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Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997

10 best books like Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997 (June Jordan): The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, The Tradition, In the Name of Salome, Look, Forgotten Country, A Fortune for Your Disaster, Bingo Love

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
AuthorEsmé Weijun Wang
ISBN1555978274
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
AuthorOcean Vuong
ISBN0525562028
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's...
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Authorbell hooks
ISBN0896082210
A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction for the 1980s. Continuing the debates surrounding her controversial first book, Ain't I A Woman,...
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
AuthorT Kira Madden
ISBN1635571855
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant...
The Tradition
AuthorJericho Brown
ISBN1556594860
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation?...
In the Name of Salome
AuthorJulia Alvarez
ISBN0452282438
The Barnes & Noble Review - La Musa de la Patria In recent years, novelists Mona Simpson (Anywhere But Here), Karla Kuban (Marchlands) and Susannah Moore (My Old Sweetheart), among numerous others, have memorably explored the mother-daughter relationship, showing us the conflicted, often...
Look
AuthorSolmaz Sharif
ISBN1555977448
*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...
Forgotten Country
AuthorCatherine Chung
ISBN1594488088
Weaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss, the conflict between obligation and freedom, and a family struggling to find its way out of silence and back to one another.

On the night...
A Fortune for Your Disaster
AuthorHanif Abdurraqib
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book...
Bingo Love
AuthorTee Franklin
Bingo Love is a story of a same-sex romance that spans over 60 years. A chance meeting at church bingo in 1963 brings Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray together. Through their formative years, these two women develop feelings for each other and finally profess their love for one another.

Forced...
Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body.
AuthorJessamyn Stanley
ISBN0761193111
From the unforgettable teacher Jessamyn Stanley comes Every Body Yoga, a book that breaks all the stereotypes.

It’s a book of inspiration for beginners of all shapes and sizes: If Jessamyn could transcend these emotional and physical barriers, so can we.

It’s a book for readers...
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
AuthorSonya Renee Taylor
ISBN1626569762
A global movement guided by love

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.

The Body Is Not an Apology offers...
The White Card: A Play
AuthorClaudia Rankine
ISBN1555978398
A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen

The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements,...
Electric Arches
AuthorEve L. Ewing
ISBN1608468569
Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances, and identifies everyday...
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
AuthorAlfie Kohn
ISBN0743487486
Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" — and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking "What do kids need — and how can...
Four Reincarnations: Poems
AuthorMax Ritvo
ISBN1571314903
Published shortly after his death in August 2016 at age 25, Max Ritvo's collection of poetry is reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising. When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body.

The poems of Four Reincarnations are...
Save Twilight: Selected Poems
AuthorJulio Cortázar
ISBN0872863336
The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music, art, and history, and most of his own emotional geography,...
That This
AuthorSusan Howe
ISBN0811219186
“What treasures of knowledge we cluster around.” That This is a collection in three pieces. “Disappearance Approach,” an essay about the sudden death of the author’s husband (“land of darkness or darkness itself you shadow mouth”), begins the book with paintings by Poussin, an autopsy,...
Afterland
AuthorMai Der Vang
ISBN1555977707
The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn Forché

When I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter what
the current gives. When we reach the camp,

there will be thousands like us.
If I make it onto the plane, you must...
Blues: For All the Changes
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN0688156983
Intimate, edgy, and unapologetic, Blues: For All the Changes bears the mark of Nikki Giovanni's unmistakable voice.In a career that has spanned three decades, Giovanni has created an indispensable body of work and earned a place amoung the nation's most celebrated and controversial poets; Gloria...
The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
AuthorKaren Kelsky
ISBN0553419420
The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D.  into their ideal job
 
Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small...
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
AuthorAlfie Kohn
ISBN0395710901
The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological...
Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way
AuthorMayim Bialik
A funny, honest, and practical guide to attachment parenting from actress, mother, and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik.

Mayim Bialik was the child star of the popular 1990s TV sitcom Blossom, but she definitely didn’t follow the typical child-star trajectory. Instead, Mayim got her PhD...
Alight
AuthorFady Joudah
ISBN1556594224
"With anatomical precision, Joudah illustrates scenes that are at once uncanny and contemporary, be it a Bedouin woman's lavender mourning veil, the chrome doors to an alchemist's home, or the mysterious speaker in 'Smoke,' who exits abruptly and claims to have 'scripts to write and scrolls to find,'...
Simulacra
AuthorAirea D. Matthews
ISBN0300223978
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize

A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews’s superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power,...
One Day I Will Save Myself: Poems in English and Spanish
AuthorElvira Sastre
The debut US poetry collection from social media star Elvira Sastre, exploring the sharp, slippery moments that turn a beloved relationship into something self-destructive.

Counting the days that pass after a devastating breakup, Elvira Sastre confronts the haunting questions that...
Spit Back a Boy
AuthorIain Haley Pollock
ISBN0820339083
Iain Haley Pollock’s poems cover the ground from a woman late to catfish supper to an ancient queen who howls, “Sea, you is ugly,” from the creaking of slave ships launched from Lancaster to gunfire on a contemporary Philadelphia street. Such lyric moments find grounding in stories woven through...
Revelations
AuthorRuben Quesada
ISBN1943977542
Beautiful, haunting, precise, surprising...an exquisite chapbook. From my review at RHINO reviews:

The title Revelations and the cover’s detail from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights signal that Ruben Quesada’s new chapbook will travel in and upend religion. While the collection...
Bless This Mess: A Modern Guide to Faith and Parenting in a Chaotic World
AuthorMolly Baskette
ISBN1984824120
Pairing modern psychology with liberal Christian spirituality, Dr. Ellen O'Donnell and Rev. Molly Baskette deliver a clear and compelling modus operandi for making family life work--one rooted in research on parenting and Christian values, peppered with personal stories and a heavy dose of humor.

When...
Cruel Fiction
AuthorWendy Trevino
ISBN1934639257
Cruel Fiction brings together new material with celebrated work published here for the first time in book form, including the provocative and charged “Brazilian Is Not a Race,” a sonnet sequence meditating on race, nation, and history seen from the author’s native Rio Grande Valley. This is...
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