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We Contain Landscapes: Poems
by Patrycja Humienik
To whom do we belong, and at what cost? Patrycja Humienik's debut poetry collection, We Contain Landscapes, is haunted by questions of desire, borders, and the illusion of national belonging. Bringing music and rich sensory detail to the page, these poems attend to the inextricable link between our bodies and the land. Over five ruminative and lush sections, they survey place and memory, both intergenerationally and through emotional bonds with other immigrant daughters.
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The Moon That Turns You Back
by Hala Alyan
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. These poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body--and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations.
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Wrong Norma
by Anne Carson
Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent, asking that her books be published without cover copy, she has agreed to say this: “Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget’s Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night, Sokrates, writing sonnets, forensics, encounters with lovers, the word ‘idea’, the feet of Jesus, and Russian thugs. The pieces are not linked. That’s why I’ve called them ‘wrong’.”
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Water, Water: Poems
by Billy Collins
"In more than sixty new poems, Billy Collins writes with joy and wonder about the beauty and irony of daily life. The best poetry, he believes, begins with clarity and ends in mystery, and in Water, Water we encounter a writer endlessly astonished by the world all around. Turning his eye to the cat drinking from the swimming pool or the nurse calling your name in the waiting room or the astronaut reading Emily Dickinson while orbiting earth, Collins captures images and moments that mean so much more than they might initially seem.
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Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems
by Megan Fox
Deliciously dark and highly addictive, this powerful collection of 70 poems chronicles all the ways in which we mold ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process.
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
by Hanif Abdurraqib
While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role-models, all of which he expertly weaves together with memoir.
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Out of the Blank: Poems
by Elaine Equi
From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. “Thoughtful, witty, curious” (The New York Times), Equi’s subversive voice delicately refracts human experiences from the colors of weather to the strange ways we make sense of our bodies, from the emptiness of family homes to the flow of time itself.
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Alphabetical Diaries
by Sheila Heti
The award-winning author of the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood, and How Should a Person Be? presents a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period arranged in sentences from A to Z.
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Hummingbird Season
by Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Archie feels more alone than ever with the only bright spot being the hummingbirds that feed outside his window, but when California experiences its worst wildfire in history and his favorite hummingbird disappears, he must find his voice—and hope—once again.
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What Had Happened Was
by Therâi A. Pickens
What Had Happened Was, Therâi Alyce Pickens's debut poetry collection, investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Exploring topics that range from Black life, popular culture, and history, to individual encounters with emotion, love, andchronic disability, Pickens's poetry blends theory with autobiography. Pickens writes in conversation with various influences, tying her own experiences and scholarly research to cultural touchpoints throughout time, including Harriet Tubman, The Fresh Prince, and Mary J. Blige.
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You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
by Ada Limo´n
The 24th U.S. Poet Laureate presents 50 previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplish poets, including Joy Harjo, Jericho Brown and Aime Nezhukumatathil, who offer an intimate model of how we relate to the natural world, illuminating the many ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing.
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A Bit Much: Poems
by Lyndsay Rush
Lyndsay Rush (@maryoliversdrunkcousin)'s debut poetry collection, A Bit Much, offers a humorous and joyful take on big feelings, tender truths, and hard-won wisdom, appealing to fans of Maggie Smith, Kate Baer, and Kate Kennedy. This accessible collection, born from an Instagram experiment, uses witty wordplay and surprising wisdom to explore the female experience – from motherhood to the patriarchy – delivering both laughs and profound insights. With over 140 poems, mostly new, readers will feel seen, celebrated, and inspired to embrace joy.
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Instructions For Traveling West: Poems
by Joy Sullivan
Joy Sullivan's debut collection, Instructions for Traveling West, chronicles her mid-pandemic cross-country journey of personal reinvention after leaving her planned life. These lush poems explore themes of loss, loneliness, and belonging, asking what futures await when we embrace the unknown. For those seeking fresh starts, Sullivan's work teaches that naming our desires can be transformative, reminding us of our power to forge new paths and that "joy is not a trick."
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Bluff: Poems
by Danez Smith
Through new prose, an award-winning poet considers and comments upon recent events in modern America, from the Covid-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing nation-wide protests, to unchecked capitalism, mass shootings and gentrification.
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Foxglovewise: Poems
by Ange Mlinko
Ange Mlinko's Foxglovewise is a witty, erudite, and moving poetry collection born from the loss of her parents, beginning in Florida and ending in Los Angeles. Using geography as a metaphor for our attempts to chart our lives, the poems reveal that much of what truly matters lies beyond our maps and apps. Mlinko explores how we navigate life's uncertainties, living "up in the air" rather than in fixed coordinates, ultimately offering a direct connection to the author's heart beneath the dazzling surface.
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Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023
by Margaret Atwood
Spanning six decades of work—from her earliest beginnings to brand-new poems—this volume provides an extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age.
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Scorched Earth
by Tiana Clark
Dive between the borders of ruined and radical love with this lyrical poetry collection that explores topics as expansive as divorce, the first Black Bachelorette, and the art world. Stanzas shift between reverence to irreverence as they take us on a journey through institutional and historical pains alongside sensuality and queer, Black joys.
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Girls on the Rise
by Amanda Gorman
"Who are we? We are a billion voices, bright and brave; we are light, standing together in the fight." Girls are strong and powerful alone, but even stronger when they work to uplift one another. In this galvanizing original poem by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, girls and girlhood are celebrated in their many forms, all beautiful, not for how they look but for how they look into the face of fear.
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A Year of Last Things: Poems
by Michael Ondaatje
Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. Moving from a Sri Lankan boarding school to Moliere's chair during his last stage performance, to Bulgarian churches and their icons, to a California coast, and his beloved Canadian rivers, Michael Ondaatje casts a brilliant eye that merges his past and present, in the way memory and the distant shores of art and lost friends continue to influence all that surrounds him.
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