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I Am Trying to Love the Whole World

Jenny Browne

In her lyrical fifth collection, I Am Trying to Love the Whole World, Jenny Browne fearlessly holds grief without sentimentality and beauty without denial. For nearly a year, Browne began each poem…

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Pagan Sky: New and Selected Poems 2000–2025

In these richly textured poems—crafted with taut clarity and consummate skill—Waters confronts the immutable presence of death by reveling in sensual pleasure and spiritual daring. Each poem unfolds as a compelling…

Poetry

Pagan Sky: New and Selected Poems 2000–2025

Michael Waters

$19.00
Splashed Things

“In my new life, I must learn everything again,” begins Splashed Things, Leigh Lucas’s dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide…

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Splashed Things

Leigh Lucas

$19.00
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers

The daring and deeply sexy poems in Lonely Women Make Good Lovers are bold with the embodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual. These unforgettable love poems—queer, complicated, and almost always compromised—engage a…

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Lonely Women Make Good Lovers

Keetje Kuipers

$19.00
Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible

Inspired by the speaker’s experiences of living with type 1 diabetes, Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible chronicles humanity’s daily fight for survival in a world that’s bent on…

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Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible

Rebecca Lindenberg

$19.00
Bridge

Winner of the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction Set in modern-day San Francisco, this obsessive work of fiction probes the stormy life of Alice, a passionate and…

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Bridge

Robert Thomas

$14.00
Where Can I Take You When There's Nowhere To Go

In Joe Baumann’s newest collection Where Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere To Go, queer men explore their sense of who they are and what they want, often in…

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Where Can I Take You When There's Nowhere To Go

Joe Baumann

$17.00
Four in Hand

Audiobook now Available!  BOA Editions · Sample of Four In Hand by Alicia Mountain Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental,…

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Four in Hand

Alicia Mountain

$17.00
Useful Junk

Audiobook now available! BOA Editions · "I would like to be the you in someone's poem" by Erika Meitner A master of documentary poetry, Erika Meitner takes up the question…

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Useful Junk

Erika Meitner

$17.00
Tenderness Out of Stock

Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award In a country where violence and the threat of violence is a constant weather for queer Black people, where can the spirit rest?…

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Tenderness

Derrick Austin

$17.00

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George Looney
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George Looney

George Looney is the author of three previous award-winning fiction collections—a novella, Hymn of Ash, a novel, Report from a Place of Burning, and…

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Boa Classic Book Bundle
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Boa Classic Book Bundle

With this one-time purchase you will receive a box of 5 best-selling titles from Boa with a few goodies from the publisher (broadsides, bookmarks,…

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Boa Book Lovers Subscription

Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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The Innocent Party
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The Innocent Party

Winner of the Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize, Aimee Parkison’s characters struggle to understand what happens when the innocent party becomes the guilty party. With…

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Romance
This Elegance
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This Elegance

Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione (“sacred conversation”), a style of Renaissance…

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LGBTQ+ Black/African Faith/Spirituality
Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in Their Own Words
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Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in Their Own Words

Signed copies available in limited supply “Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain what a poem says is…

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Literary Criticism
Bright Hunger
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Bright Hunger

Mark Irwin's poetics are a direct descendant of Rilke and Hart Crane. His poetry is propelled by charged rhythms and a lush music. "An…

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Animals & Nature Aging
Splendor
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Splendor

Signed copies available in limited supply Steve Kronen's poems explore the hardships that daily challenge the human heart. From such hardships, compassion and empathy…

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Aging
Beings and Things on Their Own
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Beings and Things on Their Own

The recipient of the 1985 Greek National Poetry Award for the Greek version of Beings and Things on Their Own, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke is the author…

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