16 Top poetry books like Sansaglit by Lean Borlongan

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Sansaglit

By: Lean Borlongan

4.38

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Ang koleksyong ito ay pagdakila sa mga pag-ibig na nananatili sa isang distansya o panig; nagpapaal…

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Cover of Si Janus Sílang at ang Pitumpu't Pitong Púsong (Janus Sílang, #3) by Edgar Calabia Samar

1. Si Janus Sílang at ang Pitumpu't Pitong Púsong (Janus Sílang, #3)

By: Edgar Calabia Samar

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Bago naglaho si Janus habang naglalaro ng tala, nakita ni Manong Joey sa utak nito ang hinahanap ni… read more

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2. Averno

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more

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  • poetry
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."

-Louise Glück, Averno

"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

Cover of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Cristina García

3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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  • poetry
"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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4. Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (Swenson Poetry Award)

By: Luisa A. Igloria

4.45

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

“When Luisa Igloria cites Epictetus―‘as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and anot… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Dark Hours

By: Conchitina R. Cruz

4.26

Format: 68 pages,

“At this historical moment when the issue of how to respond to suffering is so fraught as to leave … read more

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  • poetry
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6. The Adamant

By: Mary Ruefle

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

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7. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • poetry
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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8. Night Picnic: Poems

By: Charles Simic

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Charles Simic's new collection evoke a variety of settings and images, from New York C… read more

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  • poetry
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9. There is no emergency

By: Conchitina R. Cruz

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
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10. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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11. Si Janus Sílang at ang Tiyanak ng Tábon (Janus Sílang, #1)

By: Edgar Calabia Samar

3.89

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Sa tournament ng TALA Online sa bayan ng Balanga, namatay ang lahat ng manlalaro maliban kay Janus.… read more

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12. Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag

By: Edgardo M. Reyes

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Si Julio, isang maralitang mangingisda ay lumuwas ng Maynila upang hanapin ang kanyang kababata't k… read more

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13. Mga Pilat sa Pilak: Mga Personal na Sanaysay

By: Eugene Y. Evasco

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

"Simple, kumbersasyonal ang tono, may mga paksang karaniwan ngunit nilapitan sa di pangkaraniwang i… read more

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14. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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  • poetry
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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15. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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16. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

By: Patricia Evangelista

4.18

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more

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17. Patron Saints of Nothing

By: Randy Ribay

4.23

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncov… read more

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"We failed him in life. We should not fail him in death."

-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing

"English is a language that lives in the middle of the mouth, but Tagalog is more of an open throat song that dances between the tip of the tongue and the teeth. My mouth feels too heavy, too thick, t…"

-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing

"But there are good things I can hold on to and there are other things I have the power to change. My family, myself, this world--al of us are flawed. But flawed doesn't mean hopeless. It doesn't mean…"

-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing

"Maybe he was reaching out to me through those words, and I let him slip away. I stayed silent. If I had written to him more often, been more honest, would it have helped him work through some of his …"

-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing

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18. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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19. Lahat ng B

By: Ricky Lee

4.04

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

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20. Magdalene: Poems

By: Marie Howe

4.10

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene… read more

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  • poetry
"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing w…"

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only …"

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

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21. elsewhere held and lingered

By: Conchitina R. Cruz

4.52

Format: 81 pages, None

elsewhere held and lingered is Conchitina Cruz’s third book, following Disappear (High Chair, 2004)… read more

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22. Sansaglit

By: Lean Borlongan

4.38

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Ang koleksyong ito ay pagdakila sa mga pag-ibig na nananatili sa isang distansya o panig; nagpapaal… read more

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23. Ang Bangin sa Ilalim ng Ating mga Paa

By: Ronaldo S. Vivo Jr.

4.66

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

“This crime thriller you hold in your hands will shove you face first, chapter by chapter, through … read more

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24. Lola Coqueta

By: Isabela Banzon

4.06

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

Direct rhythms, a wry yet personal approach to experience and memory, oblique with evasion, and ani… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Mula sa Kilometer Zero by Josue Mapagdalita

25. Mula sa Kilometer Zero

By: Josue Mapagdalita

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

""Mula sa Kilometer Zero" makes Josue Mapagdalita a master of short fiction. He does not waste time… read more

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26. Makinilyang Altar

By: Luna Sicat Cleto

4.10

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Ang Aklat Sa Makinilyang Altar, hinahabi ni Sicat-Cleto sa pamamagitan ng sinulid ng wika ang is… read more

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"Bakit humantong dito ang aking kabaliwan? Akala ko'y sa nobela lang nagaganap ang mga eksenang tulad nito. Heto ako ngayon, hubad, nakakalat sa sahig, sa ibabaw ng mesang sulatan, nakasabit sa shelf.…"

-Luna Sicat Cleto, Makinilyang Altar

Cover of Sa Antipolo Pa Rin Ang Antipolo by Abner E. Dormiendo

27. Sa Antipolo Pa Rin Ang Antipolo

By: Abner E. Dormiendo

4.64

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Ipinaalala sa atin ng mga tula ni Abner Dormiendo ang kapangyarihan ng liriko: bawat taludtod, dali… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Ang Suklam sa Ating Naaagnas na Balat by Ronaldo S.  Vivo Jr.

28. Ang Suklam sa Ating Naaagnas na Balat

By: Ronaldo S. Vivo Jr.

4.51

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

Kalansay na ang mga labi ni Divine Amadeo nang matagpuan sa isang tambak sa C-6, malapit sa Silveri… read more

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29. Bago Mo Ako Ipalaot

By: Luna Sicat Cleto

3.75

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

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30. Two or Three Things About Desire (Islands or Continents)

By: Conchitina R. Cruz

4.29

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Drawn from International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013, "Two or Three Things About Desire" is a c… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Kung Maaaring Lumutang

By: Christian Jozel Ason

4.33

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

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6 Top poetry books like Sa Antipolo Pa Rin Ang Antipolo by Abner E. Dormiendo

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Undying

Anne Boyer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Sansaglit

Lean Borlongan

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Sa Antipolo Pa Rin Ang Antipolo

Abner E. Dormiendo

4.64

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