14 Top poetry books like Out of Order (Donald Justice Poetry Prize) by Alexis Sears

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Out of Order (Donald Justice Poetry Prize)

By: Alexis Sears

4.78

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A debut collection featuring formally diverse poems that address topics from misogyny and mental he…

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1. After the Revival

By: Carrie Jerrell

4.18

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Equal parts church hymnal and outlaw country… read more

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2. Circles Where the Head Should Be

By: Caki Wilkinson

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2010. The poems in Circles Where the Head Should Beare… read more

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3. Lost In The City

By: Edward P. Jones

3.77

Format: None pages,

A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women i… read more

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4. All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

By: Edward P. Jones

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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5. No Object

By: Natalie Shapero

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

-It is unbefitting to believe in ghosts, to believe what one reads, /what one writes, - writes Nata… read more

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6. The Determined Days: Poems

By: Philip Stephens

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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7. A Scattering of Salts

By: James Merrill

3.79

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

The tragic death of James Merrill in February 1995 coincided with the publication in hardcover of t… read more

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8. Wednesday's Child: Stories

By: Yiyun Li

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more

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9. 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

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"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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10. Barbie Chang

By: Victoria Chang

4.15

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Barbie’s cultural artifice is unmasked by Victoria Chang’s imagination, lifting the struggle of Asi… read more

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11. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

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12. 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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13. Disease of Kings: Poems

By: Anders Carlson-Wee

4.48

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid chronicle of friendship amidst “a harrowing dive into late-empire America” (Patrick Phillip… read more

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14. Oceanic

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.08

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the… read more

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15. Magdalene: Poems

By: Marie Howe

4.10

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene… read more

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"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing w…"

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only …"

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

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16. Guillotine: Poems

By: Eduardo C. Corral

4.34

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more

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17. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

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18. Out of Order (Donald Justice Poetry Prize)

By: Alexis Sears

4.78

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A debut collection featuring formally diverse poems that address topics from misogyny and mental he… read more

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19. Cracks in the Invisible

By: Stephen Kampa

3.96

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Stephen Kampa’s poems are witty and restless in their pursuit of an intelligent modern faith. They … read more

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Cover of Cain Named the Animal: Poems by Shane McCrae

20. Cain Named the Animal: Poems

By: Shane McCrae

3.70

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, “a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan… read more

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Cover of The Body Wars: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by Jan Beatty

21. The Body Wars: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

By: Jan Beatty

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

What would it take to be home in one’s body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain … read more

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15 Top poetry books like Magdalene: Poems by Marie Howe

Transform Your Habits

Averno

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (Swenson Poetry Award)

Luisa A. Igloria

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Dark Hours

Conchitina R. Cruz

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Incarnadine: Poems

Mary Szybist

3.00

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