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  • peluda

    One of the most original performance poets of her generation, Melissa Lozada-Oliva has captivated crowds across the country and online with her vivid narratives. Humorous and biting, personal and communal, self-deprecating and unapologetically self-loving, peluda (meaning “hairy†or “hairy beastâ€) is the poet at her best. The book explores the relationship between femininity and body hair as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • These Black Bodies Are...

    Edited by Romaine Washington ...
    The beautiful cover art, "Shared Knowledge" by Charles Bibbs, frames the anthology These Black Bodies Are.... This collection provides snapshots of the human condition in melanated skin and kinky hair from established and emerging writers and artists in the Inland Empire and Los Angeles area, reaching throughout the diaspora. It is an exploration of eight movements: hopeful, mindful (mental health ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bodega

    Poems

    by Su Hwang ...
    Finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardWinner of the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in PoetryAgainst the backdrop of the war on drugs and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, a Korean girl comes of age in her parents’ bodega in the Queensbridge projects, offering a singular perspective on our nation of immigrants and the tensions pulsing in the margins where they live and work.In Su Hwang’s rich ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Customs

    Poems

    by Solmaz Sharif ...
    Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award for PoetryWinner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award for PoetryFinalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardFinalist for the 2022 L.A. Times Book Prize for PoetryLonglisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardIn Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Finding My Elegy

    New and Selected Poems

    This poetry collection by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author presents selections from across fifty years of verse—plus more than seventy new poems.Though internationally celebrated for her imaginative fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin started out as a poet, and since 1959 has never ceased to publish poems. Finding My Elegy distills her life's work in verse, offering a selection of the best from her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Are Here

    Poetry in the Natural World

    Edited by Ada Limón ...
    Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers.For many years, “nature poetry” has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • For All of Us, One Today

    An Inaugural Poet's Journey

    For All of Us, One Today is a fluid, poetic story anchored by Richard Blanco’s experiences as the inaugural poet in 2013, and beyond. In this brief and evocative narrative, he shares for the first time his journey as a Latino immigrant and openly gay man discovering a new, emotional understanding of what it means to be an American. He tells the story of the call from the White House committee and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • One Winter's Night & Risky Pleasures

    An Anthology

    New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson brings you the story of Riley Westmoreland. He never mixes business with pleasure-until Alpha Blake. And even when her past threatens their affair, Riley knows…one night will never be enough.Plus a Brenda Jackson favorite-The fourth in the Steele Family Series, Risky Pleasures ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Cannibal

    Series series The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
    Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The People Look Like Flowers At Last

    New Poems

    “if you read this after I am deadIt means I made it”-“The Creation Coffin”The People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections of never-before published poetry from the late great Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski.In it, he speaks on topics ranging from horse racing to military elephants, lost love to the fear of death. He writes extensively about writing, and about talking to people ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Roominghouse Madrigals

    Early Selected Poems 1946-1966

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriterThe Roominghouse Madrigals is a selection of poetry from Charles Bukowski's early work. It shows a slightly softer side to the beloved barfly. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Bone Palace Ballet

    This is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski. It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he looks back at fate with defiance. ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • Open All Night

    These 189 posthumously published new poems take us deeper into the raw, wild vein of Bukowski's that extends from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Storm for the Living and the Dead

    Uncollected and Unpublished Poems

    A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poemsCharles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in small magazines but were never collected, and a large ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • The Best American Poetry 2023

    Series series The Best American Poetry series
    Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents some of the year’s most striking and innovative poems, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Poem Bitten By a Man

    by Brian Teare ...
    *Written in 2021-2022 out of a single poem commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in honor of Jasper John’s Mind/Mirror retrospective. Author wanted to write a formally analogous poem to the Jasper Johns painting entitled Fool’s House, since something about the painting gave him a way to finally write about his own breakup.*This capacious work is a tribute to elder artists, friends, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Little Book on the Human Shadow

    by Robert Bly ...
    Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow -- the dark side of the human personality -- and the importance of confronting it. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Lights

    Poems

    by Ben Lerner ...
    Longlisted for the 2024 Griffin Poetry PrizeA New Yorker Essential Read of 2023Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric LiteratureA formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School.<em... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Love Poem

    Poems

    by Natalie Diaz ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYNatalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award**Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Three Stories and Ten Poems

    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections
    "His prose is of first distinction," declared critic Edmund Wilson of Hemingway upon the 1923 publication of Three Stories and Ten Poems, the author's first foray into the literary world. These short stories ("Up in Michigan," "Out of Season," and "My Old Man") and their accompanying poems captured the attention of other influential critics as well, anticipating the future Nobel Laureate's ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lake Michigan

    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    **Finalist for the 2019 Griffin Poetry PrizeFrom the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award for poetry**Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • CRUEL/CRUEL

    A response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form.CRUEL/CRUEL is the manifestation of a Black, queer voice grappling with the intricacies of (un)belonging and identity. These poems use genres of queerness and race to reckon with the pervasive power of oppressive institutions, shaped by ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Call Us What We Carry

    Poems

    by Amanda Gorman ...
    The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestsellerThe breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda GormanFormerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Blackacre

    Poems

    by Monica Youn ...
    *Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award**National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist**Included in The New York Times Best Poetry of 2016**Named one of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2016** Longlisted for the National Book Award*“Blackacre” is a centuries-old legal fiction—a placeholder name for a hypothetical estate. Treacherously lush or alluringly bleak, these poems ... Read more

    $9.99 USD