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2023 Featured Fall Books List

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Jacket cover for Survivor’s Notebook by Dan O’Brien
Survivor’s Notebook by Dan O’Brien

Acre Books, September 2023

A powerful companion to 2021’s Our Cancers, this prose-poem sequence is truly a survivor’s notebook, using photos and the tools of memoir to evoke the ways in which disaster can constellate our past, present, and future.

Paperback, $17 

Jacket cover for Dual by Matthew Minicucci 
Dual by Matthew Minicucci 

Acre Books, October 2023

In his fourth poetry collection, Matthew Minicucci examines masculinity and gun violence as he brings to life the grammatical concept of the dual, a number that is neither singular nor plural.

Paperback, $17 

Jacket cover for Beautiful Sad Eyes, Weary Waiting for Love by r.h. Sin, Robert Drake
Beautiful Sad Eyes, Weary Waiting for Love by r.h. Sin, Robert Drake

Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2023

A two-book collection from best-selling powerhouse poets r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake that explores the duality of the heart, which clings to darkness while fighting to feel the light.

Paperback, $24.99

Jacket cover for Daughter: The Soul Journey of a Black Woman in America Having a Human Experience by Ebonee Davis
Daughter: The Soul Journey of a Black Woman in America Having a Human Experience by Ebonee Davis

Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2023

Ebonee Davis’s debut collection is a must-read for anyone having a uniquely human experience in an ever-devolving world. It is a powerful reminder that the journey to true freedom must always begin with the journey within.

Paperback, $16.99

Jacket cover for Glass Hearts & Broken Promises by Kayla McCullough
Glass Hearts & Broken Promises by Kayla McCullough

Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2023

An inspired debut from a talented new voice in poetry and prose, Kayla McCullough’s Glass Hearts & Broken Promises is the best friend you need when it’s time to pick up the broken pieces.

Paperback, $16.99

Jacket cover for the Rupi Kaur Trilogy Set
Rupi Kaur Trilogy Boxed Set by Rupi Kaur

Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2023

A beautifully designed boxed set of the collections that solidified Rupi Kaur as the poetic voice of a generation: milk and honey, the sun and her flowers, and home body. A must-have for poetry fans.

Boxed set, $50

Jacket cover for Survival Takes a Wild Imagination by Fariha Róisín
Survival Takes a Wild Imagination by Fariha Róisín

Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2023

Poet and activist Fariha Róisín writes, prays, claws, and scratches her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received and the kindness she couldn’t give.

Paperback, $16.99

Jacket cover for The Way Forward by Yung Pueblo
The Way Forward by Yung Pueblo

Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2023

In this final installment of his poetic trilogy, #1 New York Times bestselling poet Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes while guiding readers further, toward a life lived authentically, intuitively, and in harmony with others.

Paperback, $16.99

Jacket cover for Words of a Goat Princess by Jessie Reyez
Words of a Goat Princess by Jessie Reyez

Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2023

A moving poetic debut from singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez, Words of a Goat Princess is everything you love about Jessie’s work—her rawness, her love affair with the ugly truths about humanity, and much more.

Paperback, $16.99

Jacket cover for The Letters I Will Never Send by Isabella Dorta
The Letters I Will Never Send by Isabella Dorta

Andrews McMeel Publishing, November 2023

TikTok poet Isabella Dorta urges you to leave nothing unsaid and to find comfort in more than one hundred moving poems on love, heartbreak, mental health, and self-discovery, written in the form of confessional letters. 

Paperback, $16.99

Jacket cover for Love & Misadventure, 10th anniversary ed. by Lang Leav
Love & Misadventure, 10th anniversary ed. by Lang Leav

Andrews McMeel Publishing, November 2023

An elegant hardcover collector’s edition celebrating the tenth anniversary of Lang Leav’s best-selling Love & Misadventure. Features a special foreword by the author, highly personal annotations, newly colored artworks, and a ribbon marker. 

Hardcover, $24.99

Jacket cover for People Not Things: Love Poems and Paintings for Humanity by Genesis Be
People Not Things: Love Poems and Paintings for Humanity by Genesis Be

Andrews McMeel Publishing, November 2023

Poignant and moving, this honest debut collection of poetry and paintings from artist and activist Genesis Be bravely examines what it means to stay hopeful during the arduous journey to freedom.

