9 Best queer books like Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems by Carl Phillips

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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…

If you liked the queer plot in Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems by Carl Phillips , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Fury

By: Salman Rushdie

3.30

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Малик Соланка, миллионер из Бомбея, получивший образование в Кембридже, пытается убежать от самого … read more

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Fury book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

"What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?"

-Salman Rushdie, Fury

"Neela had dressed for beauty, not for warmth, and the afternoon had lost its glow. Solanka took off his coat and put it over her trembling shoulders. All around them in the park the colours were fadi…"

-Salman Rushdie, Fury

"Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury — sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal — drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, b…"

-Salman Rushdie, Fury

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2. Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.95

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" comes an enc… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Our memories change as we do."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"Most of us can only see the world we know."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"Love affairs are discoveries of new worlds."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"The future is not fixed unless we allow it to be so."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

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3. Faithful and Virtuous Night

By: Louise Glück

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more

Similar categories in Louise Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • poetry
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4. Love Poems

By: Pablo Neruda , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel… read more

Similar categories in Pablo Neruda's Love Poems book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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5. Gut Symmetries

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Physics seems to have become the new language of love in the 1990s, and Jeanette Winterson is not t… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Gut Symmetries book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • lgbt
  • queer

6. Blue Eyes, Black Hair

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

Emotionally charged, sparsely written, and vicariously compelling, Marguerite Duras's novel centers… read more

Similar categories in Marguerite Duras's Blue Eyes, Black Hair book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

7. Paddington Abroad (Paddington Bear, #4)

By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Paddington gets himself into one scrape after another on a family trip to France, including acciden… read more

Similar categories in Michael Bond's Paddington Abroad (Paddington Bear, #4) book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

8. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

Similar categories in Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

9. Frida Kahlo: Una biografía

By: María Hesse

4.28

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

"Pies para que os quiero, si tengo alas para volar" Frida Kahlo fue algo mas que dolor y angustia. … read more

Similar categories in María Hesse's Frida Kahlo: Una biografía book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

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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

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"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. 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 Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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12. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

By: Paul Tran

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more

Similar categories in Paul Tran's All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets) book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

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13. 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

Similar categories in Solmaz Sharif's Customs: Poems book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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15. Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco

By: K. Iver

4.59

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr P… read more

Similar categories in K. Iver's Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. 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

Similar categories in Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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17. Dîner à Montréal

By: Philippe Besson

3.92

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Ils se sont aimés, à l'âge des possibles, puis quittés, sans réelle explication. Dix-huit ans plus … read more

Similar categories in Philippe Besson's Dîner à Montréal book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero by Margarita Engle

18. With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

By: Margarita Engle

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A novel in verse about Rubén Darío, the Nicaraguan poet and folk hero who initiated the literary mo… read more

Similar categories in Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle

19. Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air

By: Margarita Engle

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A School Library Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2019! In this powerful companion to her award-w… read more

Similar categories in Margarita Engle's Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"When all else fails, trust the library."

-Margarita Engle, Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air

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20. Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

By: Deidre Huesmann

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

~Editor's Pick~ With Jeff Young’s fantastic grades, he should be a great tutor. But he’s terri… read more

Similar categories in Deidre Huesmann's Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1) book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Looks like Quackula got the best of you,"

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

"Braeden, I’m in love with you. I’m sorry. - Jeff"

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

"Jeff gnawed on his tongue. “I’ve always been small for my age. Maya, too."

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

"Maya lifted a bony shoulder. “Besides, even if he had messed with the babies, you kind of overshadowed it by killing a pelican."

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

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21. Refluxul sensurilor

By: Ana Blandiana

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sa fii stanca in mare, Sa te izbeasca fara incetare Valurile fluxului si ale refluxului, S… read more

Similar categories in Ana Blandiana's Refluxul sensurilor book and Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

  • poetry

6 Top adult books like Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems by Carl Phillips

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Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

Jeanette Winterson

3.95

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Diane Seuss

4.50

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The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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Customs: Poems

Solmaz Sharif

4.21

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9 best-selling poetry books like Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle

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Boris

Cynthia Rylant

3.97

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Faithful and Virtuous Night

Louise Glück

4.11

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Love Poems

Pablo Neruda , None

3.00

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The Dark Between Stars

Atticus Poetry

3.96

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