Best Books for Adults 2022

10 Books Found

Filtered by 'Poetry'
  • Against Heaven: Poems

    Deftly blending the personal and the political, Alabi's unrestrained debut collection is equal parts prayer, praise, and protest.

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  • Constellation Route

    At once funny, melancholy, and grandiose, the contents of a mail courier's bag spill out in Olzmann's latest book.

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  • Content Warning: Everything

    Emezi builds identity and family from chosen elements in these poems, describing the commonness of growing into divinity with wit, candor, and clarity.

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  • How to Survive the Apocalypse: Poems

    In poems with titles like "What If the Supreme Court Were Really the Supremes?," Trimble speaks to the contemporary African American experience with works that are historical, humorous, and bitingly inquisitive.

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  • The Hurting Kind: Poems

    Nature is a springboard to self-reflection in Limón’s sixth collection, where the seasons serve as a prism and horses, scorpions, carp, and groundhogs inhabit moments of singular, revelatory grace.

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  • Mothman Apologia

    Mixing rural folklore with a coming-of-age story, Lynn’s poetry paints an affecting picture of the opioid crisis in the Shenandoah Valley and lays bare our collective misunderstanding of Appalachia.

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  • O

    English and Arabic find themselves in conversation about homeland, family, religion, and the role of women in Hashem Beck’s latest offering, with the interplay giving new meaning to traditional form.

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  • Path of Totality

    Pollari's poems about her grief after a stillbirth are both devastatingly intimate and sweepingly universal.

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  • The Trees Witness Everything

    Working within the formal constraints of traditional Japanese poetry, Chang writes of aging, nature, love, death, and violence with an austere emotionality, creating stark beauty from simplicity.

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  • What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems

    Stone casts our everyday experiences in mythic language, lifting even the mundane anxieties of a sleepless night to new philosophical heights.

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