Subjects & Themes - Family

  • Domestirexia: Poems

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    A poetry collection contorting the idea of home away from being a site of comfort and nourishment by coaxing the reader to think about domesticity in knotty new ways

    Domestirexia goes beyond the entan

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    • Author: Novak, Joanna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: July 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1593767633
    • Language: English
  • Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car: Comics for Beautiful, Awful and Ordinary Days

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    Jordan Bolton’s Blue Sky Through The Window of A Moving Car is a poignant collection of comics that explore universal experiences and emotions through art and poetry. Small yet powerful, and equal par[more below]

    • Author: Bolton, Jordan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: November 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 1524895091
    • Language: English
  • Draw Me Without Boundaries

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    Powerful love between a grandmother and a granddaughter animates the voices in this poignant series of inner monologues set against the backdrop of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic. Margar… [more below]

    • Author: Gibson, Margaret
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 126
    • Publish Date: July 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 0807182451
    • Language: English
  • Brother Poem

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    A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG

    At the heart of Brother Poem is a sequence addressed to a fictional brother. Through these fragments,

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Harris, Will
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0819500526
    • Language: English
  • Father’s Day

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    As seen in the The New York Times Book Review

    “In characteristically short lines and pithy, slippery language like predictive text from a lucid dream, Zapruder’s fifth collection grapples with father

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    • Author: Zapruder, Matthew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 03 2019
    • ISBN10: 1556595786
    • Language: English
  • Love Poems for the Office

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    In the spirit of his Love Poems collections, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, New York Times bestseller and Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney returns with a hilarious new collection of [more below]

    • Author: Kenney, John
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 059319070X
    • Language: English
  • Poetry by Chance: An Anthology of Poems Powered by Metaphor Dice

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    Writers of all ages and levels of experience have been using Taylor Mali’s Metaphor Dice for years to explore and revel in the formulaic nature of metaphors. The game gives you a collection of three d… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Mali, Taylor
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: July 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1638340749
    • Language: English
  • Toy Gun

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    In Toy Gun, Matt fires his offbeat childhood and adolescence at the page. He enters each exit wound with sharp diction and form, extracting shards of trauma, mental health, and evolutionary violence…. [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Coonan, Matt
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: August 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 1638340803
    • Language: English
  • Survivor’s Notebook: Poems

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    A collection of prose poems that chronicles the family life of two cancer survivors.

    Dan O’Brien’s powerful companion to Our Cancers catalogs the recovery of a cancer survivor, whose wife has recentl

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    • Author: O’Brien, Dan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 116
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1946724637
    • Language: English
  • We Borrowed Gentleness

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    We Borrowed Gentleness interrogates the innateness of pain and forms of destruction–through natural disaster, through God, through family, and through the power structures and patriarchal violence th… [more below]

    • Author: Lopez, J. Estanislao
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1948579286
    • Language: English
  • Blocks World

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    Blocks World by Emma Catherine Perry is a stunning collection of poems exploring the intimate and fraught relationships among Artificial Intelligence, the natural world, and family. Combining formally

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    • Author: Perry, Emma Catherine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 90
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1950987337
    • Language: English
  • Kindest Regards: Poems, Selected and New

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    Four decades of poetry―and a generous selection of new work―make up this extraordinary collection by Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser. Firmly rooted in the landscapes of the Midwest, Koose… [more below]

    • Author: Kooser, Ted
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: June 15 2021
    • ISBN10: 1556595344
    • Language: English
  • The Orange Tree

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    Debut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration.

    Dong Li’s The Orange Tree is a collection of narrative poems that braids forgotten legends, personal sorrows, and

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    • Series: Phoenix Poets
    • Author: Li, Dong
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: March 31 2023
    • ISBN10: 0226826163
    • Language: English
  • Love Poems for Married People

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people.

    Full of brilliant wit,

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    • Author: Kenney, John
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 31 2018
    • ISBN10: 0525540008
    • Language: English
  • The Bearable Slant of Light

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    The Bearable Slant of Light asks what the burden and gift of madness brings to a family, to our world.

    What can we bear and what can we lift when a beloved, when our world, is light-struck and mad? The

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    • Author: Edwards, Lynnell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: April 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 1636281281
    • Language: English
  • Father Verses Sons: A Correspondence in Poems

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    When the global pandemic forced his ninety-six-year-old father into isolation, filmmaker Ari Gold became concerned that loneliness would kill his father’s spirits. As a prolific novelist who began wri

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    • Author: Gold, Herbert
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: March 26 2024
    • ISBN10: 164428426X
    • Language: English
  • Love as Invasive Species: Poems

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    Shame has kept so many women’s stories silenced, with a cultural lineage of lack that asks women to give up their own desire while simultaneously performing cultural expectations of desire for others.

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    • Author: Kombiyil, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: September 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 196032960X
    • Language: English
  • An Authentic Life

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    An Authentic Life is an exacting and fearless interrogation of the education one receives from the institutions of academia and family.

    Sprawling yet urgent, meditative yet lucid, the poems in Jennife

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    • Author: Chang, Jennifer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1556596995
    • Language: English
  • Elliott

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    Elliott is a poetry chapbook that illustrates the delicate balance between beauty and pain in caring for a child with special needs. Brian Muriel encapsulates a caregiver’s profound fear and love for

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    • Author: Muriel, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 36
    • Publish Date: June 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 195552114X
    • Language: English
  • Matter / Mother

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    In Earth-based cultures, Mothers are held at the center. As life-bearers, they are treated with the same care and respect as Mother Earth. However, in industrialized societies where the Earth is both

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    • Author: Tierney, April
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 195636899X
    • Language: English
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