Paperback, $16.99

Jacket cover for Discordant by Richard Hamilton
Discordant by Richard Hamilton

Autumn House Press, September 2023

“Richard Hamilton’s Discordant is a searing examination of injustice, from criticisms of the U.S. military-industrial complex and its failing health care system to multilayered observations of marginalization through the lenses of race, class, gender, and sexuality.”

Paperback, $16.95; e-Book, $15

Jacket cover for Rock Stars by Matt Mason
Rock Stars by Matt Mason

Button Poetry, September 2023

An ode and ovation to what our ears taught us before we knew what to say, Matt Mason’s Rock Stars riffs on music, poetry, and sports, taking us on the coming-of-age road trip of a lifetime.

Paperback, e-Book, and Audiobook, $18 

Jacket cover for The King of Terrors by Jim Johnstone
The King of Terrors by Jim Johnstone

Coach House Books, September 2023

Written after a brain tumor diagnosis early in the pandemic, The King of Terrors is a meditation on living with illness and the forces required to heal.

Paperback, $17.95 

Jacket cover for Love Language by Nasser Hussain
Love Language by Nasser Hussain

Coach House Books, September 2023

In his follow-up to SKY WRI TEI NGS, Nasser Hussain tackles the absurdity of the English language through a modern take on love poems. 

Paperback, $17.95

Jacket cover for Quiet Armor by Stevie Edwards
Quiet Armor by Stevie Edwards

Curbstone Books, October 2023



Quiet Armor, the third full-length collection from poet Stevie Edwards, examines how capitalism and patriarchy impact romantic relationships and, more broadly, intimacy, showing us not only desperate battles but also healing embraces.

Paperback, $18

Jacket cover for Fixer by Edgar Kunz
Fixer by Edgar Kunz

Ecco, August 2023

From the award-winning author of Tap Out, Edgar Kunz’s sophomore poetry collection rolls up its sleeves to reckon with the legacies of labor and the question of worth in a system built on exploitation.

Paperback, $17.99

Jacket cover for Dirt Songs by Kari Gunter-Seymour
Dirt Songs by Kari Gunter-Seymour

Eastover Press, February 2023

Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour’s collection of poems, Dirt Songs, provides a uniquely intimate look at landscape and family generated from within Appalachia, recognizing that one story cannot accurately represent a region or its people.

Paperback, $19.99

Jacket cover for In Gorgeous Display by Ugochukwu Damian Okpara
In Gorgeous Display by Ugochukwu Damian Okpara

Fordham University Press, September 2023

A poignant exploration of queer identity, exile, and resilience and a tribute to victims of anti-queer violence, this collection unveils pain, hope, and the quest for self-reclamation amidst displacement. It is a journey through soulful poetic brilliance.

Paperback, $16.95

Jacket cover for Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery  by Pamela Sneed
Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery by Pamela Sneed

Fordham University Press, September 2023

First published in 1998, Pamela Sneed’s provocative debut collection dives deep into enslavement, sexuality, and trauma. Drawing parallels to Harriet Tubman’s journey, these poems offer a powerful cry for freedom, love, and justice.

Paperback, $16.95

Jacket cover for Papi Pichón by Dimitri Reyes
Papi Pichón by Dimitri Reyes

Get Fresh Publishing, July 2023

Dimitri Reyes’s first collection, Papi Pichón, is an ars poetica response to the Caribbean paradox wherein using words as categorically simple as “Puerto Rican,” in an attempt to identify the complex amalgamations of African, Indigenous, Spanish, and beyond, can only be described fully through myth. The cultural concepts that transcend history and lineage become mythology. Whether pigeon, child, abolitionist, artist, ghost, or thought, in one word, Papi Pichón is spirit—the guide that brings us all closer together.

Paperback, $18 

Jacket cover for Removal Acts by Erin Marie Lynch
Removal Acts by Erin Marie Lynch

Graywolf Press, October 2023

A remarkable debut exploring the silences left by displacement—of a people, of a lineage, and of the self.

