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Autobiographical poetry

  • The Small Nouns Crying Faith
    Author:
    Hall, Phil
    Summary:

    The first word in this new collection by Phil Hall is "raw" and the last word is "blurtip." Between these, many nouns cry faith within a hook-less framework that sings in chorus while undermining such standard forms & tropes as "the...
  • Pistachios in my pocket
    Author:
    Farmand, Sareh
    Summary:

    Poet Sareh Farmand was born in Tehran at the start of the Islamic Revolution. In this brave first collection of poems and prose a narrative arc details her family's escape from Iran, detailing their time as immigrants in limbo, and...
  • Black girl you are Atlas
    Author:
    Watson, Renée
    Summary:

    A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the...
  • Agony
    Author:
    Zultanski, Steven
    Summary:

    Agony is the first in a trilogy of long confessional poems. It uses semi-rigorous mathematical and logical constraints to view the author's life and body, telescopically, as little bits of time and space. Everything written here is as...
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