6 Best nonfiction books like Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed

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Another Way to Split Water

By: Alycia Pirmohamed

4.37

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

LONGLISTED 2023 JHALAK PRIZE LONGLISTED 2023 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLISTED 2023 RAYMON…

"I stoop into my longings, plot a seed in every corner. Last week I titled another page within my body and surrendered every bending, spitting line of myself to the making."

-Alycia Pirmohamed, Another Way to Split Water

"I stoop into my longings, plot a seed in every corner. Last week I titled another page within my body and surrendered every bending, spitting line of myself to the making."

-Alycia Pirmohamed, Another Way to Split Water

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. 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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2. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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3. Blue Horses

By: Mary Oliver

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more

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4. 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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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"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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5. Chrysalis

By: Anuja Varghese

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more

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6. 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

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  • poetry
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7. The Premonition

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.43

Format: 133 pages, Hardcover

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more

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"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

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8. Mongrel

By: Hanako Footman

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more

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"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."

-Hanako Footman, Mongrel

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9. Bad Diaspora Poems

By: Momtaza Mehri

4.29

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE 2023*Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on yo… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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10. Bright Fear

By: Mary Jean Chan

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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11. Self-Portrait as Othello

By: Jason Allen-Paisant

4.02

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Long… read more

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  • poetry
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12. Nobody

By: Alice Oswald

4.14

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

A partnership between two art forms, Nobody is a unique crossover work - both a book and an exhibit… read more

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  • poetry
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13. Another Way to Split Water

By: Alycia Pirmohamed

4.37

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

LONGLISTED 2023 JHALAK PRIZE LONGLISTED 2023 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLISTED 2023 RAYMON… read more

Similar categories in Alycia Pirmohamed's Another Way to Split Water book and Alycia Pirmohamed's Another Way to Split Water

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"I stoop into my longings, plot a seed in every corner. Last week I titled another page within my body and surrendered every bending, spitting line of myself to the making."

-Alycia Pirmohamed, Another Way to Split Water

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14. Four Seasons in Japan

By: Nick Bradley

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation… read more

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"Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"You don’t have to, though,’ his friend said, with a tilt of his head. ‘You can do whatever you like, man. It’s your life. Don’t live it for other people."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"But the important thing is that you turn up, you get out your pen, and you draw one small thing, one line at a time. That’s how you achieve something big."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"I remember looking out into that dark night sky, and I remember feeling something I hadn’t in a long time – I want to live. Having found myself that close to death, I suddenly knew that I wasn’t read…"

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

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15. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

By: Nam Le

4.05

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat In his first … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick

16. Eat or We Both Starve

By: Victoria Kennefick

4.10

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

A daring first collection from an exciting young Irish poet, tackling how to live with the past and… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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17. My Darling from the Lions

By: Rachel Long

3.78

Format: None pages, None

Described as a narrative collection in three parts, My Darling from the Lions “threads experiences … read more

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  • poetry
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18. Cowboy

By: Kandace Siobhan Walker

4.26

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet-sick, funny, with deep of embodied and disem… read more

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  • poetry
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19. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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20. Siblings

By: Bernard, Jay

4.29

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Convened by Will Harris, ​Siblings is a roundtable conversation between four poets on writing commu… read more

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21. A Little Resurrection

By: Selina Nwulu

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Little Resurrection is the debut full-length collection from acclaimed poet Selina Nwulu. In t… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction

12 Top poetry books like Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed

Transform Your Habits

Obit

Victoria Chang

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Quiet

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Bad Diaspora Poems

Momtaza Mehri

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Bright Fear

Mary Jean Chan

4.17

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19 Top fiction books like Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Transform Your Habits

Chrysalis

Anuja Varghese

3.96

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