9 must-read queer books like Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov

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Love and Other Poems

By: Alex Dimitrov

4.10

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin…

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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

Similar categories in Louise Glück's The Wild Iris book and Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
  • fiction
"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. Dancing in Odessa

By: Ilya Kaminsky

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky … read more

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  • poetry
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3. What the Living Do: Poems

By: Marie Howe

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more

Similar categories in Marie Howe's What the Living Do: Poems book and Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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4. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

Similar categories in Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems book and Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt

5. 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

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6. War of the Foxes

By: Richard Siken

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more

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7. 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

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8. Red Bird

By: Mary Oliver

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's… read more

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9. 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 Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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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 Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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 Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
"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

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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 Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
"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. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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15. 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 Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
"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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16. Love and Other Poems

By: Alex Dimitrov

4.10

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin… read more

Similar categories in Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems book and Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
  • love
  • unfinished
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer
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17. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Bates's Judas Goat: Poems book and Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
  • fiction
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18. 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 Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
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19. A Hundred Lovers: Poems

By: Richie Hofmann

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly a… read more

Similar categories in Richie Hofmann's A Hundred Lovers: Poems book and Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • queer
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20. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

Similar categories in Chen Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency book and Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

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21. The Undressing: Poems

By: Li-Young Lee

3.76

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated poet Li-Young Lee returns with a breathtaking new volume about the violence of desire an… read more

Similar categories in Li-Young Lee's The Undressing: Poems book and Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems

  • poetry
"I saw your eyes before I had eyes to see. And I've lived longing for your every look ever since. The longing entered time as this body. And the longing grew as this body wanes. That longing will outl…"

-Li-Young Lee, The Undressing: Poems

"We see by the light of who we are. Look at us: You inside me inside you. We've lived inside each other from the beginning. Before the world was ever found. Before the world was found, I say, I dwelle…"

-Li-Young Lee, The Undressing: Poems

"And of all the things on my mind this evening, words weigh the least, Death weighs the most, and your voice's body beneath my voice's moving hand is a green agent of freedom and order, best friend to…"

-Li-Young Lee, The Undressing: Poems

7 must-read fiction books like Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov

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The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

3.45

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

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6 best-selling fiction books like Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

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Judas Goat: Poems

Gabrielle Bates

4.21

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Soft Science

Franny Choi

3.93

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