26 Best poetry books like Sight Lines by Arthur Sze

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Sight Lines

By: Arthur Sze

3.85

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning tenth collection Sight Lines, Arthur Sze lends the reader his pr…

"the world of being is like this gravel: you think you own a car, a house, this blue-zigzagged shirt, but you just borrow these things. Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams and stood at Gibraltar, but you possess nothing."

-Arthur Sze, Sight Lines

If you liked the poetry plot in Sight Lines by Arthur Sze , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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

By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

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3. We the Animals

By: Justin Torres

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more

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"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

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4. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead: Poems book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction

5. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

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6. Felon: Poems

By: Reginald Dwayne Betts

4.34

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

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7. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

Similar categories in Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • adult
"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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8. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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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 Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • adult
"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. 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 Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • 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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11. Obit

By: Victoria Chang

4.27

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Chang's Obit book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

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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 Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • adult
"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 Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"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. Inheritance

By: Taylor Johnson

4.45

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Inheritance is a black sensorium, a chapel of color and sound that speaks to spaciousness, surveill… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Johnson's Inheritance book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
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15. 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 Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"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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16. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

Similar categories in Louise Glück's Winter Recipes from the Collective book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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17. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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  • poetry
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18. Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love

By: Haruki Murakami

3.56

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's exten… read more

Similar categories in Haruki Murakami's Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • asian literature
  • nonfiction
"Now that I’ve lived this long, and find myself with enough T-shirts to write a whole book about them, frankly it seems kind of scary."

-Haruki Murakami, Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love

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19. Sight Lines

By: Arthur Sze

3.85

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning tenth collection Sight Lines, Arthur Sze lends the reader his pr… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Sze's Sight Lines book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"the world of being is like this gravel: you think you own a car, a house, this blue-zigzagged shirt, but you just borrow these things. Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams and stood at Gi…"

-Arthur Sze, Sight Lines

Cover of Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves

20. Best Barbarian: Poems

By: Roger Reeves

4.10

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more

Similar categories in Roger Reeves's Best Barbarian: Poems book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limon

21. 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 Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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22. Punks: New & Selected Poems

By: John Keene

4.26

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John … read more

Similar categories in John Keene's Punks: New & Selected Poems book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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23. Rupture Tense

By: Jenny Xie

3.91

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorke… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Xie's Rupture Tense book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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24. DMZ Colony

By: Don Mee Choi

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of… read more

Similar categories in Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving. So it's most likely that the decision, seemingly all mine, was already made years …"

-Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony

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25. Ghost Of

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

4.36

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more

Similar categories in Diana Khoi Nguyen's Ghost Of book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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26. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice by Eddie Ahn

27. Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice

By: Eddie Ahn

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving … read more

Similar categories in Eddie Ahn's Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps by Jon  Favreau

28. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

By: Jon Favreau

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From your friends at Pod Save America  and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more

Similar categories in Jon Favreau's Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • nonfiction
Cover of From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Pérez

29. From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]

By: Craig Santos Pérez

4.42

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Experimental and visual poems diving into the history and culture of the poet’s homeland, Guam.   … read more

Similar categories in Craig Santos Pérez's From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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30. Reader, I

By: Corey Van Landingham

4.57

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

A brand new collection from multi-award winning poet Corey Van Landingham.  Reader, I draws its tit… read more

Similar categories in Corey Van Landingham's Reader, I book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry
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31. Augury: Poems

By: Eric Pankey

4.04

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

From celebrated poet Eric Pankey, a collection exploring the presence of the divine in the seemingl… read more

Similar categories in Eric Pankey's Augury: Poems book and Arthur Sze's Sight Lines

  • poetry

15 Top adult books like Sight Lines by Arthur Sze

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

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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8 Top poetry books like Augury: Poems by Eric Pankey

Transform Your Habits

The Collected Poems

Wallace Stevens

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Digest (Stahlecker Selections)

Gregory Pardlo

4.00

Transform Your Habits

I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

Kate Baer

4.28

Transform Your Habits

And Yet: Poems

Kate Baer

3.97

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