25 Best poetry books like Border Vista: Poems by Anni Liu

Cover of Border Vista: Poems by Anni Liu

Border Vista: Poems

By: Anni Liu

4.18

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Border Vista intimately narrates the experience of being undocumented, or precariously documented, …

If you liked the poetry plot in Border Vista: Poems by Anni Liu , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson, Stesichorus

1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

Similar categories in Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Cover of Counting Descent by Clint   Smith

2. Counting Descent

By: Clint Smith

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to com… read more

Similar categories in Clint Smith's Counting Descent book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

3. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

By: Arlie Russell Hochschild

3.77

Format: 300 pages,

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-prov… read more

Similar categories in Arlie Russell Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

4. Rose

By: Li-Young Lee , Gerald Stern

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this outstanding first book of poems, Lee is unafraid to show emotion, especially when writing a… read more

Similar categories in Li-Young Lee's Rose book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

5. Dictee

By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more

Similar categories in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

Cover of Splinters by Leslie Jamison

6. 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

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

Cover of frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss

7. 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 Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
"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

Cover of Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

8. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

By: Jenny Odell

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more

Similar categories in Jenny Odell's Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"

-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Cover of Obit by Victoria Chang

9. Obit

By: Victoria Chang

4.27

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Chang's Obit book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • asian literature
  • poetry
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

Cover of The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

10. 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 Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • asian literature
  • poetry
"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

Cover of The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon

11. 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 Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
"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

Cover of Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo

12. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

Similar categories in Safia Elhillo's Girls That Never Die: Poems book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

Cover of I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes

13. 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 Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of From From: Poems by Monica Youn

14. 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 Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones

15. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

Similar categories in Saeed Jones's Alive At The End Of The World book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

Cover of The Carrying by Ada Limon

16. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Carrying book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

Cover of Above Ground by Clint   Smith

17. 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

Similar categories in Clint Smith's Above Ground book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Modern Poetry: Poems by Diane Seuss

18. 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 Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang

19. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Chang's The Trees Witness Everything book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • asian literature
  • poetry
Cover of Couplets by Maggie Millner

20. 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 Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
"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

Cover of Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

21. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

Cover of Judas Goat: Poems by Gabrielle Bates

22. 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 Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Mothman Apologia by Robert Wood Lynn

23. Mothman Apologia

By: Robert Wood Lynn

4.52

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and comi… read more

Similar categories in Robert Wood Lynn's Mothman Apologia book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Lot by Bryan Washington

24. Lot

By: Bryan Washington

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, em… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Washington's Lot book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

"Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks."

-Bryan Washington, Lot

"She read beautifully, deeply. I don't know how else to describe it. Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with …"

-Bryan Washington, Lot

Cover of Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

25. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

Similar categories in Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Poukahangatus: Poems by Tayi Tibble

26. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

Similar categories in Tayi Tibble's Poukahangatus: Poems book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Border Vista: Poems by Anni Liu

27. Border Vista: Poems

By: Anni Liu

4.18

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Border Vista intimately narrates the experience of being undocumented, or precariously documented, … read more

Similar categories in Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • asian literature
  • poetry
Cover of Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 170) by Tawanda Mulalu

28. Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 170)

By: Tawanda Mulalu

3.94

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die… read more

Similar categories in Tawanda Mulalu's Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 170) book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return by C.A.  Conrad

29. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

By: C.A. Conrad

4.40

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Following their book AMANDA Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Priz… read more

Similar categories in C.A. Conrad's Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of All Heathens by Marianne Chan

30. All Heathens

By: Marianne Chan

4.45

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

All Heathens is a declaration of ownership―of bodies, of histories, of time. Revisiting Magellan’s … read more

Similar categories in Marianne Chan's All Heathens book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • asian literature
  • poetry
Cover of Good Dress by Brittany Rogers

31. Good Dress

By: Brittany Rogers

4.59

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Following the tradition of Nikki Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Good Dress documents t… read more

Similar categories in Brittany Rogers's Good Dress book and Anni Liu's Border Vista: Poems

  • poetry

5 Top asian literature books like Border Vista: Poems by Anni Liu

Transform Your Habits

Obit

Victoria Chang

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Trees Witness Everything

Victoria Chang

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Border Vista: Poems

Anni Liu

4.18

View all the books

28 must-read poetry books like Mothman Apologia by Robert Wood Lynn

Transform Your Habits

Crush

Richard Siken

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.