13 Best queer books like a "Working Life" by Eileen Myles

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a "Working Life"

By: Eileen Myles

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection …

If you liked the queer plot in a "Working Life" by Eileen Myles , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Meditations in an Emergency

By: Frank O'Hara

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclai… read more

Similar categories in Frank O'Hara's Meditations in an Emergency book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • american
Cover of I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995--1996 (Semiotext by Kathy Acker, McKenzie Wark, John Kinsella, Matias Viegener

2. I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995--1996 (Semiotext

By: Kathy Acker , McKenzie Wark , John Kinsella , Matias Viegener

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Kathy Acker's I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995--1996 (Semiotext book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt

3. Heroines

By: Kate Zambreno

3.12

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking th… read more

Similar categories in Kate Zambreno's Heroines book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

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4. 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 Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • 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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5. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • american
  • nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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6. 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 Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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7. Love Me Tender

By: Constance Debré

3.87

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Love Me Tender book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

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8. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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9. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Millner's Couplets book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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10. 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 Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • 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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11. 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 Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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12. 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 Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
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13. 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 Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • 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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14. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

Similar categories in Sam Sax's Pig: Poems book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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15. Promises of Gold

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more

Similar categories in José Olivarez's Promises of Gold book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • american
  • nonfiction
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16. 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 Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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17. Like Love: Essays and Conversations

By: Maggie Nelson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Like Love: Essays and Conversations book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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18. Swollening

By: Jason Purcell

4.09

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Jason Purcell’s debut collection of poems rests at the intersection of queerness and illness, staki… read more

Similar categories in Jason Purcell's Swollening book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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19. a "Working Life"

By: Eileen Myles

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection … read more

Similar categories in Eileen Myles's a "Working Life" book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • american
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Jackie Wang

20. Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

By: Jackie Wang

4.39

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, … read more

Similar categories in Jackie Wang's Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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21. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Zaher's The Coin book and Eileen Myles's a "Working Life"

  • queer
  • lgbt
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995--1996 (Semiotext

Kathy Acker , McKenzie Wark , John Kinsella , Matias Viegener

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

Transform Your Habits

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Sheila Heti

4.02

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Wrong Norma

Anne Carson

4.33

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Miranda July

3.81

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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