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What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

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By Adrienne Rich — 2003

Through journals, letters, dreams, and close readings of the work of many poets, Adrienne Rich reflects on how poetry and politics enter and impinge on American life. This expanded edition includes a new preface by the author as well as her post–9/11 "Six Meditations in Place of a Lecture."

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Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems

In A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman revealed herself as a naturalist who writes with the sensuous immediately of a great poet. Now Jaguar of Sweet Laughter presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist.

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Diane Ackerman
1993
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Milk and Honey

A collection of poetry and prose about survival, about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.

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Rupi Kaur
2025
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The Sun Is So Quiet

The quiet and noisy, wintery and sometimes sunny poems in The Sun Is So Quiet will always make you smile. Nikki Giovanni describes riding rainbows, tiptoeing through strawberry patches, licking chocolaty fingers, snuggling under covers, and many other wonderful childhood moments.

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Nikki Giovanni
2014
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Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement

Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement is one of the single most important volumes of modern African-American poetry.

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Nikki Giovanni
1970
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998

This omnibus includes Nikki Giovanni’s first seven volumes of poetry from her early years, 1967 to 1983: Black Feeling Black Talk; Black Judgement; Re: Creation; My House; The Women and the Men; Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day; and Those Who Ride the Night Winds.

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Nikki Giovanni
2007
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A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter

As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart.

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Nikki Giovanni
2018
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The Illuminated Hafiz: Love Poems for the Journey to Light

Vivid translations by Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Omid Safi, Meher Baba, and others combine with Michael and Saliha Green’s stunning illustrations to bring the immortal poetry of the great Persian master Hafiz to life “There is this matter of the light in my eyes.

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Hafiz
2025
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How to Cure a Ghost

Fariha Róisín's debut collection of poetry fearlessly illuminates her experiences as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the vibrant, intimate joys and paralyzing obstacles of her intersectionality.

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Fariha Róisín
2019
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If They Come For Us: Poems

From a co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls comes an imaginative, soulful debut poetry that collection captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America.

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Fatimah Asghar
2025
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To the Moon: An Anthology of Lunar Poems

“While editing ‘Answering Back,’ in which living poets replied to poems from the past, I was astonished to see how many of the poems, old and new, referred to the moon.

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Carol Ann Duffy (editor)
2025
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