9 Top anthologies books like The Best American Poetry 2021 (The Best American Poetry series) by Tracy K. Smith

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The Best American Poetry 2021 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: Tracy K. Smith

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the f…

If you liked the anthologies plot in The Best American Poetry 2021 (The Best American Poetry series) by Tracy K. Smith , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Best American Poetry 2017

By: David Lehman , Natasha Trethewey

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best America… read more

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  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • anthologies

2. The Best American Poetry 2000

By: David Lehman , Rita Dove

4.18

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A mid an "explosion in the interest of poetry nationwide" (The New York Times), The Best American P… read more

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3. The Best American Poetry 2001

By: David Lehman , Robert Hass

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The Best American Poetry" series returns with a volume that is sure to dazzle seasoned fans and ne… read more

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4. The World Doesn't End

By: Charles Simic

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be … read more

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5. 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

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  • 21st century
  • poetry
"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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6. 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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7. 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

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  • 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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8. The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: David Lehman

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry , “a ‘best’ antho… read more

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  • poetry
  • anthologies
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9. 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

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10. The Best American Poetry 2020 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: Paisley Rekdal

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award… read more

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  • anthologies
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11. 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

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"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

"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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12. 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

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  • poetry
"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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13. 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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14. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

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15. 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

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  • anthologies
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

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  • poetry
"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

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17. The Best American Short Stories 2021 (The Best American Series ®)

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner … read more

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  • anthologies
  • read for school
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18. The Best American Poetry 2021 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: Tracy K. Smith

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the f… read more

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  • 21st century
Cover of The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series) by David Lehman

19. 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

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20. The Best American Poetry 2018

By: Dana Gioia

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry —“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title… read more

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  • anthologies
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21. The Best American Poetry 2019

By: Major Jackson

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry —“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world… read more

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17 must-read poetry books like The Best American Poetry 2021 (The Best American Poetry series) by Tracy K. Smith

Transform Your Habits

Best American Poetry 2017

David Lehman , Natasha Trethewey

3.99

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Obit

Victoria Chang

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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20 must-read poetry books like The Best American Poetry 2020 (The Best American Poetry series) by Paisley Rekdal

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry

Rita Dove

4.16

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Dancing in Odessa

Ilya Kaminsky

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Art of the Poetic Line

James Longenbach

5.00

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