 

“Critical, capacious, and ingenious turn after turn.” —Gabrielle Bates, author of Judas Goat

Paperback, $18

Jacket cover for El Rey of Gold Teeth by Reyes Ramirez
El Rey of Gold Teeth by Reyes Ramirez

Hub City Press, October 2023

El Rey of Gold Teeth explores living in the United States as a first-generation American of Salvadoran and Mexican descent. Reyes Ramirez’s debut poetry collection plays in spaces of both elegy and joy and introduces a vibrant new talent.

Paperback, $16

Jacket cover for Migrations & Other Exiles by Letisia Cruz
Migrations & Other Exiles by Letisia Cruz

Lost Horse Press, Spring 2023

In poetic language that is both sensuous and incisive, Migrations and Other Exiles questions the contradictory nature of human love. Precise and elegant, redemptive in its musicality and stunning imagery, it is a remarkable, stand-out collection.

Paperback, $21

Jacket cover for Alabama by Rodney Jones
Alabama by Rodney Jones

LSU Press, October 2023

At once a tale of cultural exile and familial loyalty, and an unflinching look at regional shame that doubles as a love story, all expressed with the intimate voice and vision of Rodney Jones.

Hardcover, $50; Paperback, $24.95; e-Book, $19.95

Jacket cover for A Scrap in the Blessings Jar by David Bottoms
A Scrap in the Blessings Jar by David Bottoms

LSU Press, August 2023

This collection of new and selected poems captures the evolution of David Bottoms’s spiritual quest to expose the extraordinary in the seemingly mundane while exploring the depths of our existential condition and common humanity.

Paperback, $18.95; e-Book, $9.95

Jacket cover for Old Gods: Poems by Clifford Brooks
Old Gods: Poems by Clifford Brooks

Mercer University Press, September 2023

Through the redemptive power of words, Clifford Brooks confronts personal battles of addiction, autism, heartbreak, otherness, anxiety, and escapism through journey poems. Bolstered by faith, family, friends, and vocation, the poet’s telling is ordered and meticulous.

Paperback, $20

Jacket cover for Bloodroot: Poems by Bill King
Bloodroot: Poems by Bill King

Mercer University Press, October 2023

In his first full-length collection, Bill King articulates a life grounded in the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains. By turns, his poems offer a language for how to love a world we must, ultimately, leave.

Paperback, $20

Jacket cover for Happy Neighborhood: Essays and Poems by Thomas Hallock
Happy Neighborhood: Essays and Poems by Thomas Hallock

Mercer University Press, October 2023

These thoughtful, carefully crafted meditations seek to define happiness at home. Although seemingly content, based on the title, the author of this collection candidly confronts the challenges he has faced as a father, spouse, and son.

Paperback, $22

Jacket cover for Where Here Is Hard to Say: Poems
Where Here Is Hard to Say: Poems by Gordon Johnston

Mercer University Press, October 2023

These poems engage with the losses and renewals of life—confronting the mortality of friends and parents, raising children, wrestling with depression, and trying to find stable footing in midlife as the ecstatic alternates with the awful.

Paperback, $20

Jacket cover for I Love Information: Poems by Courtney Bush
I Love Information: Poems by Courtney Bush

Milkweed Press, September 2023

“Winner of the National Poetry Series, Courtney Bush renders the bent and bendable logics of friendship, work, art, and love with startling wit. This is an amazing book.” —Anselm Berrigan



Paperback, $16

Jacket cover for Time Without Keys by Ida Vitale translated by Sarah Pollack
Time Without Keys by Ida Vitale translated by Sarah Pollack

New Directions, September 2023

A landmark collection by one of Latin America’s most important living writers, Time Without Keys, translated by Sarah Pollack, is the first volume of Vitale’s illustrious poetry to appear in the U.S.—and just in time for her hundredth birthday. 

Paperback, $18.95

Jacket cover for Sex Depression Animals by Mag Gabbert
Sex Depression Animals by Mag Gabbert

The Ohio State University Press, March 2023

In Sex Depression Animals, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery, insistent, and resistant terms. These poems recast the traumas of her adolescence while charting new paths toward linguistic and bodily autonomy as an adult.

