18 best-selling poetry books like Bread and Circus by Airea Dee Matthews

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Bread and Circus

By: Airea Dee Matthews

4.27

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

“Discerning and significant.” — Poetry Foundation “A sharp memoir in verse.” — LitHub This powe…

If you liked the poetry plot in Bread and Circus by Airea Dee Matthews , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. So Many Olympic Exertions

By: Anelise Chen

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Blending elements of memoir and sports writing, Anelise Chen's debut novel is an experimental work … read more

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2. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.10

Format: 264 pages,

In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Rankine's Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. 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 Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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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4. Bluest Nude: Poems

By: Ama Codjoe

4.48

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated de… read more

Similar categories in Ama Codjoe's Bluest Nude: Poems book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
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5. Quiet

By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley

4.12

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Adukwei Bulley's Quiet book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
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6. 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

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry: Poems book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
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7. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Millner's Couplets book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • audiobook
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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8. Trace Evidence: Poems

By: Charif Shanahan

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more

Similar categories in Charif Shanahan's Trace Evidence: Poems book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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9. Bread and Circus

By: Airea Dee Matthews

4.27

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

“Discerning and significant.” — Poetry Foundation “A sharp memoir in verse.” — LitHub This powe… read more

Similar categories in Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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10. The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

By: Sally Wen Mao

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, “a consistently inspiring and exciting voice”… read more

Similar categories in Sally Wen Mao's The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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11. Honey

By: Victor Lodato

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean… read more

Similar categories in Victor Lodato's Honey book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • audiobook
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12. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

By: Briony Cameron

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one o… read more

Similar categories in Briony Cameron's The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

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13. 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 Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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14. Fixer: Poems

By: Edgar Kunz

4.20

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edg… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Kunz's Fixer: Poems book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
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15. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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16. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

By: Taylor Byas

4.37

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Byas's I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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17. 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

Similar categories in Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • womens
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18. Finna

By: Nate Marshall

4.49

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more

Similar categories in Nate Marshall's Finna book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. Pleasure Principle: Poems

By: Madeleine Cravens

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth. In her stunning debu… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Cravens's Pleasure Principle: Poems book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
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20. Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin Poets)

By: Adrian Matejka

3.78

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke , a finalist for… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Matejka's Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin Poets) book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
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21. Night Rooms

By: Gina Nutt

3.81

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

“In a horror movie, an infected character may hide a bite or rash, an urge, an unwellness. She migh… read more

Similar categories in Gina Nutt's Night Rooms book and Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

7 must-read audiobook books like Bread and Circus by Airea Dee Matthews

Transform Your Habits

Couplets

Maggie Millner

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Trace Evidence: Poems

Charif Shanahan

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Bread and Circus

Airea Dee Matthews

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Honey

Victor Lodato

4.02

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11 must-read adult books like Finna by Nate Marshall

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Black Girl, Call Home

Jasmine Mans

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

If They Come for Us

Fatimah Asghar

4.24

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