11 Top queer books like Revenge Body (Button Poetry) by Rachel Wiley

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Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

By: Rachel Wiley

3.99

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Revenge Body is a poetry collection that explores anger (righteous and not), black identity, body i…

"water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle"

-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

If you liked the queer plot in Revenge Body (Button Poetry) by Rachel Wiley , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib

1. The Crown Ain't Worth Much

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

3.69

Format: 192 pages,

The Crown Ain t Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib s first full-length collection, is a sharp and … read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's The Crown Ain't Worth Much book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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2. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

Similar categories in Solmaz Sharif's Look book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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3. Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair

By: William Evans , William Evans

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair is the latest book by author William Evans, founder of Black Nerd… read more

Similar categories in William Evans's Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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4. Our Numbered Days

By: Neil Hilborn

4.24

Format: 212 pages,

In 2013, Neil Hilborn's performance of his poem "OCD" went viral. To date, it has been watched over… read more

Similar categories in Neil Hilborn's Our Numbered Days book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health

5. New Shoes On A Dead Horse

By: Sierra DeMulder

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Romans believed that an artist's inspiration came from a spirit, called a genius, that lived in… read more

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6. New American Best Friend

By: Olivia Gatwood

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

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7. 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

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

8. 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

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • 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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9. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky

By: Rudy Francisco

4.64

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With … read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
Cover of Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) by Andrea Gibson

10. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

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11. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

Similar categories in Chen Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

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12. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's You Better Be Lightning book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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13. If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

By: Blythe Baird

4.36

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and tri… read more

Similar categories in Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry) book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Remember: you did the best you could in the situation you were in with the materials you had."

-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

"Even though trauma has a way of becoming the wallpaper of my head, watch me drag the art out of my suffering. Watch me plant seeds down my spine and bloom into a garden of poetry from every horrible …"

-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

Cover of Revenge Body (Button Poetry) by Rachel Wiley

14. Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

By: Rachel Wiley

3.99

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Revenge Body is a poetry collection that explores anger (righteous and not), black identity, body i… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry) book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle"

-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

Cover of I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry) by Rudy Francisco

15. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.31

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry) book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

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16. Swallowtail (Button Poetry)

By: Brenna Twohy

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Swallowtail: A deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors… read more

Similar categories in Brenna Twohy's Swallowtail (Button Poetry) book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing."

-Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail (Button Poetry)

Cover of Sweet, Young, & Worried by Blythe Baird

17. Sweet, Young, & Worried

By: Blythe Baird

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This… read more

Similar categories in Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood

18. Life of the Party

By: Olivia Gatwood

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalize… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Some things are more a feeling than they are a memory."

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

"The truth is: It is a privilege to have your body looked for."

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

"You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed."

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

"I want to know what it means to survive something. does it just mean I get to keep my body?"

-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

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19. A Socially Acceptable Breakdown

By: Patrick Roche

4.26

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

A Socially Acceptable Breakdown is a poetry collection that explores themes of family, queerness, m… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Roche's A Socially Acceptable Breakdown book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom (Button Poetry) by Azura Tyabji

20. Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom (Button Poetry)

By: Azura Tyabji

3.82

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom is a crossover of our coming of age universes. Explorin… read more

Similar categories in Azura Tyabji's Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom (Button Poetry) book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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21. BloodFresh

By: Ebony Stewart

4.29

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

BloodFresh is a celebration of identity. Ebony Stewart reclaims her own narrative to speak against … read more

Similar categories in Ebony Stewart's BloodFresh book and Rachel Wiley's Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • nonfiction

13 Best adult books like Revenge Body (Button Poetry) by Rachel Wiley

Transform Your Habits

Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair

William Evans , William Evans

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Our Numbered Days

Neil Hilborn

4.24

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

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16 best-selling poetry books like Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom (Button Poetry) by Azura Tyabji

Transform Your Habits

Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair

William Evans , William Evans

4.27

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

The Trees Witness Everything

Victoria Chang

4.20

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