11 Best poetry books like On Sun Swallowing by Dakota Warren

Cover of On Sun Swallowing by Dakota Warren

On Sun Swallowing

By: Dakota Warren

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

“On Sun Swallowing is a sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinne…

"IT'S PURGATORY BUT ITS LIVEABLE"

-Dakota Warren, On Sun Swallowing

"IT'S PURGATORY BUT ITS LIVEABLE"

-Dakota Warren, On Sun Swallowing

If you liked the poetry plot in On Sun Swallowing by Dakota Warren , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4) by Anaïs Nin

1. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.71

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more

Similar categories in Anaïs Nin's A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4) book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • feminism
  • fiction
"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

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2. 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 Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • womens
  • adult
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

Cover of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Reginald Snell

3. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

Similar categories in Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • poetry
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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4. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

Similar categories in Richard Siken's Crush book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

By: Oscar Wilde

4.30

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Oscar Wilde's Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • poetry
  • short stories

6. 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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7. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

Similar categories in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • fiction
  • horror
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

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8. Bonjour tristesse

By: Françoise Sagan

3.72

Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback

(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more

Similar categories in Françoise Sagan's Bonjour tristesse book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

9. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

By: Eimear McBride

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young w… read more

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10. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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11. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

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12. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

By: Lana Del Rey

3.98

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more

Similar categories in Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • poetry
  • adult
  • contemporary
"Live your life like no one’s listening"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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13. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

Similar categories in Dizz Tate's Brutes book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"to be loved, was just to be watched"

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

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14. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Girls Against God book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • feminism
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

Cover of On Sun Swallowing by Dakota Warren

15. On Sun Swallowing

By: Dakota Warren

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

“On Sun Swallowing is a sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinne… read more

Similar categories in Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • dark
  • womens
  • horror
  • adult
"IT'S PURGATORY BUT ITS LIVEABLE"

-Dakota Warren, On Sun Swallowing

Cover of Poems 1962-2020 by Louise Glück

16. Poems 1962-2020

By: Louise Glück

4.46

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fif… read more

Similar categories in Louise Glück's Poems 1962-2020 book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • poetry
Cover of Film for Her by Orion Carloto

17. Film for Her

By: Orion Carloto

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

With both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • contemporary
"I close my eyes just enough to let go of the suffering and allow myself this moment to feel everything."

-Orion Carloto, Film for Her

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18. Closer Baby Closer

By: Savannah Brown

4.18

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy … read more

Similar categories in Savannah Brown's Closer Baby Closer book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • poetry
Cover of I Fear My Pain Interests You by Stephanie LaCava

19. I Fear My Pain Interests You

By: Stephanie LaCava

2.89

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A stylish and raw exploration of bodies, trauma and 1960s cinema Margot is the child of renowned… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie LaCava's I Fear My Pain Interests You book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry by Florence Welch

20. Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

By: Florence Welch

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine. … read more

Similar categories in Florence Welch's Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • adult
  • contemporary
"We are all too young to die."

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

"I am teaching myself how to be free"

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

"Maybe I’ve always been more comfortable in chaos."

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

"I like people who've seen some darkness. The haunted ones."

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

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21. Sweetdark

By: Savannah Brown

4.16

Format: None pages, None

Savannah Brown’s long-awaited second collection of poetry is at once philosophical and accessible, … read more

Similar categories in Savannah Brown's Sweetdark book and Dakota Warren's On Sun Swallowing

  • poetry
  • adult
  • contemporary

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A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

Anaïs Nin

3.71

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Ariel

Sylvia Plath

4.19

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Crush

Richard Siken

3.67

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J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

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Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

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Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

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Julia Armfield

3.78

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