carefully selected poems from his previous books that represent his evolution as a writer grappling with his identity and bookended them with new poems that address those issues from a fresh,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Modern Poetry

  Poems

  Seuss, Diane,

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  In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time’s deep isolation and divisiveness and What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean? 2024 National Book Award Finalist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  Harjo, Joy

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  A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.

• Time Is a Mother

  Vuong, Ocean

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  In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it.

• Call Us What We Carry

  Poems

  Gorman, Amanda

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  The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author, first Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman. This collection explores themes of identity, grief, and memory.

• Citizen

  An American Lyric

  Rankine, Claudia, 1963-

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  Collects essays, poetry, and images that expose the racial tensions in twenty-first century life, highlighting the slights, slips of the tongue, and intentional offensives that pervade the home, school, and popular media. 2014 National Book Award…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If They Come for Us

  Poems / Fatimah Asghar

  Asghar, Fatimah,

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  This imaginative, soulful debut poetry collection captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America. Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and navigating questions of sexuality and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Above Ground

  Poems

  Smith, Clint, 1988-

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  Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world.

• If Not, Winter

  Fragments of Sappho

  Sappho

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  Critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents a dramatic translation of the poetry of Sappho, presenting all the extant fragments that exist of the ancient poet's works in both English and the original Greek and furnishing an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

  Poems

  Shire, Warsan, 1988-

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  Warsan Shire is a Somali British writer and poet born in Nairobi and raised in London. She served as the first Young Poet Laureate of London and wrote the poetry for the Peabody Award–winning visual album Lemonade in collaboration with Beyoncé…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are All So Good at Smiling

  McBride, Amber,

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  In this young adult novel-in-verse, a girl hospitalized for her clinical depression connects with a boy who suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Promises of Gold

  Promesas De Oro

  Olivarez, José,

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  A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural—is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on.

• Devotions

  the Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

  Oliver, Mary, 1935-

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  Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.

• Chrome Valley

  Poems

  Browne, Mahogany L.,

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  Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne's Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America.

• From From

  Poems

  Youn, Monica,

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  A collection of poems reflects the experiences of Asian Americans and the problem of creating an Asian American identity while influenced by Westerners' ideas about Asians.

• The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on

  Choi, Franny,

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  Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. Bringing together Choi's signature speculative imagination with even greater…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Born Palestinian, Born Black

  Hammad, Suheir

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  Suheir Hammad has given us a collection of poems that have their roots in a land near the edge of the sea. Here is the voice of one woman who has not forgotten the plight of her people.

• Winter Recipes From the Collective

  Glück, Louise, 1943-

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  The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient.

• The Storm

  Stories & Prose Poems

  Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931

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  The Storm brings together fourteen short stories and prose poems from Gibran's Arabic writings, which exhibit several characteristic Gibran themes: the injustice perpetrated by society against the poor, the weak, and the sincere; nature and its…Read moreRead more of this annotation