Poetry genre books (319)
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Broken Halves of a Milky Sun : Poems by Aaiún Nin EN
AngolaDescription:
With the emotional undertow of Ocean Vuong and the astute political observations of Natalie Diaz, a powerful poetry debut exploring the effects of racism, war and colonialism, queer love and desire. In their breathtaking international debut, Aaiún Nin plumbs the depths of the lived and enduring effects of colonialism in their native country, Angola. In these pages, Nin untangles complexities of exile, the reckoning of familial love, but also reveals the power of queer love and desire through the body that yearns to love and be loved. Nin shows the ways in which faith and devotion serve as form... continue
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for... continue
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Butterfly Valley : A Requiem by Inger Christensen EN
DenmarkDescription:
Inger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender, is one of Europe's most revered poets. Winner of the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy and the Austrian State Prize for Literature, she is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking work Det (It), a cycle of poems published in 1969. Her first book published in the U.S., alphabet (New Directions, 2001), met with a tremendous response: "Seductive," said Boston Review; "A visionary reincarnation of the natural world in the atomic age," wrote Chicago Review. Butterfly Valley: A Requiem collects four medium-length works, each startling for its b... continue
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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ‘Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning ... A masterpiece’.
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Calling a Wolf a Wolf : Poems by Kaveh Akbar EN
IranDescription:
Addiction. Recovery. Repeat. Akbar blazes the poetry scene with this introspective, powerful and passionate debut.
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Cape Verdean Blues by Shauna Barbosa EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
“These words feel like experiences. Some are personal, most are enlightening, but all connect. Connect on a higher Level. A spiritual level.” —Kendrick Lamar, Grammy Award-winning artist, and winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music A Lit Hub Favorite Book of 2018 The speaker in Cape Verdean Blues is an oracle walking down the street. Shauna Barbosa interrogates encounters and the weight of their space. Grounded in bodily experience and the phenomenology of femininity, this collection provides a sense of Cape Verdean identity. It uniquely captures the essence of “Sodade,” as it refers to th... continue
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Casa scărilor by Corina Bernic RO
RomaniaDescription:
Se poate locui in Casa scarilor, se poate citi, poti spiona vecinii de vizavi, trage cu urechea. Aici ai parte de mici revelatii si infiorari, filme, distractie si tristete. Scris cu inteligenta si umor – si inca ceva: o detasare caustica se simte pe tot parcursul lecturii –, volumul are toate atuurile sa devina unul de referinta. (V. Leac)
Corina Bernic scrie o „poezie de speriat copilul din tine“ (un copil al Epocii de Aur, desigur). Lucrurile se complica atunci cand acesta se strecoara, ca un ilegalist, prin cotloanele de pe casa scarii pe care o bantuie si, pe ne... continue
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Catrachos : Poems by Roy G. Guzmán EN
Country: North America / 
Honduras
Honduras
Description:
The breathtaking debut collection from one of America’s most inventive new poets A name for the people of Honduras, Catrachos is a term of solidarity and resilience. In these unflinching, riveting poems, Roy G. Guzmán reaches across borders—between life and death and between countries—invoking the voices of the lost. Part immigration narrative, part elegy, and part queer coming-of-age story, Catrachos finds its own religion in fantastic figures such as the X-Men, pop singers, and the “Queerodactyl,” which is imagined in a series of poems as a dinosaur sashaying in the shadow of an oncoming com... continue