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When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Quest

10 best books like When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Quest (Jimmy Santiago Baca): The Undefeated, Deaf Republic: Poems, The Tradition, Where Reasons End, Year of the Monkey, A Prayer for Travelers, Blackbird, Vol. 1, Magical Negro, Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins, Soft Science

The Undefeated
AuthorKwame Alexander
ISBN1328780961
The Newbery Award-winning author of THE CROSSOVER pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree.
Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma...
Deaf Republic: Poems
AuthorIlya Kaminsky
ISBN1555978312
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...
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?...
Where Reasons End
AuthorYiyun Li
A brilliant writer imagines a fictional conversation between a mother and the teenage son she lost to suicide. Yiyun Li confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.

The narrator writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we...
Year of the Monkey
AuthorPatti Smith
ISBN0525657681
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
A Prayer for Travelers
AuthorRuchika Tomar
This daring debut novel propels readers into the world of Penny and Cale, two marginalized young women who forge an intense bond against a constricting backdrop of violence and isolation in Nevada's northern desert.

Cale, a bookish loner of mysterious parentage, was abandoned by her mother...
Blackbird, Vol. 1
AuthorSam Humphries
ISBN1534312595
Nina Rodriguez knows a hidden magical world run by ruthless cabals is hiding in Los Angeles. When a giant magic beast kidnaps her sister, Nina must confront her past (and her demons) to get her sister back and reclaim her life. Don't miss the first collection of the smash-hit neo-noir fantasy series from...
Magical Negro
AuthorMorgan Parker
ISBN1947793187
Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They...
Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins
AuthorJeff Lemire
ISBN1534310673
In the series that writer MARK MILLAR (HIT GIRL) called "the best comic of 2018," rural mystery and urban horror collide in the second volume of the runaway best-selling series by JEFF LEMIRE and ANDREA SORRENTINO, the acclaimed creative duo behind Green Arrow and Old Man Logan.

The lives of...
Soft Science
AuthorFranny Choi
ISBN1938584996
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness―how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation....
Even this Page is White
AuthorVivek Shraya
ISBN1551526417
Amazingly, this is not the first book of poems by a transgender or gender fluid Canadian person-of-color that I've read in the last two weeks (the previous was A Place Called No Homeland, also highly recommended.) Another great read for National Poetry Month.

The subheadings of these poems...
So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN1556595387
"It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin." --Salon

"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." --Margaret Atwood

"There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le...
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
AuthorJohn Hendrix
ISBN1419728385
Interweaving handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German church embrace Hitler's agenda of hatred....
Lima :: Limón
AuthorNatalie Scenters-Zapico
In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things. Lima :: Limón illuminates both the sweet and the sour of the immigrant experience, of life as a woman in the U.S. and Mexico, and of the politics of the present day. Drawing inspiration...
The Camomile Lawn
AuthorMary Wesley
ISBN0099499142
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most of them it is the last summer of their youth, with the heady exhilarations...
Bicycle in a Ransacked City: an Elegy
AuthorAndrés Cerpa
These poems blaze in an inferno of lament and love as a son cares for his father who suffers from a debilitating illness. The speaker in Bicycle in a Ransacked City paints an emotional landscape from childhood to the present, while trying to find glimpses of happiness in the imminent painful loss.

This...
If They Come for Us
AuthorFatimah 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...
How to Love a Country
AuthorRichard Blanco
ISBN0807025917
A new collection from the renowned inaugural poet exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, in accessible and emotive verses

As presidential inaugural poet, memoirist, public speaker, educator, and advocate, Richard Blanco has crisscrossed the nation inviting...
Love Poems for Married People
AuthorJohn Kenney
ISBN0525540008
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people.

Full of brilliant wit, dynamic energy, and a heavy dose of reality, Love Poems for Married People...
The Crazy Bunch
AuthorWillie Perdomo
ISBN0143132695
From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era

Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language...
The Sound of Drowning
AuthorKatherine Fleet
ISBN1624147119
Meredith Hall has a secret. Every night she takes the ferry to meet Ben, her best friend and first love. Though their relationship must remain a secret, they’ve been given a second chance, and Mer's determined to make it work. She lost Ben once before and discovered the awful reality: she doesn't know...
Tap Out: Poems
AuthorEdgar Kunz
ISBN1328518124
"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

Approach these...
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
AuthorJohn Waters
ISBN1250223946
"[Just] like reading a description of a Waters film is nothing like seeing it on the screen, listening to him tell his own stories brings the context and inflection needed to truly appreciate his art. A singular experience." — Booklist

This program is read by the author and includes a bonus...
Post Traumatic Hood Disorder
AuthorDavid Tomas Martinez
ISBN1946448095
"One of the most exciting and visceral poets of his generation." —Tony Hoagland
"Look at homie on the beach picking shells in dress shoes," David Tomas Martinez writes in his raw, electrifying second collection. In his debut, Hustle, Martinez offered a kaleidoscopic coming-of-age narrative...
Antigonick
AuthorAnne Carson
ISBN0811219577
Antigonick is a translation of Sophokle's Antigone only in the loosest sense – with significant changes and metatextual additions to the original, an extra character, and illustrations with interpretations left open to the reader, it could easily be considered a different work altogether.

With...
Couplehood
AuthorPaul Reiser
ISBN0553573136
In the tradition of the #1 best-seller SeinLanguage, Bantam Books proudly presents the first book by Paul Reiser, television's sharpest, funniest observer of love, marriage and other mysteries of life. A veteran comic performer, Reiser is best-known as the co-creator and star of the highly-rated...
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
AuthorNick Flynn
ISBN1555975747
New poetry by the acclaimed writer Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the Bomb

electrocution, no―the boy stood in the hot-hot room
stammering I did stammering I did stammering I
did stammering I did stammering everything you say I did
I...
Citizen Illegal
AuthorJosé Olivarez
ISBN1608469549
In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything...
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
AuthorAustin Kleon
ISBN1523506644
Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple...
Remembering Roth
AuthorJames Atlas
1 hr and 21 mins

In 1977, when he was 28, James Atlas published his first book, a biography of the poet Delmore Schwartz, and was stunned to receive a congratulatory letter from Philip Roth. He had been moved by the tragic story it told.

Thus began a friendship that lasted, with a few intervals,...
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