9 must-read poetry books like The Flame by Leonard Cohen

Cover of The Flame by Leonard Cohen

The Flame

By: Leonard Cohen

4.05

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span gene…

"And that was my mistake I didn't kill the snake I gave the snake a break Unbiblical"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"And that was my mistake I didn't kill the snake I gave the snake a break Unbiblical"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"Straighten up, little warrior [...] It's not as though you wasted your life by loving me."

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"Straighten up, little warrior [...] It's not as though you wasted your life by loving me."

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

If you liked the poetry plot in The Flame by Leonard Cohen , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Roland Glasser

1. Tram 83

By: Fiston Mwanza Mujila , Roland Glasser

3.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

In an African city in secession, which could be Kinshasa or Lubumbashi, land tourists of all langua… read more

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  • literature
"Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids."

-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83

"He hiccupped and continued: "I write therefore I come...But unfortunately, my orgies are never eternal!..."

-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83

"Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars."

-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83

"Yet torture is above all an art, an artistic discipline just like literature , cinema, or contemporary dance. All detained in the City-State ghettos bitterly missed the torturers of yesteryears, thos…"

-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83

Cover of Howl and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg

2. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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3. Actual Air

By: David Berman

4.38

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

David Berman reinvents the overlooked and seemingly ordinary details of everyday life--from the sui… read more

Similar categories in David Berman's Actual Air book and Leonard Cohen's The Flame

  • music
  • poetry
"He stood and watched the night push itself into the bar and the light push it back out."

-David Berman, Actual Air

"As a way of getting in touch with my origins every night I set the alarm clock for the time I was born so that waking up becomes a historical reenactment..."

-David Berman, Actual Air

Cover of Ariel by Sylvia Plath

4. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Plath's Ariel book and Leonard Cohen's The Flame

  • literature
  • poetry
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

Cover of Collected Poems by Dylan Thomas

5. Collected Poems

By: Dylan Thomas

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomascontains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented h… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
Cover of Selected Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound

6. Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

By: Ezra Pound

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very larg… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry

7. The Selected Poems

By: Federico García Lorca , Donald M. Allen , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorcahas introduced generations of American readers to mesmer… read more

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8. You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry tha… read more

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9. Love Is a Dog from Hell

By: Charles Bukowski

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places,… read more

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10. Dog Songs

By: None , Mary Oliver

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more

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11. Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

By: John Cooper Clarke , None

2.00

Format: None pages,

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12. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

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13. I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

By: Sylvie Simmons

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Leonard Cohen, one of the most important and influential artists of our era, is a man of powerful e… read more

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14. The Last Night of the Earth Poems

By: Charles Bukowski

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past. read more

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15. Good Poems

By: Garrison Keillor

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanacon public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them… read more

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16. What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems

By: Kim Addonizio

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post. read more

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Cover of The Flame by Leonard Cohen

17. The Flame

By: Leonard Cohen

4.05

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span gene… read more

Similar categories in Leonard Cohen's The Flame book and Leonard Cohen's The Flame

  • music
  • poetry
  • art
  • biography
  • canada
  • literature
  • anthologies
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"And that was my mistake I didn't kill the snake I gave the snake a break Unbiblical"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"Straighten up, little warrior [...] It's not as though you wasted your life by loving me."

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"the flags from the nation but your absence comes from a terrible sleep under a huge museum Enter the moth holes of my longing"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I’m old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering com…"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

Cover of The Surrender Theory by Caitlin Conlon

18. The Surrender Theory

By: Caitlin Conlon

4.01

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

The Surrender Theory begins in the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and … read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Conlon's The Surrender Theory book and Leonard Cohen's The Flame

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"In retrospect I can see that you gave me very little and I tried to build an entire future with it. You must understand, I had never been remembered like that, before. With purpose. Without begging f…"

-Caitlin Conlon, The Surrender Theory

Cover of Nick Cave - The Complete Lyrics 1978-2013 by Nick Cave

19. Nick Cave - The Complete Lyrics 1978-2013

By: Nick Cave

4.55

Format: None pages, Paperback

Caution! No English version! Polish release. read more

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  • music
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Sylvia Plath: Selected Poems by Rebecca Warren

20. Sylvia Plath: Selected Poems

By: Rebecca Warren

4.06

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A fresh and accessible approach to Literature read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance by Sherman Kennon

21. Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

By: Sherman Kennon

4.35

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Whisk Of Dust is a book of poetry. It aims to uplift and inspire, as it speaks of love, peace, and … read more

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"Each moment embrace or more so cherish. As gentle the wind blows,"

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Just as dust of a gentle breeze, quiet ascends of fallen leaves, upward to the skies. Still, we rise."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Still I chase the wind and float as a gentle breeze up among the stars then descending as a bird down amidst the trees."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Things are sometimes faded but they will always become clear, where there seems nothing but bad look closer, you’re sure to find good."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

6 Best literature books like The Flame by Leonard Cohen

Transform Your Habits

Tram 83

Fiston Mwanza Mujila , Roland Glasser

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Howl and Other Poems

William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Collected Poems

Dylan Thomas

3.80

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10 best-selling school books like Sylvia Plath: Selected Poems by Rebecca Warren

Transform Your Habits

Selected Poems

Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Whitsun Weddings

Philip Larkin

3.92

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

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