25 Best poetry books like What Noise Against the Cane (Volume 115) (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Desiree C. Bailey

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What Noise Against the Cane (Volume 115) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

By: Desiree C. Bailey

4.41

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, this Yale Series of Younger Poets volume is a…

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Cover of Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis

1. Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems

By: Robin Coste Lewis

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure through time introduces us to a… read more

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Cover of Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

2. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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3. Head Off & Split

By: Nikky Finney

3.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Winner of 2011 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of 2012 GLCS Award for Poetry Winner of 2012 S… read more

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4. Whereas

By: Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more

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  • poetry
  • history

5. Bestiary: Poems

By: Donika Kelly

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological m… read more

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6. The City in Which I Love You

By: Li-Young Lee

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Contents I. Furious Versionis II. The Interrogation This Hour And What Is Dead Arise, Go Down My Fa… read more

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7. 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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8. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

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"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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9. 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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"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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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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11. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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12. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)

By: Rio Cortez

4.02

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more

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13. 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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14. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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Cover of Secret Lives (Secret Lives #1) by Mark de Castrique

15. Secret Lives (Secret Lives #1)

By: Mark de Castrique

3.70

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. At seventy-five years old, she looks like s… read more

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16. Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems

By: Rita Dove

4.08

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral comp… read more

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  • poetry
  • history
Cover of Guillotine: Poems by Eduardo C. Corral

17. Guillotine: Poems

By: Eduardo C. Corral

4.34

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more

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  • poetry
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18. When You Are Mine

By: Kennedy Ryan

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From the USA Today bestselling author of Before I Let Go  comes a powerful, "achingly beautiful" (A… read more

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19. What Noise Against the Cane (Volume 115) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

By: Desiree C. Bailey

4.41

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, this Yale Series of Younger Poets volume is a… read more

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  • history
  • anti racist
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20. The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: David Lehman

3.49

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry ,… read more

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21. All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance

By: EbonyJanice Moore

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?” Hip Hop… read more

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Cover of Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems by Carl Phillips

22. Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 58 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phi… read more

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Cover of Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

23. 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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Cover of Requeening: Poems by Amanda  Moore

24. Requeening: Poems

By: Amanda Moore

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft pr… read more

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Cover of Spectral Evidence: Poems by Gregory Pardlo

25. 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 Room Swept Home (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Remica Bingham-Risher

26. Room Swept Home (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Remica Bingham-Risher

4.83

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Intimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineage Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously… read more

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27. The Wet Hex

By: Sun Yung Shin

4.01

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Sun Yung Shin leads her readers into the underworld, a witchy Garden of Eden where death blooms in … read more

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Cover of Chrome Valley: Poems by Mahogany L. Browne

28. Chrome Valley: Poems

By: Mahogany L. Browne

4.16

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne’s Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait… read more

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"you ain’t had freedom / ’til you climb on bus 62 / & head to the closest mall / for a good seat at the girl fight."

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

"give me my mother’s bone structure / & her gap tooth slaughter / give me her spine—Redbone got a spine for the world."

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

Cover of Side Notes from the Archivist by Anastacia-Reneé

29. Side Notes from the Archivist

By: Anastacia-Reneé

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable femi… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of I'm Always so Serious by Karisma Price

30. I'm Always so Serious

By: Karisma Price

4.31

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

 " I’m Always so Serious  is brilliant.”   —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for  … read more

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Cover of The Collection Plate: Poems by Kendra Allen

31. The Collection Plate: Poems

By: Kendra Allen

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice  Looping exultantly … read more

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