Hispanic & Latino

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2019Ada Limon is a poet of ecstatic revelation . . . a book of deep wisdom and urgent vulnerability' Tracy K. Smith, Guardian'Vulnerable, tender, acute . . . The Carrying is a gift' Natasha...

Beautiful Sad Eyes, Weary Waiting for Love is a two-book collection from bestselling poets r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake that explores the duality of the heart to cling to darkness while fighting to feel the light.A unique duet between two powerhouse...

A joint poetry collection from the virally popular and bestselling poets r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake. What are you hiding behind your smile? If those empty bottles that line the walls of your room could speak, what tales would they spill? So much of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949540376Author Amy RoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Steel Toe BooksPublisher Steel Toe BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596346Author Christopher SotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never...

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves-from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon."I have always been too sensitive, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476073Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from...

From the authors of The New York Times bestseller Empty Bottles Full of Stories comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose.The heart will ache, the soul will feel weary, and the mind will be weighed down by the things you wish to forget...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529604Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 1040Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Smoking Lovely's explorations of poetry and the neoliberal city at the intersection of community and commodity. In this radically revised new edition, Perdomo shifts the poem into mostly second person, thereby further accentuating its self-reflexive and...

From the authors of The New York Times bestsellers Empty Bottles Full of Stories and Falling Toward the Moon comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose.There's a harshness in the air; the season is changing its colors. The rain is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595240Author Rachel McKibbensFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945322037Author J Iron WordFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Monarch Publishing, LLCPublisher Monarch Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast's wildfire epidemic, Naffis-Sahely's reflections on class, race, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947879485Author Cynthia PelayoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Raw Dog Screaming PressPublisher Raw Dog Screaming PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692072639Author J Iron WordFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Iron Society LLCPublisher Iron Society LLCWeight(grams) 222g

The poems in Santa Tarantula grant an urgent and haunting voice to the voiceless, explore ancient narratives, delve into Cuban history and identity, and confront trauma and violence. Jordan Pérez explores the tension between fear and reprieve, between...

From the author of I Love My Love comes this spiritual inquiry in four parts - the blues, epiphany, prayer, and rebirth. A Psalm for Us is Reyna "Biddy" Mays's soulful collection of prose, self-affirmations, spoken word poems, and short...

"One of the most exciting and visceral poets of his generation."-Tony Hoagland"Look at homie on the beach picking shells in dress shoes," David Tomas Martinez writes in his raw, electrifying second collection. In his debut, Hustle, Martinez offered a...

Dana Gioia has been hailed for decades as a master of traditional lyric forms, whose expansive and accessible poems are offerings of rare poignancy and insight. In Meet Me at the Lighthouse, he invites us back to old Los Angeles, where the shabby...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682410769Author Mark AnthonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint VAGABONDPublisher VAGABONDWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986437342Author Rodrigo ToscanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Fence BooksPublisher Fence BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 173mm * 188mm * 10mm

Volcanic eruptions and waves collide in Yaccaira Salvatierra’s explosive debut collection Sons of Salt, which explores the duality of personal and political landscapes as well as legacies of violence within Mexican-American communities.Sons of Salt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218301842Author Daniel LehnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Daniel LehnerPublisher Daniel LehnerWeight(grams) 386g

Author has compelling backstory: teenage father, former gang member, drug dealer, and high school dropout. Author is well-connected to Houston literary scene as a PhD candidate at the University of Houston and editor at Gulf Coast Author is an eloquent...

One of America's foremost prose poets, Richard Garcia's The Chair simultaneously takes place in the natural world and a speculative world rich in the fabulist tradition: historical figures roam like ghosts, time is pulled and twisted, and narrative spins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400034994Author Ana CastilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 184gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A conjuration of ancient consciousness aimed at rehumanizing our contemporary cyborg condition."Referring to the American continent, 'Abya Yala' ('land of life') is a pre-Columbian term of the Guna people of Panamá and Colombia. Harrison wrestles with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957840192Author Vincent CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Mouthfeel PressPublisher Mouthfeel PressWeight(grams) 136g

This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a rising star in the poetry community. In Bad Mexican, Bad American, the minimalist, working-class aesthetic of a “disadvantaged Brown kid” takes wing in prose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957840024Author Diana RivieraFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Mouthfeel PressPublisher Mouthfeel PressWeight(grams) 64g

Jimmy Santiago Baca's brilliantly received memoir, A Place to Stand, earned him the prestigious International Prize and offered a keyhole view into the brutal personal history that shaped -- and continues to inform -- his raw, incisive voice. In C-Train...

"These musical poems sing the mystical connections between all lighthouses and those who love them. From Ulysses and Penelope to the angel of dreams to the girl who fell in love with the lighthouse keeper, this book is full of hopeful, desperate lives...

In The Persistence of Objects Richard Garcia gives us a poetry rich in the improvisational surrealist tradition while still deeply rooted in the humanist tradition-this is sur-realism with heart. A master of radically inventive humor, Garcia also pays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737992738Author Natalie GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Alegria PublishingPublisher Alegria PublishingWeight(grams) 268g

Praise for Victor Hernández Cruz:"Bilingual since childhood, Mr. Cruz writes poems about his native Puerto Rico and elsewhere which often speak to us with a forked tongue, sometimes in a highly literate Spanglish. . . . He's a funny, hard-edged poet,...

A rhythmic blend of language and myth, this collection creates a poetic atlas of cultures as it documents the centuries-long, open-sea migrations from Africa to the Caribbean to the Florida coast. The image of the “wise fish” is recurrent in these poems,...

"There is no other poet who writes like Torres. Elaborate, chanting, pointed, and granite in their 'octaves of shine,' his poems have it all. They are a real and gritty pleasure to read, a necessary tonic to these toxic times." -John YauWhat does a book...