16 Top nonfiction books like Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Joy Harjo

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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…

"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

"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

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Joy Harjo , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. 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

Similar categories in Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars book and Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

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2. 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 Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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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3. 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 Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • race
  • 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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4. 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 Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • 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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5. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

Similar categories in Safia Elhillo's Girls That Never Die: Poems book and Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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6. Woman Without Shame: Poems

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems book and Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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7. 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 Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"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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8. 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 Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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9. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)

By: Rio Cortez

4.02

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more

Similar categories in Rio Cortez's Golden Ax (Penguin Poets) book and Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. Balladz

By: Sharon Olds

3.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Olds's Balladz book and Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
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11. 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 Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"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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12. 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 Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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13. 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 Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"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

Cover of Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Pádraig Ó Tuama

14. 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

Similar categories in Pádraig Ó Tuama's Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World book and Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

15. 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 Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • race
  • feminism
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"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

Cover of Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Joy Harjo

16. 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 Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • native americans
"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

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

17. 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 Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of So to Speak (Penguin Poets) by Terrance Hayes

18. So to Speak (Penguin Poets)

By: Terrance Hayes

4.17

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–w… read more

Similar categories in Terrance Hayes's So to Speak (Penguin Poets) book and Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • race
Cover of Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove

19. Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems

By: Rita Dove

4.08

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral comp… read more

Similar categories in Rita Dove's Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems book and Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
Cover of The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series) by David Lehman

20. The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: David Lehman

3.49

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry ,… read more

Similar categories in David Lehman's The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series) book and Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
Cover of The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets) by Su Cho

21. The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets)

By: Su Cho

3.83

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about i… read more

Similar categories in Su Cho's The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets) book and Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  • poetry
  • nonfiction

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