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Bullets into Bells

Bullets into Bells

Beacon Press, December 2017. Paper Back. A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean... More

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Bullets into Bells is an important collection of voices. It pairs poetry from poets like Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Yosef Komunyakaa, and plenty more with your everyday citizens' response to gun violence. It will move you.
Citizen: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine.

Citizen: An American Lyric

Graywolf Press, October 2014. Trade Paperback. * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A.... More

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Exit West. Mohsin Hamid.

Exit West

Riverhead Books, March 2018. Unknown. WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "A breathtaking novel...[that] arrives at an urgent time." -NPR "It was as if Hamid knew what was going... More

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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us. Hanif Abdurraqib.

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Two Dollar Radio, November 2017. Paper Back. *Best Books of 2017 --NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review, Michigan Daily*American Booksellers Association (ABA) 'December 2017 Indie Next List Great Reads' *Midwest... More

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Look: Poems. Solmaz Sharif.

Look: Poems

Graywolf Press, July 2016. Paper Back. *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... More

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The Refugees. Viet Thanh Nguyen.

The Refugees

Grove Press, January 2018. Paper Back. Published in hardcover to astounding acclaim, The Refugees is the remarkable debut collection of short stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Sympathizer. In these powerful stories, written over a period of twenty years... More

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Viet Thanh Nguyen amazes me again with his prose, this time in the form of short stories ranging in perspective, but all of them being from refugees. Each story leaves you fuller than before with its beauty and depth. It provides so much empathy for those around us and people seeking refuge. What a timely book.
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