24 Top poetry books like Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman

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Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

By: Wanda Coleman

4.28

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

A voice the world needs the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Haye…

"to love and not act is to not know love"

-Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

"to love and not act is to not know love"

-Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

"only love could want this body wanting guarantees love"

-Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

"only love could want this body wanting guarantees love"

-Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

If you liked the poetry plot in Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Blind Huber

By: Nick Flynn

3.97

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

Award-winning poet Nick Flynn takes readers into the dangerous and irresistible center of the hiveI… read more

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  • poetry
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2. The Dead and the Living

By: Sharon Olds , Judith Henry

4.17

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collect… read more

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  • poetry
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3. Meadowlands

By: Louise Glück

4.08

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Louise Glück sows the fertile subject ground of marital discord in harvesting this crop of gems. Th… read more

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  • poetry
  • poetry plays
"Watching you stare into space in the tidy rows of the vegetable garden, ostensibly working hard while actually doing the worst job possible, I think you are a small irritating purple thing and I woul…"

-Louise Glück, Meadowlands

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4. Why Poetry

By: Matthew Zapruder

4.16

Format: 256 pages, ebook

An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibil… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Power Politics

By: Margaret Atwood

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Margaret Atwood's Power Politicsfirst appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance… read more

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  • poetry

6. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

By: Morgan Parker

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonceuses political and pop-cultural references as a framewo… read more

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7. What Narcissism Means to Me

By: Tony Hoagland

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

An eagerly awaited new collection of poems by contemporary favorite Tony Hoagland, author of Donkey… read more

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8. War of the Foxes

By: Richard Siken

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more

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9. Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth

By: William Bryant Logan

3.83

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

"You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very much about." So begins the cult cl… read more

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10. Thrall

By: Natasha Trethewey

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by America's new Poe… read more

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11. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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12. Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline… read more

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13. Felon: Poems

By: Reginald Dwayne Betts

4.34

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • african american
"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

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14. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • poetry
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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15. 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
  • race
"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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16. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

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  • poetry
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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17. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • african american
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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18. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

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  • poetry
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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19. 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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  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • race
  • african american
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20. Oceanic

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.08

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

21. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By: Terrance Hayes

4.27

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more

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  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • race
  • african american
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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22. Normal Distance

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A collection of funny and thought-provoking poems inspired by surprising facts that will appeal to … read more

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  • poetry
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23. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

By: Wanda Coleman

4.28

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

A voice the world needs the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Haye… read more

Similar categories in Wanda Coleman's Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems book and Wanda Coleman's Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

  • poetry
  • race
  • poetry plays
  • 21st century
  • african american
"to love and not act is to not know love"

-Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

"only love could want this body wanting guarantees love"

-Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

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24. Wade in the Water: Poems

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.10

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more

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  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • race
  • african american
"History is a ship forever setting sail."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

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25. Twenty-Ninth Year

By: Hala Alyan

3.91

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more

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  • poetry
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

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26. Concentrate

By: Courtney Faye Taylor

4.58

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths In her virtuosic deb… read more

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  • poetry
  • african american
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27. 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

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  • poetry
  • race
  • poetry plays
  • african american
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28. The Sorrow Apartments

By: Andrea Cohen

4.13

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

About Andrea Cohen’s poems, Christian Wiman has “One is caught off guard by their cumulative force… read more

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  • poetry
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29. New and Selected Poems

By: Marie Howe

4.49

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An indispensable collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin

30. Crossfire: A Litany for Survival

By: Staceyann Chin

4.36

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

“Staceyann Chin’s Crossfire is a remarkable collection from a dynamic and talented writer, whose ur… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga by Ntozake Shange

31. The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga

By: Ntozake Shange

4.09

Format: 79 pages, Hardcover

Poetic monologues examine monogamy, chastity, love, Black urban life, mortality, and redemption read more

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  • poetry
  • african american

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Transform Your Habits

Felon: Poems

Reginald Dwayne Betts

4.34

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Alive At The End Of The World

Saeed Jones

4.35

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Magical Negro

Morgan Parker

4.31

Transform Your Habits

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Terrance Hayes

4.27

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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

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Jasmine Mans

4.44

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Jericho Brown

4.24

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Fatimah Asghar

4.24

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