7 best-selling essays books like The Glass Essay by Anne Carson

The Glass Essay

By: Anne Carson

4.54

Format: None pages, Online

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48636/the-glass-essay Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay” from…

"Girls are cruelest to themselves."

-Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

"Girls are cruelest to themselves."

-Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

"From girl to woman to who I am now, from love to anger to this cold marrow, from fire to shelter to fire."

-Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

"From girl to woman to who I am now, from love to anger to this cold marrow, from fire to shelter to fire."

-Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

If you liked the essays plot in The Glass Essay by Anne Carson , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. 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

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2. Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

By: Audre Lorde

4.65

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

"There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise." Thus begins this power… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible."

-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

"For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be ca…"

-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

"And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be …"

-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

"We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered. The fear of our desires ke…"

-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Cover of A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard, Wayne Koestenbaum

3. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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4. A Breath of Life

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Johnny Lorenz

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creati… read more

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  • poetry
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5. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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  • poetry

6. Monday or Tuesday

By: Virginia Woolf

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most distinguished critics and innovative authors of the twentieth century, Virginia Woo… read more

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  • short stories
  • 20th century
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7. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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8. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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  • poetry

9. On Self-Respect

By: Joan Didion

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Essay

"Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power" was first published in Vogue in 1961, and which was republish… read more

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10. La Vida Simplemente

By: None

4.11

Format: 500 pages,

A los siete anos la miseria y la podredumbre ya eran un escenario natural en la vida de Roberto. Su… read more

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11. Space Invaders

By: Nona Fernández , Jaime Pinos

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

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12. Trifles

By: Susan Glaspell

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more

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13. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

By: Maggie Nelson

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiven… read more

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14. The Complete Poems

By: Emily Brontë , Irene Taylor , None

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 1846 a small book entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell appeared on the British litera… read more

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15. A Horse at Night: On Writing

By: Amina Cain

4.03

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."

-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing

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16. On Lighthouses

By: Jazmina Barrera

3.88

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

For celebrated writer Jazmina Barrera, humanity’s fascination with the ocean is an invitation to ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"La colección más grande que tengo es la de libros. De niña solía leerlos el mismo día que los compraba. Hasta mi adolescencia, todos los ejemplares que tenía los había leído. Llegó un momento en que …"

-Jazmina Barrera, On Lighthouses

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17. 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
Cover of Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones

18. 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
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"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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19. Teoría del polen

By: Victoria Ramirez Mansilla

4.35

Format: 60 pages, None

Victoria Ramírez camina por la nervadura de las hojas. Registra las dificultades del camino hacia l… read more

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  • poetry
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20. Kun til navlen

By: Linea Maja Ernst

4.12

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Linea Maja Ernst debuterer med Kun til navlen, en samtidsroman om at være fanget i en livsfase og p… read more

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  • romance
Cover of Customs: Poems by Solmaz Sharif

21. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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22. Porque demasiado no es suficiente: Mi historia de amor con Suede

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.89

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Porque demasiado no es suficiente. Mi historia de amor con Suede es el libro más personal e íntimo … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. Camilo

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.30

Format: 33 pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
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24. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

By: Sylvia Plath

3.98

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • poetry
  • short stories
  • 20th century
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"

-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

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25. Pow pow pow

By: Christina Hagen

4.01

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

Hvad kalder man en enlig mor med en diskusprolaps? Hvad kalder man en stedfar, der går op i sovevær… read more

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  • poetry

26. The Glass Essay

By: Anne Carson

4.54

Format: None pages, Online

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48636/the-glass-essay Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay” from… read more

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  • romance
  • poetry
  • memoir
  • canadian literature
  • mental health
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 20th century
"Girls are cruelest to themselves."

-Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

"From girl to woman to who I am now, from love to anger to this cold marrow, from fire to shelter to fire."

-Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

"Charlotte’s preface to Wuthering Heights is a publicist’s masterpiece. Like someone carefully not looking at a scorpion crouched on the arm of the sofa"

-Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

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27. Desolación

By: Gabriela Mistral

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Desolación es el paisaje desolado de la Patagonia que la autora describe en "Naturaleza", parte de … read more

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  • poetry

28. The Fourth State of Matter

By: Jo Ann Beard

4.65

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • memoir
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"A small bubble of self-esteem percolated up from my depths."

-Jo Ann Beard, The Fourth State of Matter

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29. Quiltras

By: Arelis Uribe

3.90

Format: 111 pages, None

Quiltras es el primer libro de cuentos de la escritora Arelis Uribe, una joven autora que ha destac… read more

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  • short stories
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30. El vaso de leche

By: Manuel Rojas

3.74

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

None read more

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31. Contra el cliché. Genio y técnica en la poesía

By: Julieta Marchant

4.37

Format: None pages, None

¿Existen o no existen los genios?¿Y si el concepto de “genio” no fuera más que un cliché fosilizado… read more

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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Audre Lorde

4.65

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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

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Bluets

Maggie Nelson

4.22

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Amina Cain

4.03

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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

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Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

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Anne Carson

4.00

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