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• Postcolonial Love Poem

  Diaz, Natalie,

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  Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages--bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers--be touched and held as beloveds.

• The Hill We Climb

  An Inaugural Poem for the Country

  Gorman, Amanda, 1998-

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  Gorman's call for unity and healing.

• An American Sunrise

  Poems

  Harjo, Joy,

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  Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice.

• The Carrying

  Poems

  Limón, Ada,

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  Poems about love, illness, nature, and resilience.

• You Are Here

  Poetry in the Natural World

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  You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If They Come for Us

  Poems / Fatimah Asghar

  Asghar, Fatimah,

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  This imaginative, soulful debut poetry collection captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America.

• Life on Mars

  Poems

  Smith, Tracy K.

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  With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence.

• What Kind of Woman

  Poems

  Baer, Kate,

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  Debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend.

• Finna

  Poems

  Marshall, Nate (Poet)

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  Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular-its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy

• Poetry Is Not a Luxury

  Poems for All Seasons

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  From love poems to elegies, from the heights of new love to the furrows of anxiety, from special occasions to a morning pick-me-up, there is something here for longtime poetry lovers and novices, in any season of need.