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Richard Siken’s *Crush* is a collection of fiercely intimate poems that won the 2004 Yale Younger Poets prize and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ poetry.

Ocean Vuong’s collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds blends precise, evocative language with lyrical sound, capturing intimate moments and the fleeting nature of life in a striking poetic voice.

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love. In the Hospital *My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no one wanted to be her friend. Everyone wanted to be soft cooing sympathies. Very reasonable pigeons. No one had the time & our solution to it was to buy shinier watches. We were enamored with what our wrists could declare. My mother was in the hospital & I didn't want to be her friend. Typical son. Tall latte, short tale, bad plot, great wifi in the atypical café. My mother was in the hospital & she didn't want to be her friend. She wanted to be the family grocery list. Low-fat yogurt, firm tofu. She didn't trust my father to be it. You always forget something, she said, even when I do the list for you. Even then.*

Revised early poems by the influential American poet Audre Lorde, presented alongside nine previously unpublished works and an essay on the revision process and the transformative nature of the poems themselves.

In The Rest of Love, poet Carl Phillips probes the tension between belief and disbelief, using concise language to explore how desire shapes our myths of the physical, emotional, and spiritual.