Poetry & Novels in Verse

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Our Beautiful Darkness

A Graphic Novel

by ‍ Ondjaki, Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Hardcover: Jul 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in Our Beautiful Darkness, a fully illustrated YA novella from celebrated Angolan author Ondjaki and illustrator António Jorge Gonç...

Wings in the Wild

by Margarita Engle

Hardcover: Apr 2023 | Paperback: Apr 2024

Critics' Consensus:

This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights.

Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves

by J Drew Lanham

Hardcover: Apr 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, comes a sensuous new collection in his signature mix of poetry and prose.

The Moon That Turns You Back

Poems

by Hala Alyan

Paperback: Mar 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war.

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

by Franny Choi

Hardcover: Nov 2022 | Paperback: Nov 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and...

Time Is a Mother

by Ocean Vuong

Hardcover: Apr 2022 | Paperback: Jun 2023

Critics' Consensus:

The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong.

Punching the Air

by Yusef Salaam, Ibi Zoboi

Hardcover: Sep 2020 | Paperback: Dec 2021

Critics' Consensus:

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and ...

Shout

by Laurie Halse Anderson

Hardcover: Mar 2019 | Paperback: Mar 2020

Critics' Consensus:

A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!

Audacity

by Melanie Crowder

Hardcover: Jan 2015 | Paperback: Jan 2016

Critics' Consensus:

The inspiring story of Clara Lemlich, whose fight for equal rights led to the largest strike by women in American history

Darwin

A Life in Poems

by Ruth Padel

Hardcover: Mar 2009 | Paperback: Oct 2012

Critics' Consensus:

This remarkable book brings us an intimate and moving interpretation of the life and work of Charles Darwin, by Ruth Padel, an acclaimed British poet and a direct descendant of the famous scientist.

Killer Verse

Poems of Murder and Mayhem

by Harold Schechter (editor), Kurt Brown (editor)

Hardcover: Sep 2011

Critics' Consensus:

A spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder.

The Best of It

New and Selected Poems

by Kay Ryan

Hardcover: Mar 2010 | Paperback: Apr 2011

Critics' Consensus:

A major event in American poetry: The poet’s own selection of more than two hundred poems, offering both longtime followers and new readers a stunning retrospective of her earlier work as well as a generous selection of powerful new poems.

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