Paperback, $16.95

Jacket cover for Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States edited by Luisa A. Igloria and Aileen Cassinetto 
Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States edited by Luisa A. Igloria and Aileen Cassinetto 

Paloma Press, September 2023

Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States is offered as a companion to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), and an additional opportunity to participate in urgent conversations about environmental justice. 

Paperback, $20

Jacket cover for Master by Simon Shiehh
Master by Simon Shieh

Sarabande Books, September 2023

Selected by Terrance Hayes as the winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Master is a stark, surreal, and imagistic reckoning with a traumatic past. 

Paperback, $17.95

Jacket cover for Poems for the Lord by Tony DeStefano
Poems for the Lord by Tony DeStefano

Self-published, June 2023

Tony DeStefano was first and foremost a songwriter. In order to write better songs he studied poetic technique. And so he fell in love with poetry. This chapbook consists of eighteen poems dedicated to his faith.

Paperback, $9.95

Jacket cover for Leaning Toward Light edited by Tess Taylor
Leaning Toward Light edited by Tess Taylor

Storey Publishing, August 2023

This beautiful poetry anthology offers a warm, inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voices that speak to the collective urge to grow, tend, and heal—an evocative celebration of our connection to the green world.

Hardcover, $22

Jacket cover for The Wonder of Small Things by James Crews
The Wonder of Small Things by James Crews

Storey Publishing, September 2023

The editor of the best-selling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness presents a collection of highly accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life.

Paperback, $14.99

Jacket cover for some blue, a little spur by Kris Falcon
some blue, a little spur by Kris Falcon

UnCollected Press, June 2023

In floating night rooms, in untethered cities, Kris Falcon's poems construct, line by line, an architecture of subjective states of singularly detailed, melancholy beauty.

— Amy England, author of Rooms Colors Dreams

Paperback, $15

Jacket cover for Yaguareté White by Diego Báez
Yaguareté White by Diego Báez

University of Arizona Press, February 2024

Yaguareté White is a lyrical exploration of Paraguayan whiteness, or white Latinidad, and what it means to see through a “colored” whiteness, with all of its tangled contradictions.

Paperback, $17.95

Jacket cover for Black Pastoral: Poems by Ariana Benson
Black Pastoral: Poems by Ariana Benson

University of Georgia Press, September 2023

Cave Canem Poetry Prize-winner, Black Pastoral illustrates the beauty inherent to Blackness, to nature, and to the remarkable relationship they share. Ariana Benson meditates upon the violence and tenderness that simultaneously characterize this entangling. 

Paperback, $21.95

Jacket cover for Survival Strategies: Poems by Tennison S. Black
Survival Strategies: Poems by Tennison S. Black

University of Georgia Press, September 2023



National Poetry Prize-winner Tennison S. Black’s fierce poems shape a language perfectly attuned to the mothering silences of the desert. With each poem, experience—whether tender or catastrophic—is birthed into new competence and clarity.  

Paperback, $19.95

Jacket cover for Eclipse of the Sun by Red Shuttleworth
Eclipse of the Sun by Red Shuttleworth

University of Nevada Press, August 2023

In this striking poetry collection, Red Shuttleworth, who holds the record as the oldest active boxer, professional or amateur, offers evocative imagery that unapologetically reveals the life of a boxer. 

Paperback and e-Book, $17

Jacket cover for Wrack Line by M. W. Jaeggle
Wrack Line by M. W. Jaeggle

University of Regina Press, September 2023

Like the coastal zone where high tides deposit debris, Wrack Line traces loss, guilt, and subsequent loneliness while exploring the regenerative possibilities of language, memory, and land.

Paperback, $16.95 

Jacket cover for Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy edited by David Bromwich 
Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy edited by David Bromwich 

Yale University Press, September 2023

A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, Thomas Hardy, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry.

Hardcover, $45

Jacket cover for How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems by Serhiy Zhadan translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps
How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems by Serhiy Zhadan translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps

Yale University Press, October 2023

Forged entirely in wartime, the newest collection of poetry from writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan is an homage to the Ukrainian people and a searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice.

Paperback, $18

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