i'm alive / it hurts / i love it

10 best books like i'm alive / it hurts / i love it (Joshua Jennifer Espinoza): Mostly Dead Things, The Octopus Museum: Poems, Look, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Meditations in an Emergency, Bluets, If They Come for Us, Selected Poems, Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog, Tap Out: Poems

Mostly Dead Things

Author	Kristen Arnett
ISBN	1947793306

One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into...

The Octopus Museum: Poems

Author	Brenda Shaughnessy
ISBN	0525655654

This collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics.

Informed by Brenda Shaughnessy's craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother, the poems in The Octopus Museum...

Look

Author	Solmaz Sharif
ISBN	1555977448

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award*
*Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award*Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of...

Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Author	Kaveh Akbar
ISBN	1938584678

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." —Fanny Howe

This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous...

Meditations in an Emergency

Author	Frank O'Hara
ISBN	0802134521

Frank O’Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, "which, by its vitality alone, became the...

Bluets

Author	Maggie Nelson
ISBN	1933517409

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...

A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...

If They Come for Us

Author

Fatimah Asghar

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing.

In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly captures...

Selected Poems

Author

Mary Ruefle

"Mary Ruefle is one of the brilliant American poets of our time. Her work combines the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens. The result is a poetry at once ornate and intense; linguistically marvelous, yes, but also as visceral as anything you are likely...

Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog

Author	Paul Monette
ISBN	0312026021

Love Alone was written during the five months after Paul Monette's lover and long-life companion, Roger Horwitz, died of AIDS.

If Grief, Mourning, Pain, Suffering of Loss and Love have been EVER put into words, then by Paul Monette in his eighteen Elegies for Rog. Eighteen poems.
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Tap Out: Poems

Author	Edgar Kunz
ISBN	1328518124

"Charts the gritty, physical terrain of blue-collar masculinity."―New York Times New & Noteworthy
 “Kunz arrives with real poetic talent.”—The Millions, “Must Read Poetry”

"[A] gritty, insightful debut." — Washington Post

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