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  • Slavery: The African American Psychic Trauma

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    • Author: Latif, Sultan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: January 01 1994
    • ISBN10: 0964011808
    • Language: English
  • Self-Driving

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    “Feminist and humanist, the vision here is both passionate and compassionate. It’s a pageturner to be sure.” –Kazim Ali

    Betsy Fagin’s self-driving reimagines the American road trip through the lens of[more below]

    • Series: Autumn House Press Poetry Prize
    • Author: Fagin, Betsy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 28 2025
    • ISBN10: 1637681100
    • Language: English
  • Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

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    Luminous and tranquil, Saar’s newest installation uses natural objects and materials to take the viewer on a spiritual journey

    This volume features the Huntington Library and Museum’s commissioned site

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    • Author: Saar, Betye
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1646570421
    • Language: English
  • The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees

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    Parents can be expected to know all, but they don’t have many answers in a world of constantly moving rights and wrongs. The poems in The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees e

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    • Author: Nobis, Mitchell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: June 24 2025
    • ISBN10: 1966253095
    • Language: English
  • The Weight of Sound: Poems

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    “With an eye for detail and with textured language, Mariano Zaro’s The Weight of Sound asks the ineffable questions: how do we all suffer?-how do we survive the suffering? This collection’s poems bris

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    • Author: Zaro, Mariano
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 92
    • Publish Date: October 20 2025
    • ISBN10: 1964295122
    • Language: English
  • Flight 853

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    On a quiet September day in 1969, the skies over Indiana turned into a nightmare.

    A single-engine Piper Cherokee collided with the tail of Allegheny Flight 853, a DC-9 carrying dozens of passengers. Wi… [more below]

    • Author: Stephens, Phil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: September 30 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798899717901
    • Language: English
  • Whitman. Cannonball. Puebla.

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    Poetic fables that consider a future Greater Americas that blends the cultures of peoples across the hemisphere.

    This four-part collection of poetic fables engages the emerging field of global-poetic

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    • Author: Toscano, Rodrigo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 108
    • Publish Date: October 06 2025
    • ISBN10: 1632431742
    • Language: English
  • New England Sweets: Doughnuts, Bonbons & Whoopie Pies

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    A chocolate mill opened in Boston in the late 1700s, setting the stage for New England’s enduring love affair with sweets. Over the following centuries, the region has become home to an extraordinary

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    • Series: American Palate
    • Author: Bregman, Susan Mara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: July 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1467157481
    • Language: English
  • Talking with Boys

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    In a collection of linked tales filled with irony, humor, and magic, Talking with Boys introduces an unforgettable cast of characters in the Pakistani diaspora in Houston navigating crises of their ow… [more below]

    • Series: Immigrant Writing
    • Author: Kanwal, Tayyba
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 186
    • Publish Date: January 06 2026
    • ISBN10: 1625571798
    • Language: English
  • Last Train to Paradise: New and Selected Poems

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    Last Train to Paradise by Martha Silano includes work from all seven of Silano’s previously published books along with thirty-five new poems written shortly before Silano’s death from ALS in 2025. Sil… [more below]

    • Author: Silano, Martha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: December 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1947817841
    • Language: English
  • Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters: Poems

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    A witty and searching collaborative poetic work composed during the pandemic.

    Let’s go back far as we dare
    to go back to that land bridge
    made of untrusting earth & ice,

    to a boorish faith in our rhythm

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    • Author: Komunyakaa, Yusef
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: February 17 2026
    • ISBN10: 0374617643
    • Language: English
  • No Swaddle

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    Mackenzie Kozak examines the complex question of whether or not to bear children. Through a series of untitled American sonnets, the poems speak to themes of origin and desire, noting the shame that c… [more below]

    • Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
    • Author: Kozak, MacKenzie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: April 10 2025
    • ISBN10: 1685970109
    • Language: English
  • We (the People of the United States)

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    From an award-winning poet praised for his “rhapsodic, rigorous” work (The New Yorker) comes an immersive meditation on kindship, collectivity, and environmental thought

    We (The People of The United S

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Bennett, Joshua
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 17 2026
    • ISBN10: 0143138642
    • Language: English
  • The Exonerated: A Play

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    What effect does it have on a person–a soul, a life–to have freedom and self-respect stripped away and then, ostensibly, returned years later after decades of incarceration? The Exonerated attempts

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    • Author: Blank, Jessica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: December 15 2003
    • ISBN10: 0571211836
    • Language: English
  • Mysteries of Small Houses: Poems

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    A Pulitzer Prize Finalist
    Winner of the Los Angeles Time Book Prize

    An autobiographical collection of poetry by Alice Notley, “One of America’s greatest poets” (Poetry Foundation)

    Alice Notley vividly

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Notley, Alice
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: June 01 1998
    • ISBN10: 0140588965
    • Language: English
  • Yeet!

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    Afrofuturist poetry that envisions Black people finding new worlds of freedom.

    Following the traditions of Eve L. Ewing, Rio Cortez, and Douglas Kearney, jason b. crawford’s YEET! envisions the Black

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    • Author: Crawford, Jason B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: October 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 163243170X
    • Language: English
  • The Bronze Arms: Poems

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    Following his captivating and popular A Hundred Lovers, Hofmann’s new collection is a queer coming-of-age, tinged with myth: poems that bring us into a fever dream of antiquity and desire at its limi[more below]

    • Author: Hofmann, Richie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: February 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 0593804740
    • Language: English
  • Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities

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    “A groundbreaking look at the controversial topic of sexism and gender politics within African American communities.”–Ebony

    In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment

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    • Author: Cole, Johnnetta B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: December 30 2003
    • ISBN10: 0345454138
    • Language: English
  • Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team

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    Metropolitans expertly unpacks the ‘cruel optimism’ linking the yearning of a fanbase whose suffering is alleviated by sporadic miracles to the genuine dissident legacies that surrounded the team’s c[more below]

    • Author: Gittlitz, A. M.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: March 31 2026
    • ISBN10: 1662603002
    • Language: English
  • Wolves in Shells

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    Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry

    Wolves in Shells is a modern monomyth telling the story of a woman navigating homelessness, trauma, and memories as she attempts to leave a violent partner. Re

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    • Series: Backwaters Prize in Poetry
    • Author: Priest, Kimberly Ann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1496243706
    • Language: English
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