24 best-selling poetry books like The Court of No Record: Poems by Jenny Molberg

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The Court of No Record: Poems

By: Jenny Molberg

4.65

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Jenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record , serves as both evidence and te…

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1. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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2. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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3. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

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4. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more

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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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5. 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

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"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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6. 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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"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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7. 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

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8. 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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"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

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9. 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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10. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

By: C. Alexander Hortis

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was P… read more

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11. 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

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"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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12. 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

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Cover of Judas Goat: Poems by Gabrielle Bates

13. 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

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Cover of Have You Been Long Enough At Table by Leslie Sainz

14. Have You Been Long Enough At Table

By: Leslie Sainz

4.27

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Marvelous.”―Terrance Hayes Taking its title from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea , Leslie Sain… read more

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15. Soft Science

By: Franny Choi

3.93

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more

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"having been hurt before"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"fiended; fell for another"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"it's too late to stop smiling."

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

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16. Magical Negro

By: Morgan Parker

4.31

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnog… read more

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Cover of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

17. 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

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"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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18. Constellation Route

By: Matthew Olzmann

4.31

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American … read more

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Cover of The Court of No Record: Poems by Jenny Molberg

19. The Court of No Record: Poems

By: Jenny Molberg

4.65

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Jenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record , serves as both evidence and te… read more

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Cover of Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems by José Hernández Díaz

20. Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems

By: José Hernández Díaz

4.60

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a risi… read more

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Cover of Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco by K. Iver

21. Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco

By: K. Iver

4.59

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr P… read more

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Cover of With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang

22. 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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Cover of Master (The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry) by Simon Shieh

23. Master (The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry)

By: Simon Shieh

4.41

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes. The debut coll… read more

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Cover of Fruit (Volume 1) (Wisconsin Poetry Series) by Bruce Snider

24. Fruit (Volume 1) (Wisconsin Poetry Series)

By: Bruce Snider

4.62

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Bruce Snider’s third poetry collection grapples with what it means to be childless in a world obses… read more

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Cover of Pleasure Principle: Poems by Madeleine Cravens

25. 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

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Cover of All Souls: Poems by Saskia Hamilton

26. All Souls: Poems

By: Saskia Hamilton

3.68

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

In All Souls , Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the… read more

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Cover of Blessing the Exoskeleton: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by Andrew Hemmert

27. Blessing the Exoskeleton: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

By: Andrew Hemmert

4.73

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Blessing the Exoskeleton is a southerner’s book about Michigan. Written over a two-year period in K… read more

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Cover of Two Open Doors in a Field (The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention) by Sophie Klahr

28. Two Open Doors in a Field (The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention)

By: Sophie Klahr

4.00

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

The poems of Two Open Doors in a Field are constructed through deliberate limitations, restlessly e… read more

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Cover of If You Have to Go by Katie  Ford

29. If You Have to Go

By: Katie Ford

4.04

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

The poems in Katie Ford’s fourth collection implore their audience―the divine and the human―for att… read more

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Cover of The Punishments Must Be a School by Emily August

30. The Punishments Must Be a School

By: Emily August

5.00

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Poetry. This debut collection explores what it means to be biracial in America, and asks why our cu… read more

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31. Rough Music

By: Deborah Digges

4.15

Format: 54 pages, Hardcover

"Deborah Digges's rough new music is bold and fractious, unpredictable and passionate. spilling ove… read more

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22 best-selling poetry books like Fruit (Volume 1) (Wisconsin Poetry Series) by Bruce Snider

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

Revising the Storm

Dorianne Laux , Geffrey Davis

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Touch: Poems

Henri Cole

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Faithful and Virtuous Night

Louise Glück

4.11

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