Books like Wanting in Arabic by Trish Salah

A groundbreaking memoir that blends personal narrative with rigorous theory, charting Maggie Nelson’s queer romance, pregnancy, and the politics of love and family.

A powerful debut collection in which Phillip B. Williams uses precise, urban‑themed poems to confront racism, homophobia and the complexities of desire in African American gay lives.

A comprehensive anthology of June Jordan’s poetry, spanning over six hundred pages of lyricism, elegiac verse, and vibrant vernacular, including unpublished “last poems” that showcase her powerful engagement with identity, activism, and human connection.

A vibrant collection of Judy Grahn’s poetry, blending newer verses with selections from her earlier works, embodying the spirit of social movements and celebrating love, community, earth, and spirit.

Carl Phillips’ sixth collection, Pastoral, weaves longing, desire, and spiritual longing into a contemplative exploration of the inner landscape, framed by pastoral tradition and lyrical rhythm.

When a runaway waitress leaves her lover and her Dalmatian dog to hit the highway, she journals her road trip in heartfelt letters while composing poetry that explores love, heartache, and madness.

Fire to Fire compiles Mark Doty’s most celebrated poems alongside new work, reflecting on human mortality, fleeting beauty, desire, and art’s transformative power.

The Transgender Studies Reader compiles fifty key texts, introduced by Susan Stryker, charting the field’s development within queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality.

What the Body Told is the second book of poetry from Rafael Campo, a practicing physician, a gay Cuban American, and winner of the National Poetry Series 1993 Open Competition. Exploring the themes begun in his first book, The Other Man Was Me, Campo extends the search for identity into new realms of fantasy and physicality. He travels inwardly to the most intimate spaces of the imagination where sexuality and gender collide and where life crosses into death. Whether facing a frenetic hospital emergency room to assess a patient critically ill with AIDS, or breathing in the quiet of his mother’s closet, Campo proposes with these poems an alternative means of healing and exposes the extent to which words themselves may be the most vital working parts of our bodies. The secret truths in What the Body Told, as the title implies, are already within each of us; in these vivid and provocative poems, Rafael Campo gives them a voice. Lost in the Hospital It’s not that I don’t like the hospital. Those small bouquets of flowers, pert and brave. The smell of antiseptic cleansers. The ill, so wistful in their rooms, so true. My friend, the one who’s dying, took me out To where the patients go to smoke, IV’s And oxygen tanks attached to them— A tiny patio for skeletons. We shared A cigaratte, which was delicious but Too brief. I held his hand; it felt Like someone’s keys. How beautiful it was, The sunlight pointing down at us, as if We were important, full of life, unbound. I wandered for a moment where his ribs Had made a space for me, and there, beside The thundering waterfall of is heart, I rubbed my eyes and thought “I’m lost.”

An art historian’s trip to Saint‑Paul‑de‑Vence turns into a suspenseful murder mystery when a key witness is found dead in the village fountain, forcing her and her husband into a dangerous amateur investigation.

A curated anthology of LGBTQ poetry from 1950 to the present, featuring American voices from the gay and lesbian communities.