13 Top nonfiction books like suddenly we by Evie Shockley

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suddenly we

By: Evie Shockley

4.34

Format: 112 pages, Audiobook

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious "we"In her new poet…

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1. Second Empire

By: Richie Hofmann

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The delicate arc of these poems intimates--rather than tells--a love story: celebration, fear of l… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night by Morgan  Parker

2. Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night

By: Morgan Parker

3.79

Format: None pages,

Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night is a powerful debut collection from a promising new and… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction

3. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

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4. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

5. 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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  • poetry
"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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6. 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
  • 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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7. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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8. 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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  • poetry
Cover of Bluest Nude: Poems by Ama Codjoe

9. 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

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  • poetry
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10. From From: Poems

By: Monica Youn

4.18

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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11. 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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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

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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13. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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14. 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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  • poetry
"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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15. 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

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  • poetry
Cover of Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves

16. Best Barbarian: Poems

By: Roger Reeves

4.10

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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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

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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18. The Lights: Poems

By: Ben Lerner

3.84

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more

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  • poetry
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19. suddenly we

By: Evie Shockley

4.34

Format: 112 pages, Audiobook

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious "we"In her new poet… read more

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

20. 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

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  • poetry
Cover of Root Fractures: Poems by Diana Khoi Nguyen

21. Root Fractures: Poems

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

22. Tripas: Poems

By: Brandon Som

3.95

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poet… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118) by Cindy Juyoung Ok

23. Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118)

By: Cindy Juyoung Ok

4.37

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation   “The… read more

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  • poetry
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24. Blood Snow

By: dg nanouk okpik

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

American Book Award–winning poet dg okpik’s second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continu… read more

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  • poetry
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25. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

By: torrin a. greathouse

4.42

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Spectral Evidence: Poems by Gregory Pardlo

26. Spectral Evidence: Poems

By: Gregory Pardlo

4.11

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-win… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of How to Communicate: Poems by John Lee Clark

27. How to Communicate: Poems

By: John Lee Clark

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry A stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBl… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return by C.A.  Conrad

28. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

By: C.A. Conrad

4.40

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Following their book AMANDA Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Priz… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Pérez

29. From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]

By: Craig Santos Pérez

4.42

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Experimental and visual poems diving into the history and culture of the poet’s homeland, Guam.   … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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30. Beyond Belief: Poems

By: John Koethe

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A rich, meditative new collection of poetry from John Koethe, the "necessary and great poet" ( Hype… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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31. Toward Eternity

By: Anton Hur

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In … read more

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27 Top poetry books like suddenly we by Evie Shockley

Transform Your Habits

Second Empire

Richie Hofmann

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night

Morgan Parker

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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9 must-read nonfiction books like Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

From From: Poems

Monica Youn

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Wrong Norma

Anne Carson

4.33

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