Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme…
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1. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- essays
- audiobook
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
2. 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
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- 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
3. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
4. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- poetry
- unfinished
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
5. 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
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- 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
6. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
7. 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
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
8. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more
Want to Read $ 9.17Similar categories in Pádraig Ó Tuama's Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World book and Pádraig Ó Tuama's Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
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- unfinished
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- essays
- contemporary
- adult
- ireland
- audiobook
9. Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.52
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Soph… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- essays
- audiobook
10. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
By: Sarah Bessey
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- audiobook
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
11. 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
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- 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
12. 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
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- poetry
- 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
13. 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
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
- anthologies
14. Practice
By: Rosalind Brown
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
15. Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
By: Christian Wiman
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- essays
16. 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
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
By: James Crews
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An Indie Poetry Bestseller! Featured in People Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and… read more
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- poetry
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- contemporary
- adult
18. With My Back to the World: Poems
By: Victoria Chang
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more
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- contemporary
19. To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might—… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
20. The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy
By: James Crews
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
An Indie Poetry Bestseller and Nautilus Award Winner! Crews, a fine poet and teacher, appears to h… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- anthologies
21. The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal
By: James Crews
4.38
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness pr… read more
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- nonfiction
- anthologies
