Best Books for Adults 2021

10 Books Found

Filtered by 'Poetry'
  • Doppelgangbanger: Poems

    Charleston explores masculinity, race, and community in this explosive and melodic collection.
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  • Extremely Lightweight Guns: Poems

    In this surreal and singular collection, Moustaki writes about terrorism, an aging dressmaker, and post-apocalyptic chickens with equal urgency and inspiration.
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  • frank: sonnets

    In this modern beat poetry book, the sonnet form interrogates itself as part of a visceral and brilliant stream-of-consciousness narrative.
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  • If God Is a Virus: Poems

    Doctor-poet Seema Yasmin crafts a provocative chorus of experiences and observations in the medical field while investigating an Ebola outbreak.
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  • Mama Phife Represents: A Verse Memoir

    Writer and activist Boyce-Taylor spills her heartbreak, pain, celebration, and pride onto the page after the untimely death of her son Malik, known as Phife Dawg.
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  • Oh You Robot Saints!

    Oh You Robot Saints! investigates the deeply human need to make and unmake, to pit nature against time. This collection is an irreverent jaunt through churches, factories, and dressing rooms.
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  • The Perseverance: Poems

    A stunning examination of a d/Deaf experience alongside meditations on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed. With a global scope and a deep intimacy, Antrobus draws on family and historical figures to create a chorus of voices.
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  • Popular Longing

    These poems are as witty as they are wise. Shapero dismantles the mundane violence of everyday life with aplomb. If you can't shake the absurdity of contemporary society, Popular Longing will feel like home.
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  • Transversal: Poems

    Transversal is a playground of Spanish, English, and Spanglish. Urayoán Noel deftly switches language and form to examine the world after Hurricane María and during a global pandemic.
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  • What Noise Against the Cane

    The ocean speaks in this spellbinding epic that reframes the hero not as the plunderer but the one who is stolen.
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