25 Best poetry books like Sho by Douglas Kearney

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Sho

By: Douglas Kearney

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with …

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

1. 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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  • poetry
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2. Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip

By: Lisa Robertson

3.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

ANew York TimesNotable Book of 2010 Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, tre… read more

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  • poetry
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3. Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more

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  • poetry
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4. Short Talks

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poetry. In Anne Carson's SHORT TALKS the reader is bombarded with short prose poems that resound wi… read more

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  • poetry

5. Sand Opera

By: Philip Metres

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

"Sand Operais what political poetry must be like today in our age of seemingly permanent war."--Mar… read more

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6. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

7. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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8. Thunderstruck & Other Stories

By: Elizabeth McCracken

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House--finalist for the National Book Award--comes… read more

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9. 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
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10. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

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  • poetry
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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11. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

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12. Vexations (Phoenix Poets)

By: Annelyse Gelman

4.38

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental boo… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Pilgrim Bell: Poems by Kaveh Akbar

13. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

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"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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14. 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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15. A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

By: Hoa Nguyen

3.89

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Hoa Nguyen’s latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressur… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Heart First into this Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets by Wanda Coleman

16. Heart First into this Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets

By: Wanda Coleman

4.26

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The first complete collection of Wanda Coleman’s original and inventive sonnets. Long regarded as a… read more

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  • poetry
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17. 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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  • poetry
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18. The Renunciations: Poems

By: Donika Kelly

4.29

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more

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  • poetry
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19. 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

Cover of Trace Evidence: Poems by Charif Shanahan

20. 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
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21. 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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  • poetry
"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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22. 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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23. Nobody

By: Alice Oswald

4.14

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

A partnership between two art forms, Nobody is a unique crossover work - both a book and an exhibit… read more

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  • poetry
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24. You Get What You Pay For: Essays

By: Morgan Parker

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more

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25. Sho

By: Douglas Kearney

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with … read more

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  • poetry
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26. feeld

By: Jos Charles

4.17

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles’s revolutionary… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Amanda Paradise by C.A.  Conrad

27. Amanda Paradise

By: C.A. Conrad

4.26

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems in… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Hoarders

By: Kate Durbin

4.28

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021 An NPR Best Book of 2021 An Electric Literature Best Poet… read more

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  • poetry
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29. 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
Cover of The Ruins of Nostalgia (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Donna Stonecipher

30. The Ruins of Nostalgia (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Donna Stonecipher

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poem … read more

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  • poetry
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31. Nazar Boy

By: Tarik Dobbs

4.48

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

From one of the most imaginative and radical voices in contemporary poetry, a debut collection of f… read more

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  • poetry

7 Top fiction books like The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

Transform Your Habits

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Donika Kelly

4.29

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