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Time Is a Mother (Hardcover) By Ocean Vuong $24.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (Paperback) By Sylvia Plath $18.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Love is a Dog From Hell (Paperback) By Charles Bukowski $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
LVOE.: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms (Paperback) By Atticus $18.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback) By Dante Alighieri, Robin Kirkpatrick (Translated by), Robin Kirkpatrick (Introduction by), Robin Kirkpatrick (Notes by), Eric Drooker (Illustrator) $28.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Essential Emily Dickinson (Paperback) By Emily Dickinson $12.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
the princess saves herself in this one (Women Are Some Kind of Magic) (Paperback) By Amanda Lovelace, ladybookmad $14.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Time Will Tell (Paperback) By Courtney Peppernell $16.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	A Fortune for Your Disaster (Paperback) By Hanif Abdurraqib $16.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Thirst: Poems (Paperback) By Mary Oliver $16.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	You Get So Alone at Times (Paperback) By Charles Bukowski $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Last Night of the Earth Poems (Paperback) By Charles Bukowski $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now

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November: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez

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