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  • Alive at the End of the World

    by Saeed Jones ...
    Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses.In haunted poems glinting with laughter, Saeed Jones explores the public and private betrayals of life as we know it. With verve, wit, and elegant craft, Jones strips away American artifice in order to reveal the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maybe the Saddest Thing

    Poems

    by Marcus Wicker, D. A. Powell ...
    Series series National Poetry
    Winner of the 2011 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by D.A. Powell, Marcus Wicker's Maybe the Saddest Thing is a sterling collection of contemporary American poems by an exciting new and emerging voice. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Repast

    Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails

    by D. A. Powell ...
    D. A. Powell's first three groundbreaking booksPublished together for the first time, D. A. Powell's landmark trilogy of Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails make up a three-course Divine Comedy for our day. With a new introduction by novelist David Leavitt, Repast presents a major achievement in contemporary poetry. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys

    Poems

    by D. A. Powell ...
    *Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry*I have this rearrangement to make:symbolic death, my backward glance.The way the past is a kind of futureleaning against the sporty hood.—from "Bugcatching at Twilight"In Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys - D. A. Powell's fifth book of poetry - the rollicking line he has made his signature becomes the taut, more discursive ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Documents

    by Jan-Henry Gray ...
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    Rooted in the experience of living in America as a queer undocumented Filipino, Documents maps the byzantine journey toward citizenship through legal records and fragmented recollections. In poems that repurpose the forms and procedures central to an immigrant’s experiences—birth certificates, identification cards, letters, and interviews—Jan-Henry Gray reveals the narrative limits of legal ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Fire This Time

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    The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are “thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that words are important, because of their power to both cleanse and to clarify” (USA TODAY).In this bestselling, widely ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2011

    Edited by Edwidge Danticat, Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    The acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory presents an anthology of personal essays by Hilton Als, Christopher Hitchens, Zadie Smith and others.In her selection process for this sterling volume, Edwidge Danticat considers the inherent vulnerability of the essay form—a vulnerability that seems all the more present in today's spotlighted public square. As she says in her introduction, "when we ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2021

    by Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz ... Read more

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  • Take the Cannoli

    Stories From the New World

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  • My Bookstore

    Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop

    by Emily St. John Mandel ...
    In this enthusiastic, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous ode to bookshops and booksellers, 84 known authors pay tribute to the brick-and-mortar stores they love and often call their second homes.In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores and booksellers have given them over the years. The relationship between a writer and his ... Read more

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