23 best-selling poetry books like Gut: Poems (Miller Williams Poetry Prize) by J. Bailey Hutchinson

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Gut: Poems (Miller Williams Poetry Prize)

By: J. Bailey Hutchinson

4.38

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Winner, 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize J. Bailey Hutchinson’s Gut is the dazzling debut of a bor…

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1. [insert] boy

By: Danez Smith

3.19

Format: None pages, Paperback

The next time someone tells you spoken word poets can't make poems come to life on the page, send t… read more

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2. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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3. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

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"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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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

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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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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

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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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6. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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7. bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Sam Sax

4.18

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Sam Sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begi… read more

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8. Las Biuty Queens

By: Iván Monalisa Ojeda

3.82

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In this acclaimed story collection, Chilean transgender performer and author Iván Monalisa Ojeda de… read more

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9. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

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"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

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10. 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

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"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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11. Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems

By: Kim Addonizio

4.05

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A dark, no-holds-barred, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet, veering between … read more

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"I'm just going to have one last blackout in a dirty pink lace dress"

-Kim Addonizio, Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems

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12. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

By: Alice Wong

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more

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13. 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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14. 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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15. Manywhere: Stories

By: Morgan Thomas

3.81

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Morgan Thomas's Manywhere features lush and uncompromising stories about characters crossing geogra… read more

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16. 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

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  • poetry
"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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17. 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

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18. Gut: Poems (Miller Williams Poetry Prize)

By: J. Bailey Hutchinson

4.38

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Winner, 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize J. Bailey Hutchinson’s Gut is the dazzling debut of a bor… read more

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19. Gay Girl Prayers

By: Emily R. Austin

4.10

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more

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20. When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance: Poems

By: Joan Baez

3.83

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. J… read more

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21. How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Seedbank)

By: Mikeas Sánchez

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the … read more

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22. Anodyne

By: Khadijah Queen

4.06

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

The poems that make up Anodyne consider the small moments that enrapture us alongside the daily thr… read more

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23. Some Integrity

By: Padraig Regan

4.09

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021 In 'Minty', one of the typically charged and capacious p… read more

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24. Permanent Volta

By: Rosie Stockton

4.39

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

FINALIST for the 2022 California Book Awards in Poetry! FINALIST for the 2022 Publishing Triangle's… read more

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25. PLEASURE

By: Angelo Nikolopoulos

3.92

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

PLEASURE is a book-length poem which muses on the phenomenology of solitude in a pastoral landscape… read more

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26. Set to Music a Wildfire

By: Ruth Awad

4.61

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. In Lebanon during the civil war, a teenage boy and … read more

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27. 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

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28. Decompose

By: S. Fey

4.78

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Our life contains several lives as well as several deaths; we attempt to understand these little re… read more

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29. To Be Named Something Else (Miller Williams Poetry Prize)

By: Shaina Phenix

4.80

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

To Be Named Something Else , winner of the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is a high-spirited ce… read more

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30. Extratransmission

By: Andrea Abi-Karam

4.40

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

EXTRATRANSMISSION is a poetic critique of nationalism, patriarchy & gender embedded in an explosive… read more

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31. Transgenesis (National Poetry)

By: Ava Winter

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

An excavatory collection of poems tracing the connections between Jewish transfemininity, queer des… read more

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25 best-selling poetry books like Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems by Kim Addonizio

Transform Your Habits

Behind My Eyes: Poems

Li-Young Lee

4.07

Transform Your Habits

American Primitive

Mary Oliver

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Ross Gay

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

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