20 Top poetry books like Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz

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Hotel Oblivion

By: Cynthia Cruz

4.16

Format: 110 pages, ebook

A specter, haunting the edges of society: because neoliberalism insists there are no social classes…

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1. Blood Dazzler

By: Patricia Smith

4.42

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-bl… read more

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2. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

By: Ross Gay

4.25

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more

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"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

3. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

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4. 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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5. 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

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"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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6. 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

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"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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7. Last Days

By: Tamiko Beyer

3.97

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Last Days is a practice of radical imagination for our current political and environmental crises. … read more

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8. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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9. 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

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10. Have You Been Long Enough At Table

By: Leslie Sainz

4.27

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Marvelous.”―Terrance Hayes Taking its title from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea , Leslie Sain… read more

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11. Meltwater: Poems

By: Claire Wahmanholm

4.45

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

A haunting collection that inhabits a disquieting future where fear is the governing body, “the org… read more

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12. Brute: Poems

By: Emily Skaja

4.03

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more

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"unfull but full of loathing"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"I know what to do with the dark."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

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13. Deluge

By: Leila Chatti

4.55

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this … read more

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14. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive

By: Katie Farris

4.31

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more

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15. 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

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16. Be Holding

By: Ross Gay

4.60

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated… 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. Hotel Oblivion

By: Cynthia Cruz

4.16

Format: 110 pages, ebook

A specter, haunting the edges of society: because neoliberalism insists there are no social classes… read more

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19. Tapping Out: Poems

By: Nandi Comer

3.96

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The relentless motions and blinding colors of lucha libre, the high-flying wrestling sport, are the… read more

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20. Climate Lyricism

By: Min Hyoung Song

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Climate Lyricism Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that for… read more

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Cover of Hello I Must Be Going: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by David Hernandez

21. Hello I Must Be Going: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

By: David Hernandez

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Finalist, 2023 NBCC Award for Poetry Finalist, 2022 California Book Award for Poetry Hello I Mu… read more

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17 Top poetry books like Deluge by Leila Chatti

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

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What the Living Do: Poems

Marie Howe

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Crush

Richard Siken

3.67

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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