Subjects & Themes - Family

  • Rodeo

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    Winner of the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, selected by Patricia Smith, this collection of formalist poetry is part ode, part elegy, and serves as a heartfelt journey in overcoming grief and falli

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    • Series: Donald Justice Poetry Prize
    • Author: Wilkinson, Sunni Brown
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: April 22 2025
    • ISBN10: 163768102X
    • Language: English
  • Beautiful Chaos: On Motherhood, Finding Yourself, and Overwhelming Love

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    INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER

    From Instagram sensation Jessica Urlichs, an inspiringly vulnerable collection of poems exploring the sacred, tender, and beautifully chaotic moments of motherhood

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    • Author: Urlichs, Jessica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 29 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798217178018
    • Language: English
  • Mother/Land

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    Mother/land, winner of the 2020 Hudson Prize, is focused on the intersection of motherhood and immigration and its effects on a speaker’s relationship to place, others and self. It investigates the mu

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    • Author: Lima, Ananda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 110
    • Publish Date: October 15 2021
    • ISBN10: 1625570260
    • Language: English
  • life after you

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    From the breakout author of save me an orange comes her second book, a collection of poetry focused on letting go and reminding that every ending holds the seed of a new beginning.

    In life after you, H

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    • Author: Grace, Hayley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 124
    • Publish Date: December 17 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798218572372
    • Language: English
  • One Wild Word Away

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    When tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe and cut a ragged seam between past and present. In One Wild Word Away, Geffrey Davis weaves a deft set of poem… [more below]

    • Author: Davis, Geffrey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 75
    • Publish Date: April 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 1960145169
    • Language: English
  • Whispers of Hope: Poetic Reflections on Family and Life

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    Whispers of Hope: Poetic Reflections on Family and Life” is a powerful collection of poems by Liam Sawyer, each one reflecting the author’s unique journey from his humble beginnings in Ukraine to the

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    • Author: Sawyer, Liam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 236
    • Publish Date: December 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798989057603
    • Language: English
  • Accidental Garden

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    “I admire these poems for their willingness to encounter; to give us the saw-toothed shark, the microbe, the manatee, and, of course, the moon. Here is a poet who holds, so dearly, all that slips away… [more below]

    • Author: Prescott, Catherine Esposito
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: February 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957062061
    • Language: English
  • Let Our Bodies Change the Subject

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    National Jewish Book Award Finalist
    Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist

    Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence

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  • If They Come for Us: Poems

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    “A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”–Booklist
    “Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones.”–Elle

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    • Author: Asghar, Fatimah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: August 07 2018
    • ISBN10: 052550978X
    • Language: English
  • Book of Kin

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    A debut collection that draws on the poet’s Iranian heritage to process life-altering loss and grief.

    Darius Atefat-Peckham’s debut poetry collection follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of

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    • Author: Atefat-Peckham, Darius
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 25 2024
    • ISBN10: 1637680961
    • Language: English
  • Domestirexia: Poems

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    A poetry collection contorting the idea of home away from being a site of comfort and nourishment by coaxing the reader to think about domesticity in knotty new ways

    Domestirexia goes beyond the entan

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    • Author: Novak, Joanna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: July 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1593767633
    • Language: English
  • Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car: Comics for Beautiful, Awful and Ordinary Days

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    Jordan Bolton’s Blue Sky Through The Window of A Moving Car is a poignant collection of comics that explore universal experiences and emotions through art and poetry. Small yet powerful, and equal par[more below]

    • Author: Bolton, Jordan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: November 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 1524895091
    • Language: English
  • An Authentic Life

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    An Authentic Life is an exacting and fearless interrogation of the education one receives from the institutions of academia and family.

    Sprawling yet urgent, meditative yet lucid, the poems in Jennife

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    • Author: Chang, Jennifer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1556596995
    • Language: English
  • Love as Invasive Species: Poems

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    Shame has kept so many women’s stories silenced, with a cultural lineage of lack that asks women to give up their own desire while simultaneously performing cultural expectations of desire for others.

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    • Author: Kombiyil, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: September 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 196032960X
    • Language: English
  • The Bearable Slant of Light

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    The Bearable Slant of Light asks what the burden and gift of madness brings to a family, to our world.

    What can we bear and what can we lift when a beloved, when our world, is light-struck and mad? The

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    • Author: Edwards, Lynnell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: April 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 1636281281
    • Language: English
  • Father Verses Sons: A Correspondence in Poems

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    When the global pandemic forced his ninety-six-year-old father into isolation, filmmaker Ari Gold became concerned that loneliness would kill his father’s spirits. As a prolific novelist who began wri

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    • Author: Gold, Herbert
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: March 26 2024
    • ISBN10: 164428426X
    • Language: English
  • Matter / Mother

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    In Earth-based cultures, Mothers are held at the center. As life-bearers, they are treated with the same care and respect as Mother Earth. However, in industrialized societies where the Earth is both

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    • Author: Tierney, April
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 195636899X
    • Language: English
  • Skip Tracer

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    Blending poetry and prose, music, and genealogy, Jive Poetic’s Skip Tracer is a memoir structured as a “hybrid sound system” (complete with “records,” “tracks,” “decks,” and “channels”), expertly cura

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    • Author: Poetic, Jive
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: July 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 1324093161
    • Language: English
  • Recurrent

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    What if the connection, at the root of our existence, is in fact a connection and a severance? How does a sense of self form in relation to connections that hold within them such intensive ruptures an

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    • Author: Mottram, Darla
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 134
    • Publish Date: May 24 2024
    • ISBN10: 1959118986
    • Language: English
  • Draw Me Without Boundaries

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    Powerful love between a grandmother and a granddaughter animates the voices in this poignant series of inner monologues set against the backdrop of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic. Margar… [more below]

    • Author: Gibson, Margaret
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 126
    • Publish Date: July 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 0807182451
    • Language: English