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Explore 24 books like Hand Me the Limits by Ted Rees — a handpicked selection united by Death, Grief, Loss, LGBTQ, Subjects & Themes, and American.

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Lay Back the Darkness Poems — Edward Hirsch

Lay Back the Darkness Poems

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Subjects & Themes • American

Mama Phife Represents — Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Mama Phife Represents

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Subjects & Themes • American

Radicle, Or When the World Lived Inside Us Poems — Stephanie Catudal

Radicle, Or When the World Lived Inside Us Poems

Stephanie Catudal

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Subjects & Themes • American

What We Lost in the Swamp Poems — Grant Chemidlin

What We Lost in the Swamp Poems

Grant Chemidlin

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Good Stock Strange Blood — Dawn Lundy Martin

Good Stock Strange Blood

Dawn Lundy Martin

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Another Land of My Body — Rodney Terich Leonard

Another Land of My Body

Rodney Terich Leonard

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Good Grief — Brianna Pastor

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

You Better Be Lightning — Andrea Gibson

You Better Be Lightning

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Blood Orange — Yaffa As

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on — Franny Choi

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Coffee Days Whiskey Nights — Parker Lee

Coffee Days Whiskey Nights

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Love Is a Dangerous Word The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill — Essex Hemphill

Love Is a Dangerous Word The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Please Love Me at My Worst — Michaela Angemeer

Please Love Me at My Worst

Michaela Angemeer

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Imagine Us, the Swarm — Muriel Leung

Imagine Us, the Swarm

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat — Khalisa Rae

Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Water Lessons Poems — Lisa Dordal

Water Lessons Poems

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Alive at the End of the World Poems — Saeed Jones

Alive at the End of the World Poems

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Love and Other Poems — Alex Dimitrov

Love and Other Poems

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

The Tradition: Civic Dialogue Edition — Jericho Brown

The Tradition: Civic Dialogue Edition

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

All this Time — Cedar Sigo

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Wonder & Wreckage New & Selected Poems, 1993-2023 — COLLIN. KELLEY

Wonder & Wreckage New & Selected Poems, 1993-2023

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Time Is a Mother — Ocean Vuong

Time Is a Mother

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Lord of the Butterflies — Andrea Gibson

Lord of the Butterflies

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

Selected Poems of James Merrill — James Merrill

Selected Poems of James Merrill

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • LGBTQ • Subjects & Themes

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