{"title":"New Poetry Books","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePoetry is constantly evolving. The Poetry Shop features new books once a week, usually on Tuesdays. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the.poetryshop\/\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eFollow us on Instagram\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e for the latest and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/pages\/sign-up-for-our-emails\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003esign up for our emails\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e to get updates in your inbox. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"if-you-love-that-lady-poems","title":"If You Love That Lady: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eIf You Love That Lady\u003c\/em\u003e is a hymn to the pursuit of the unattainable. The title sequence dramatizes the paradox of correspondence: The private worlds shaped by the act of writing, and the expectant silences that charge our lives. Drawing from nineteenth-century courtship letters, the collection lingers in the rush of love and the resurrection that follows: \"Happiness was no small thing, \/ but neither was its cost.\" Delivered with piercing elegance and signature wit--\"What a formidable excuse he was. \/ What a pair of borrowed eyes \/ with a side of Keats\"--these poems teach us that desire, like poetry, depends on revelation and restraint alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart elegy to the passing of impossible things, part \u003cem\u003ears poetica\u003c\/em\u003e to the possibility of remaking, \u003cem\u003eIf You Love That Lady\u003c\/em\u003e explores the inventiveness of longing and its relentless drive, proving that what breaks us open at last reveals us to ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maya C Popa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43871228788778,"sku":"9781324124566","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/if-you-love-that-lady-poems-6644972.jpg?v=1764750253"},{"product_id":"good-luck-in-the-real-world","title":"Good Luck in the Real World","description":"\u003cp\u003eGood Luck in the Real World is a journey through mental health recovery. 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From Vietnam to Virginia, California to Thailand, Hong plumbs the fault lines, crosses the oceans, crystallizing moments into meaning. Whether luxuriating in the small joys of nature and of existence, or marveling at the process of geological shift, these artfully crafted poems bring the reader into the complex promises and griefs of migration, navigation, and claiming space in a postcolonial world. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mai-Linh Hong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44157386391594,"sku":"9781949487640","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/continental-drift-7596698.jpg?v=1773881895"},{"product_id":"dear-dear","title":"Dear Dear","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2025 Louise Bogan Award, Reuben Gelley Newman's\u003cem\u003e Dear Dear\u003c\/em\u003e renders queer love through the lens of music, art, nature, and politics. Drawing on artists from Bach to Mitski, Gelley Newman flirts with nostalgia but refuses to dwell in the past, asking how remembering our ancestors can reinvigorate our present struggles. 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As she tracks memory and experience on deep psychedelic therapy journeys, the unexpected arises: \"who-would've-been-Daisy\" finds voice and narrates the story from somewhere off in the cosmos, in conversation with Hyland, as each speaker works through what happened and touches into who they are-and aren't-as a result of Hyland's abortion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emily Hyland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44157386784810,"sku":"9781949487589","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/my-wise-little-ghost-1701881.jpg?v=1775150838"},{"product_id":"daughter-of-salt-leila-farjami","title":"Daughter of Salt","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe speaker in Iranian-American poet Leila Farjami's debut collection, Daughter of Salt fiercely engages with and questions her mother, her father, ancestors, and herself. 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This collection moves the reader into remembrance and healing; the preservation and renewal of the self that occurs when grace is given to others and ourselves, when we allow ourselves to keep close the memories we share with those we have lost, and use them to build a foundation for a better future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leila Farjami","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44157387046954,"sku":"9781949487695","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/daughter-of-salt-7110111.jpg?v=1773881895"},{"product_id":"en-el-norte-soy-del-sur","title":"En El Norte \/ Soy del Sur","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoetry that considers migration and identity through formal experimentation with sonnets.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e José Felipe Alvergue's \u003ci\u003een el norte\/soy del sur\u003c\/i\u003e, which translates to \"in the north I am of the south,\" is an exploration into the limits of the American sonnet, one that seeks to establish a stable sense of place, while opening vistas at each turn. Stitching together multiple sonnets into what he calls \"sonnet essays,\" Alvergue rides their turns--or \"voltas\"--that are guided by memories and photographs of his family's migratory history between El Salvador and the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The resulting text is a story of human geography that considers the coordinates of a long, continuous thought about what it means to be \"of a place\" as a defining characteristic of identity, when one is also \"in a place\" that sets strict limits on the political and historical potential of im\/migrants. A deeply human documentary work that delves into one family's migration across the hemisphere, \u003ci\u003een el norte\/soy del sur\u003c\/i\u003e hopes to give shape to the collective and often amorphous history of migration in the face of narratives that peddle spectacularized distillation and essentialism. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"José Felipe Alvergue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44210151358506,"sku":"9781632432124","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/en-el-norte-soy-del-sur-2777967.jpg?v=1774889952"},{"product_id":"revelator-poems-ellie-black","title":"Revelator","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllie Black's \u003ci\u003eRevelator\u003c\/i\u003e transforms shards of language, pop culture, and literature into tightly wound poems of excess and incantation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChosen by Dorothea Lasky as the winner of the 2026 APR\/Honickman First Book Prize, Ellie Black's debut collection, \u003ci\u003eRevelator\u003c\/i\u003e, glitches and falters, iterates and alludes. This is a book concerned deeply with what's real, what's fake, and what's fantasy. With equal parts humor and horror, this fragmented, oracular collection explores the consequences of the increasingly blurry digital-physical landscape in which we find ourselves and its relationship to power, control, and what we worship. These poems transform shards of language, pop culture, and literature into a tightly wound poetics of excess engaged with an incantatory attention to sound. Famous women, teenage girls, movie characters, and reluctant prophets are victims, villains, and victors, sometimes all at once. Here, boundaries blur between high and low. Angels visit and animatronics come to life. Sylvia Plath, Lee Edelman, and \u003ci\u003eEvil Dead II\u003c\/i\u003e share space in a single poem. Revelation, this collection proposes, exists at the limits of confessional poetry, religious confession, the dramatic twist, and the divine promise of an apocalyptic ending. Revelator offers up a mirror to how we invent and perform ourselves on stages, on screens, and in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePRAISE FOR REVELATOR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--custom\"\u003eEllie Black writes with the urgency of someone who knows the body and the internet are both battleground and altar. These poems crackle electric with nerve and intellect—a live wire between the sacred and the pixelated. Black's poems are unafraid to confront power, spectacle, and girlhood rendered mythic and monstrous. 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Black writes poems that revel in poetry's polysemous, polymorphous possibilities while also embodying a poetics that can function as a site of critique and dissent in relation to our fraught contemporary moment. 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