18 Best poetry books like With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang

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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…

If you liked the poetry plot in With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Modern Poetry: Poems by Diane Seuss

1. 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 Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
  • contemporary
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2. 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 Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
"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

Cover of Judas Goat: Poems by Gabrielle Bates

3. 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 Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

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

4. 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 Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

5. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

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

6. 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 Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Pig: Poems by Sam Sax

7. 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 Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

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

8. 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 Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
  • art
  • contemporary
Cover of Root Fractures: Poems by Diana Khoi Nguyen

9. Root Fractures: Poems

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s… read more

Similar categories in Diana Khoi Nguyen's Root Fractures: Poems book and Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali

10. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Ghazal Ali's Theophanies book and Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays by Elisa Gabbert

11. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

Similar categories in Elisa Gabbert's Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays book and Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

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

12. 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 Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
  • womens
  • contemporary
"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

Cover of Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" by Emily  Raboteau

13. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"

By: Emily Raboteau

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more

Similar categories in Emily Raboteau's Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" book and Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

Cover of Instructions for Traveling West: Poems by Joy Sullivan

14. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

Similar categories in Joy Sullivan's Instructions for Traveling West: Poems book and Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

15. 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

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

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

16. 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 Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
  • art
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • contemporary
  • womens
Cover of Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118) by Cindy Juyoung Ok

17. Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118)

By: Cindy Juyoung Ok

4.37

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation   “The… read more

Similar categories in Cindy Juyoung Ok's Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118) book and Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of The Sons of El Rey by Alex Espinoza

18. The Sons of El Rey

By: Alex Espinoza

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the American Book Award­–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's The Sons of El Rey book and Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • contemporary
Cover of Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems by Carl Phillips

19. Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems

By: Carl Phillips

4.15

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner C… read more

Similar categories in Carl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems book and Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Bluff: Poems by Danez Smith

20. 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 Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry
  • contemporary
Cover of Cloud Missives by Kenzie  Allen

21. Cloud Missives

By: Kenzie Allen

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Each poem examines a mystery. Each poem has its own Indigeneity. Each poem is its own cloud missive… read more

Similar categories in Kenzie Allen's Cloud Missives book and Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems

  • poetry

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Modern Poetry: Poems

Diane Seuss

4.53

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Information Desk: An Epic

Robyn Schiff

3.99

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Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

Elisa Gabbert

3.97

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The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

Hala Alyan

4.22

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Diane Seuss

4.50

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Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Monica Youn

4.18

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Wrong Norma

Anne Carson

4.33

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