9 must-read nonfiction books like Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

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Tripas: Poems

By: Brandon Som

3.95

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poet…

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1. 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 Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"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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2. 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 Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
"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 Pilgrim Bell: Poems by Kaveh Akbar

3. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Pilgrim Bell: Poems book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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4. 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

Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
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5. From From: Poems

By: Monica Youn

4.18

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more

Similar categories in Monica Youn's From From: Poems book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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6. 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

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry: Poems book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
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7. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

Similar categories in Anne Carson's Wrong Norma book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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8. Trace Evidence: Poems

By: Charif Shanahan

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more

Similar categories in Charif Shanahan's Trace Evidence: Poems book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Judas Goat: Poems by Gabrielle Bates

9. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Bates's Judas Goat: Poems book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limon

10. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Year of Last Things: Poems by Michael Ondaatje

11. A Year of Last Things: Poems

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.61

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more

Similar categories in Michael Ondaatje's A Year of Last Things: Poems book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff

12. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Schiff's Information Desk: An Epic book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
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13. Rangikura

By: Tayi Tibble

4.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let th… read more

Similar categories in Tayi Tibble's Rangikura book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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14. Fixer: Poems

By: Edgar Kunz

4.20

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edg… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Kunz's Fixer: Poems book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

15. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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16. To 2040

By: Jorie Graham

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single wor… read more

Similar categories in Jorie Graham's To 2040 book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

17. Tripas: Poems

By: Brandon Som

3.95

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poet… read more

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  • poetry
  • china
  • nonfiction
Cover of With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang

18. With My Back to the World: Poems

By: Victoria Chang

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems by Mary Jo Bang

19. A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems

By: Mary Jo Bang

3.80

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked… read more

Similar categories in Mary Jo Bang's A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Pérez

20. From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]

By: Craig Santos Pérez

4.42

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Experimental and visual poems diving into the history and culture of the poet’s homeland, Guam.   … read more

Similar categories in Craig Santos Pérez's From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bluff: Poems by Danez Smith

21. Bluff: Poems

By: Danez Smith

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Bluff: Poems book and Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems

  • poetry

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