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• LIKE A HAMMER: POETS ON MASS INCARCERATION

  Hardcover

  Delgado, Diana Marie

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  Like A Hammer is an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America's incarceration system. Favorites from this book: "10 Toes Down" by Sin à Tes Souhaits, "Under Correction I" by Natalie Diaz, "Black Boy with Cow: A Still…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Meadowlands

  Glück, Louise, 1943-2023

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  Meadowlands is a modern retelling of the myth of Odysseus and Penelope, a marriage and divorce in verse. Favorites from this book: "Quiet Evening" "The Wish" "Parable of the King"

• Night Sky With Exit Wounds

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  A haunting debut that risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty. Favorites from this book: "To My Father/To My Future Son" "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism" "A Little Closer to the Edge"

• Devotions

  the Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

  Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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  Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this collection spanning more than five decades. Favorites from this book: "Wild Geese" "The Swan" "The Summer Day"

• Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

  Poems

  Harjo, Joy,

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  In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Favorites from this book: "This Morning I Pray for My Enemies" "It's Raining in Honolulu" "The First Day Without a Mother"

• A Fortune for Your Disaster

  Poems

  Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-

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  A book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak. Favorites from this book: "The Prestige" "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This" "It's Not Like Nicola Tesla Knew All of Those People Were Going To Die"

• Calling a Wolf a Wolf

  Akbar, Kaveh,

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  This debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery. Favorites from this book: "What Seems Like Joy" "Against Dying" "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before"

• Space Struck

  Lewis, Paige, 1991-

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  This debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to reconsider our boundaries of self, time, space, and knowledge. Favorites from this book: "The Moment I Saw A Pelican Devour" "Last Night I Dreamed I Made Myself" "When I Tell…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Carry Water

  Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

  Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010

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  A series of poems drawn from various collections published throughout the 40-year career of American poet Lucille Clifton. Favorites from this book: "won't you celebrate with me?" "i am running into a new year" "new bones"

• Incarnadine

  Poems

  Szybist, Mary, 1970-

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  In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new color. Favorites from this book: "To Gabriela at the Donkey Sanctuary" "Hail" "The Lushness of It"

• Everything Comes Next

  Collected & New Poems

  Nye, Naomi Shihab,

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  Everything Comes Next contains Naomi Shihab Nye's most beloved poems, as well as new, unpublished poems. Favorites from this book: "The Rider" "If the Shoe Doesn't Fit" "Mediterranean Blue"

• Instructions for Traveling West

  Poems

  Sullivan, Joy,

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  A lush debut collection that examines what happens when we leave home and leap into the deep unknown. Favorites from this book: "An Octopus Has Three Whole Hearts" "Buttercream" "Culpable"

• You Can Be the Last Leaf

  Selected Poems

  Abu al-Hayyat, Maya,

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  You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat. Favorites from this book: "You Can't" "I Suffer a Phobia Called Hope" "Revision"

• Good Bones

  Smith, Maggie, 1977-

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  Poems written out of the experience of motherhood. Favorites from this book: "Good Bones" "Heart" "Parachute"

• Homie

  Poems

  Smith, Danez

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  Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Favorites from this book: "jumped!" "fall poem" "old confession & new"