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  1. An American Sunrise by 

    5 stars

    In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian …

  2. Devotions by 

    5 stars

    Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for …

  3. Hurting Kind by 

    3 stars

    With Limón’s remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions—incorporating others’ stories and ways of knowing, making …

  4. Where Hope Comes From by 

    3 stars

    Nikita Gill shares a collection of poems crafted as the world went into lockdown, tackles themes such as mental health …

  5. Call Us What We Carry by 

    4 stars

    This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked …

  6. Salt in wounds

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    An anthology of poems by Kishwar Naheed on occasion of her 80th birthday. This is bilingual edition in English and …

  7. Morning haiku by 

    3 stars

    This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, is music to the ears: …

  8. The Carrying by 

    5 stars

    "Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth …

  9. Bright Dead Things by 

    4 stars

    "Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you …

  10. The Biplane Houses by 

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    This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002. In it we …

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