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A book-length love letter to the friends who keep Smith alive, in poems that refuse both despair and easy access.
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Alive at the End of the World
Poems written through the pandemic, private loss and public Black death, elegies that refuse to choose between the historical and the personal.
Don't Call Us Dead
Opens with a vision of a Black afterlife free of police bullets, then turns inward to a young HIV-positive Black queer poet writing to survive.
The Tradition
Pulitzer-winning collection where Brown's invented duplex form holds up the violence against Black bodies alongside desire, faith, and flowers.
A Portable Paradise
T.S. Eliot-winning poems of London, Grenfell Tower, windrush childhood, and the portable paradise a grandmother insisted her grandson carry.
The Carrying
Poems about the body that refuses pregnancy, the small domestic world of horses and fig trees, and what the heart carries forward anyway.
This Wound Is a World
Griffin-winning debut from a Cree poet making a queer Indigenous lyric out of grief, desire, and the political weather of the Canadian state.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Vuong's debut moves between a Vietnamese boy's afterlife of war and a queer American coming-of-age, in poems that braid family memory and desire.
Time Is a Mother
Poems written after his mother's death, elegies that move through work, opioids and the close quarters of a son's grief.
Pilgrim Bell
Poems weighing doubt and belief, Islamic faith and American life, silence and prayer.
Birthday Letters
Hughes breaks decades of silence about his marriage to Sylvia Plath in poems that are part love letter, part elegy, part reckoning.
Stag's Leap
Pulitzer-winning book-length account of the year her husband of thirty years left her, in poems that stay unbearably present to every small event.
Wade in the Water
The former US Poet Laureate writes through Civil War letters, motherhood, and ecological grief, listening for the voices buried in the national record.