11 Top contemporary books like I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry) by Rudy Francisco

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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…

"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."

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

"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)

"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)

If you liked the contemporary plot in I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry) by Rudy Francisco , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

By: Mary Oliver

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A rich collection of ten poems, two essays, and two dozen of Mary Oliver's classic works on flowers… read more

Similar categories in Mary Oliver's Blue Iris: Poems and Essays book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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2. peluda

By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva

3.98

Format: 392 pages,

One of the most original performance poets of her generation, Melissa Lozada-Oliva has captivated c… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lozada-Oliva's peluda book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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3. 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 Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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4. No Matter the Wreckage

By: Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Kay's No Matter the Wreckage book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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5. 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

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead: Poems book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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6. Take Me with You

By: Andrea Gibson

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

For readers of Rupi Kaur (Milk and Honey) and Atticus (Love Her Wild), a book small enough to carry… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's Take Me with You book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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7. Depression & Other Magic Tricks

By: Sabrina Benaim

4.27

Format: 359 pages,

Depression & Other Magic Tricksis the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performa… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Benaim's Depression & Other Magic Tricks book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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8. The Madness Vase: By Andrea Gibson

By: Andrea Gibson

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Andrea Gibson's second book of poems, TITLE, offers a breathtaking continuation of the poet's most … read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's The Madness Vase: By Andrea Gibson book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • contemporary
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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9. 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 Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult

10. Autopsy

By: None

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Written after the death of his mother, Donte Collins's Autopsy establishes the poet as one of the m… read more

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11. 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 Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"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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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 Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"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. Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

By: Jared Singer

3.93

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Singer’s highly anticipated debut book collects and transforms work from his ten years as a mainsta… read more

Similar categories in Jared Singer's Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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14. The Future

By: Neil Hilborn

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Neil Hilborn's highly anticipated second collection of poems, The Future, invites readers to find c… read more

Similar categories in Neil Hilborn's The Future book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • contemporary
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"When I was little I broke both my ankles jumping off a roof because I was sure a cape would enable me to fly. My parents attributed this to my strong imagination. Last year my therapist called it a d…"

-Neil Hilborn, The Future

"I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave. See, when I’m up I don’t kill …"

-Neil Hilborn, The Future

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15. 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 Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"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)

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16. 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 Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

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

-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

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17. 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 Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"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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18. 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 Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (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)

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19. 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 Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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20. Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)

By: Ollie Schminkey

4.26

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dead Dad Jokes is an unflinching take on family, loss and trauma. There is nothing quiet about Schm… read more

Similar categories in Ollie Schminkey's Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry) book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"when i spell grief, i can never remember if the i or e comes first, so i spend each day autocorrecting my greif, my grief, greif, grief, greif, until i can finally figure out what the fuck it is i’m …"

-Ollie Schminkey, Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)

"i see an old man using a walker on the sidewalk, and my stomach aches for those 30 years my dad never got. if i die at the same age as my dad, my life is almost half up. i imagine him sitting at a pa…"

-Ollie Schminkey, Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)

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21. Born in a Second Language

By: Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie

4.04

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Born in a Second Language troubles the spectrum between silence (or the limitations of the mouth) a… read more

Similar categories in Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie's Born in a Second Language book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
Cover of I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month) by Martina McGowan

22. I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month)

By: Martina McGowan

4.33

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

I am The Rage is a poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpo… read more

Similar categories in Martina McGowan's I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month) book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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23. I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems

By: Sabrina Benaim

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time, a collection exploring loneliness, anxie… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Benaim's I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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24. Fat Girl Finishing School

By: Rachel Wiley

4.24

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

“Fat girls of the world will find their voice through Wiley’s brilliance, and we all owe her for th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Wiley's Fat Girl Finishing School book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of SINK (Button Poetry) by Desireé Dallagiacomo

25. SINK (Button Poetry)

By: Desireé Dallagiacomo

4.27

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Desireé Dallagiacomo's debut book grapples with the intersections of family and mental health. Sink… read more

Similar categories in Desireé Dallagiacomo's SINK (Button Poetry) book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
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26. Date & Time (Button Poetry)

By: Phil Kaye

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Phil Kaye's debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and cel… read more

Similar categories in Phil Kaye's Date & Time (Button Poetry) book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
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27. Nothing Is Okay

By: Rachel Wiley

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Nothing is Okay is the second full-length collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously dec… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Wiley's Nothing Is Okay book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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28. Butcher

By: Natasha T. Miller

4.16

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Butcher is a book about love & loss — about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha… read more

Similar categories in Natasha T. Miller's Butcher book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • mental health
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29. In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

By: Clementine von Radics

3.79

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

A lyrical poet, Clementine von Radics presents In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive,  a collection o… read more

Similar categories in Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"I am afraid I will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again."

-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

"There is a better version of this story where we both leave him. Instead of loving him so much it felt like church. Building a cathedral inside his crooked mouth."

-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

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30. Please Come Off-Book (Button Poetry)

By: Kevin Kantor

4.31

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Please Come Off-Book queers the theatrical canon we all grew up with. Kantor critiques the treatmen… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Kantor's Please Come Off-Book (Button Poetry) book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry
"So glory to the queers who live to see the credits roll"

-Kevin Kantor, Please Come Off-Book (Button Poetry)

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31. I Shimmer Sometimes, Too

By: Porsha Olayiwola

4.43

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Porsha O's debut poetry collection soars with the power and presence of live performance. These poe… read more

Similar categories in Porsha Olayiwola's I Shimmer Sometimes, Too book and Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

  • poetry

19 must-read adult books like I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry) by Rudy Francisco

Transform Your Habits

Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

Mary Oliver

4.06

Transform Your Habits

peluda

Melissa Lozada-Oliva

3.98

Transform Your Habits

No Matter the Wreckage

Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

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17 must-read adult books like I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems by Sabrina Benaim

Transform Your Habits

No Matter the Wreckage

Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Take Me with You

Andrea Gibson

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Our Numbered Days

Neil Hilborn

4.24

Transform Your Habits

I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

Kate Baer

4.28

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