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A moving manifesto in poems and essays, inviting readers to embrace their humanity and live fully alive in our age of social change, hyper-capitalism, and pervasive loneliness yes, everyone is struggling right now so please be gracious be kind & patient, but subvert every institution that relies...

An all-star ensemble cast of poets and performers bring to life Nikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection—a landmark of American literature! For decades, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. The New Book is a towering work of protest against the...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Adrian Schiller. In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the...

Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an acclaimed Palestinian poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer You are alive for a moment when living people run after you. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu...

In this dystopian tale of a near-future society increasingly threatened by all-consuming AI, a scientist mother and her disabled son rebel against the corporate larceny of their selves, by an award-winning poet (“Stirring. . . . Wildly inventive and sharp to an edge” —Los Angeles Review of...

From the legendary avant-garde poet Kim Hyesoon, a landmark collection documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date. “Poetry in Korea has been a vaunted form—and traditionally left to men. Kim broke away from the masculine styles that came before her. . . . Kim has...

Breathe Together takes its title from the Latin root words of the word “conspiracy,” which also gives the central poem its title. It is both deeply personal and universally relatable, and it speaks to the resilience and humanity of those who lived through complex losses and betrayals during these traumatic times. The language is both mystical and cerebral, with a strong sense of imagery, reflection, and raw emotion. The collection is not only a meditation of the pandemic, familial lineage, insanity, and infidelity, but also the emotional journey of the poet. The reader can feel the pain...

In this part-memoir, part-manifesto, an acclaimed poet interprets Black radical literary traditions to reimagine freedom through refusal. “In these fierce yet tender pages, Camonghne Felix reveals how imagination can become a form of governance—an instrument for creating a world rooted in...

Step into a World Where Gothic Poetry Meets Cosmic Horror Sad Songs from an Old Goth in a Tree is a hauntingly beautiful collection that explores the enigmatic rise of Cthulhu, blending ancient legends with profound introspection and melancholic elegance. Each poem strikes a delicate balance between despair and hope, solitude and connection, drawing readers into shadowed landscapes alive with whispers of otherworldly forces. Themes of light and darkness intertwine, creating a mesmerizing journey for fans of gothic literature and cosmic horror alike. Enhance your experience with exclusive ...

“Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding. . . . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic boundaries to write the poems that only he could write, poems that travel time and space for a truth that is sometimes painful and always necessary.”—Jericho Brown, Pulitzer...

Read by the author, Harry Josephine Giles. Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is a challenging and subversive collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology. Witty, candid, furious, and always compelling, Them! negotiates the fraught and...

Deep Down, The Rabbit Hole Poetry" offers an immersive exploration of the tumultuous years of 2023 and 2024 as the world navigated uncertainty and upheaval. Against this backdrop, a poet emerges, wielding their pen as a beacon of truth in a sea of chaos. This collection of over 125 poem stories provides a raw and unfiltered examination of the human experience, from the mundane to the profound. In the first chapter, "Death, Life, and the Brief Dance Between," themes of guilt, grace, and introspection set the stage for a deep exploration of the complexities of existence. The poet reflects on ...

From the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing and Silencer comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and identity. In Dear Mothership, Marcus Wicker channels the lyrical dexterity of Outkast and the...

Hubo un tiempo en que los frutos de la tierra se aventaban en las eras, y las palabras se murmuraban apenas, con los labios tensos, los ojos vigilando las esquinas, como si las piedras pudieran delatar los pensamientos no pronunciados. Entonces, no discutíamos de política... Hubo un tiempo en que lo más extraño de otras tierras era el forastero con su puesto en la plaza, o el mozo del pueblo vecino que osaba cortejar a una muchacha. Se le arrojaba al pilón del pozo si no pagaba la patente, y si la pagaba... también. Los negros eran cabezas de escayolacon ranura en el cogote, los ...

Moonflower by Phillip Shabazz is a collection of poems that capture the experience of living through prolonged barriers, disparities, and challenging times. Written in a meditative, identity-based style, the poems resemble an urban tapestry, touching on the cost of progress and the fading spirit of community in the early twenty-first century. Moonflower draws upon a symbol between the journey of the speaker and the contemporary American experience, reflecting on the external and internal conflict between nihilism, hope, and redemption. The collection emphasizes the resistance and steady ...

Step away from the shore and into the journey with Bethany Lee's The Coracle and the Copper Bell. This collection speaks of summer plums and starlight, of circuses and saltwater, all pointing to the work it takes to weave body and soul into a trustworthy vessel, capable of navigating the currents of a life with curiosity and courage. These poems will carry you through the undoing to the essence beyond. You will find here a faithful companion to buoy you in the lifelong voyage of becoming.

Lyrics about the worlds in my books, military motifs, sad stories, and more.

"It was the worst of times and it was the worst of times. Everyone was going nowhere and everyone was trying to jump on the bandwagon …" or so it might appear to those who have borne witness to a world that promises so little and delivers even less. The weight of history and the burden of expectation somehow conspire to ensure that youth is always wasted on the young. Cursing the darkness while conjuring up new, ever more defiant ways of fighting fire with fire, yet perplexing and all as it may have been, it cannot be said to have been without some sense of purpose. For what else is one ...

Osip Mandelshtam (1891–1938) grew up in St. Petersburg in a middle-class, assimilated Jewish family. Between 1907 and 1910, he traveled in western Europe, encountering the French Symbolists and other modernist writers. Returning to Russia in 1911 to attend St. Petersburg University, he joined with poets Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilyov to establish the poetic movement Acmeism, which celebrated compactness of form and clarity of expression. Tristia (1922), his second book, helped to establish his reputation as one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, along with his first ...