8 best-selling feminism books like Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith

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Goldenrod: Poems

By: Maggie Smith

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry…

"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

If you liked the feminism plot in Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Sharks in the Rivers

By: Ada Limon

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's Sharks in the Rivers book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • nature

2. Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems

By: Billy Collins

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

The first volume of New and Selected poetry in twelve years from the two-time Poet Laureate of the … read more

Similar categories in Billy Collins's Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

3. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's Bright Dead Things book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

4. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Calling a Wolf a Wolf book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

5. Thrall

By: Natasha Trethewey

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by America's new Poe… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Trethewey's Thrall book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

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6. What Kind of Woman: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.07

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more

Similar categories in Kate Baer's What Kind of Woman: Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

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7. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Time Is a Mother book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • adult
  • contemporary
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8. An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

4.28

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

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9. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • adult
  • contemporary
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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10. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Kate Baer returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers… read more

Similar categories in Kate Baer's I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wanted art / poetry was hidden in so much in so many ways"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

"women want to live without fear For thousands of years We were not believed this is what we carry"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

"You were designed to find satisfaction in your excellence Your nature cannot be retrofitted to the male without permanent damage to the original design"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

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11. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Pilgrim Bell: Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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12. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • adult
  • contemporary
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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13. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • environment
  • audiobook
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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14. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

Similar categories in Saeed Jones's Alive At The End Of The World book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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15. Musical Tables: Poems

By: Billy Collins

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more

Similar categories in Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Carrying book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • adult
  • nature
  • audiobook
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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17. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

Similar categories in Clint Smith's Above Ground book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. And Yet: Poems

By: Kate Baer

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more

Similar categories in Kate Baer's And Yet: Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Let your life rest on what is already good."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

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19. Goldenrod: Poems

By: Maggie Smith

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • adult
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

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20. American Melancholy: Poems

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce C… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's American Melancholy: Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Stones: Poems

By: Kevin Young

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one o… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Young's Stones: Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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22. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.86

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that’s the thing. To ma…"

-Barbara Kingsolver, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

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23. Dearly

By: Margaret Atwood

3.74

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's Dearly book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

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24. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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25. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

By: Joy Harjo

4.34

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."

-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

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26. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • environment
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27. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

Similar categories in Sam Sax's Pig: Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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28. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

Similar categories in Joy Sullivan's Instructions for Traveling West: Poems book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Organs of Little Importance (Penguin Poets)

By: Adrienne Chung

4.18

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

“ Organs of Little Importance is a riotous feat...Ferocious. Funny. Deeply intelligent. Adrienne Ch… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Chung's Organs of Little Importance (Penguin Poets) book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Field Study

By: Chet'la Sebree

4.30

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets Layered, complex,… read more

Similar categories in Chet'la Sebree's Field Study book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"If it weren't for ruins, I wouldn't be writing."

-Chet'la Sebree, Field Study

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31. 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

Similar categories in Sherman Kennon's Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance book and Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems

  • contemporary
"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

14 must-read contemporary books like Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith

Transform Your Habits

Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

What Kind of Woman: Poems

Kate Baer

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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11 Best contemporary books like Field Study by Chet'la Sebree

Transform Your Habits

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Winter Recipes from the Collective

Louise Glück

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Goldenrod: Poems

Maggie Smith

3.94

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