19 best-selling poetry books like Closer Baby Closer by Savannah Brown

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Closer Baby Closer

By: Savannah Brown

4.18

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy …

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1. In the Presence of Absence

By: Mahmoud Darwish , محمود درويش , Sinan Antoon

4.36

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

"Darwish is to be read with urgency, in the night, when nothing else moves but his lines." —The Vil… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"هل أبتعدت لتقترب أم اقتربت لتبتعد"

-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

"الحنين يكذب ولا يتعب من الكذب لأنه يكذب بصدق ."

-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

"Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third."

-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

"الحنين مسامرة الغائب للغائب , و التفات البعيد إلى البعيد ."

-Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

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2. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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  • romance
  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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3. Hera Lindsay Bird

By: Hera Lindsay Bird

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl.........with many beneficial… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt

4. 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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5. 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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6. 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
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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7. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

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  • romance
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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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
  • queer
  • lgbt
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9. On Sun Swallowing

By: Dakota Warren

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

“On Sun Swallowing is a sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinne… read more

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  • poetry
"IT'S PURGATORY BUT ITS LIVEABLE"

-Dakota Warren, On Sun Swallowing

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10. Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

By: Forugh Farrokhzad

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"I dreamed of that red star when I wasn’t asleep"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

"Düşler daima Saflıklarının yüksekliğinden fırlatılıp ölürler"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

"Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarette in the narcotic repose between two love-makings or the absent gaze of a passerby who takes off his hat to another passerby with a meaningless smile and a good …"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

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11. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

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  • poetry
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12. Soft Science

By: Franny Choi

3.93

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's Soft Science book and Savannah Brown's Closer Baby Closer

  • lesbian
  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
"having been hurt before"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"fiended; fell for another"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"it's too late to stop smiling."

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

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13. Brute: Poems

By: Emily Skaja

4.03

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
"unfull but full of loathing"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"I know what to do with the dark."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

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14. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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15. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

Similar categories in Tayi Tibble's Poukahangatus: Poems book and Savannah Brown's Closer Baby Closer

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. Closer Baby Closer

By: Savannah Brown

4.18

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy … read more

Similar categories in Savannah Brown's Closer Baby Closer book and Savannah Brown's Closer Baby Closer

  • romance
  • poetry
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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17. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

By: Taylor Byas

4.37

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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18. Notes on Shapeshifting

By: Gabi Abrão

3.94

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Abrāo’s work has been described by The Outline as “an existential funhouse of familiar thoughts” th… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"A new crush enters like an angel."

-Gabi Abrão, Notes on Shapeshifting

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19. Floozie

By: Becca Fang

4.36

Format: 32 pages, None

Becca Fang's second pamphlet is an impassioned eye-roll to the tribulations of modern girlhood. … read more

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  • poetry
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20. Grocery List Poems

By: Rhiannon McGavin

4.28

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

If the word stanza means "room", then this book is an orchard. Rhiannon McGavin crafts poems with s… read more

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  • poetry
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21. Memory Foam

By: Dan Power

4.33

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In Dan Power's Memory Foam, a mild-mannered AI offers its view on mortal topics like loneliness and… read more

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  • poetry

8 must-read nonfiction books like Closer Baby Closer by Savannah Brown

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4.36

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4.19

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4.19

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Forugh Farrokhzad

4.16

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A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Mary Oliver

4.21

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Maggie Nelson

4.22

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Claire Keegan

3.86

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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