Cover of The Near and Distant World by Bianca Stone. A mountain range is at the center with a shadowy figure walking alongside the peak. Illustrated fire tops the mountain
“I hover in the indexes, the footnotes” (from the poem “Theory”). A collection that asks reader to sit in the metacognition of why we exist & the stories we tell. 206 release from @tinhouse.bsky.social #booksky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816553...
Author @toniannj.bsky.social writes from oral history traditions, from personal experience. She explores social mobility for Black families, power dynamics within relationships, the yearning to self-define.
www.kentuckypress.com/978196716503...
The cover of But Where’s Home by Toni Ann Johnson, which has a painting of a black woman’s head and hands.
Only a few days left to pre-order But Where’s Home: A Novella and Stories by Toni Ann Johnson. It’s deeply affecting with family trauma, agency and the complexity of healing. @kentuckypress.bsky.social #booksky #BlackHistoryMonth
The book The Fire Inside: the Dahrma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde held in front of a bus with tiny purple flowers. The book cover is free with photos of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin in front of a lotus flower.
There’s a little here for everyone: spiritual practice and meditation, literary analysis, reflection for healing, and re-tooled lessons in political engagement. New from North Atlantic Books. #booksky #newbooks
A copy of The World After the Rain by Canisia Lubrin. The cover is several shades of blue, with a rain pattern.
I was enchanted and grieving and wondering. I was lost and planted again. Grateful for this work and the challenge of it. Out from Soft Skull press. #poetry #booksky
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Cover of Self Driving by Betty Fagin. A white, oblong spiral is pictured, on top on a background of layered abstract colors.
Winding, sometimes stream of consciousness type poetry. Phrases bump along uneven roads, sputter like a weary engine. Fagin’s poems ask you to trust the process, and know that we are shortcutting our way to an important place. Then, a revelation so bright you have to squint appears. #booksky
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The book cover is pictured on the left side of the image, and a quote is on the right. The book cover is yellow with an image of the AI to or as a child smiling at the camera and wearing a large hat. The quote on the right says, “There is no name for those of us who choose to deport ourselves. The Huddled Masses, yearning to breathe free from the nightmare of the American Dream. American Escapees. Refugees from America”
Read memoirs in summer. #JillDamatac #DirtyKitchen @atriabooks.bsky.social
The book Hardly Creatures by Rob Colgate is picked in front of a bush of white and pink flowers. The cover has a broken statue of a face, with a red salamander crawling across it.
Absolutely in love in with new collection, out tomorrow from @tinhouse.bsky.social . Hardly Creatures is a collection that focuses on disability, community, and so much more. The book is modeled to read like a walk through an accessible museum.
a hand holds up a copy of What Had Happened Was by Theri Pickens against a plant with dark pink flowers. The cover is various shades of pink, with a brown, ink-blot like repeating pattern of women whispering to each other.
A stunning book of poetry steeped in Black culture references.
#Booksky #Blackbooksky
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The book Marisolandia is held in front of a cactus. The book cover has a barren landscape and blue sky, with a stone statue in the bottom right corner
Support small presses, especially ones that publish short fiction! Check out my friend’s novella, Marisolandia from @wtawpress.bsky.social !
On top of a wooden shelf is a series of babysitters club books.
A series of Animorphs books on a wooden shelf
‘90s kid bookish nostalgia in the local thrift. #booksky #90s #animorphs
a hand holds up a book in front of a large cactus. The book, We Contain Landscapes, has black title text and a blue, white and purple swirling design on the cover.
In the poem “On Belonging,” Patrycja Humienik asks, “where do we go to find the myths that made us?” A beautiful #poetry collection releasing this week from @tinhouse.bsky.social
Looking for cozy game recommendations for Nintendo switch. Loved Spritifarer and Wylde Flowers. Didn’t quite get into Cozy Grove. #cozygames
Got those books read!!
The book Saving Five by Amanda Nguyen is propped up against a large black telescope. The book cover has a portrait of the author, a Vietnamese woman with long black hair wearing a pink sweater. There is a shadow effect behind her and stars overlaid on her hair.
This memoir is full of grief, but also with hope. Using an innovate structure, Nguyen tells the dual stories of how her experience of sexual assault led her into activism and the healing of her childhood trauma. #SavingFive #AmandaNguyen #Booksky #memoir
The book Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis is pictured on a blue footstool. The book has a blue background and white title text with three spliced images of a pink feminine face. The bottom image of the face is blowing a bubble with gum.
Fundamentally is a book that surprised me. At first, I had a hard time sitting alongside the narrator, Nadia, whose brash and often offensive humor seemed like a defense mechanism that the reader didn’t have insight to. As I got more used to her & her naivety, layers of character were revealed.
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the book Waiting for A Long Night Moon. The cover is purple with stars in the background and two overlapping images of the moon, one orange and one purple at the center.
This book is holds you in its heartache and examines how folks move through/in/around grief. Grief of losing family members, of having few options, even the grief of surviving.
#booksky
Oh dang. That’s such a bummer!
Just finished it and loved it.
These are so cute and fit you perfectly!
A photo of the book We Were Made For These Times. The cover is black with white title text and has rainbow comets or asteroids across the cover.
Needing some easing of mind, some breathing? See Kaira Jewel Lingo’s We Were Made For These Times.
In the background, a black and white image shows a barren landscape. In the bottom right corner is a woman with curly hair looking up to the right. A faded thought bubble begins from her head into the sky above her. Inside the thought bubble is the cover of Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark, which has pink title text and an art piece by Kara Walker that features a desolate landscape, people on horseback and floating images of a head and hands
#ReadBlackPoetry forthcoming from Tiana Clark is a stunning collection, Scorched Earth! Clark lets us sit in the body as she faces pain while also being determined to celebrate aliveness. Out March 4th! #Booksky #BlackBooksky
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