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An entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world.

In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet--and leaves us feeling sweeter and soot

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to refugees, in this collection of original and never before published poems.

A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time.

Comment sauver une amie sans risquer sa propre vie ? Une nouvelle voisine, aperçue de loin, s’absente de l’école.

A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory

Je suis un fantôme. Je suis au milieu d'une grande sœur et d'un petit frère. Mes notes à l'école c'est B, des fois B. Je suis pas tellement populaire, mais pas tellement l'inverse non plus.

first snow falling slow hangs in the air a curtain drifting there thickening sight —“Winter” In this new collection, Douglas Barbour experiments with what he calls “rhythmically intense open form.”

Gospel Drunk follows a speaker’s journey to find clarity and identity as he contemplates his Catholic upbringing and struggles with loneliness and alcohol addiction.

Arborophobia, the latest collection by award-winning poet Nancy Holmes, is a poetic spiritual reckoning.

Sophie grew up in Veslefjord, deep in the Norwegian North, where the ice stretches to the horizon and the long polar night is filled with stories about the animals of the sea, ice, and sky.

In this stellar debut collection by Métis poet Diana Hope Tegenkamp we find solace and outrage, grief and tenderness, bewilderment and beauty, all "entangled in hope and dreaming." After many loss

This poignant debut by Gavin Bradley explores the emotional toll of different kinds of separation: from a partner, a previously held sense of self, or a home and the people left behind.

This is a stunning debut, revealing how breaking silences and reconciling identity can refine anger into something both useful and beautiful.

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after