16 best-selling poetry books like Tonight We Slurp in Color by Andrea V. Tubig

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Tonight We Slurp in Color

By: Andrea V. Tubig

4.41

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

From Tonight We Slurp in Color's cover: "Tonight We Slurp in Color delights in its desire to dis…

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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Joan Didion

4.19

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more

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"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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2. The Proxy Eros

By: Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta

4.52

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

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3. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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4. Dark Hours

By: Conchitina R. Cruz

4.26

Format: 68 pages,

“At this historical moment when the issue of how to respond to suffering is so fraught as to leave … read more

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  • poetry
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5. Confessions of a Mask

By: Yukio Mishima

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more

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6. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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7. There is no emergency

By: Conchitina R. Cruz

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

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8. Black Swans

By: Eve Babitz

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In nine stories that look back on a decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican, B… read more

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9. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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10. Dead Stars

By: None

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Unknown Binding

This is the 1925 short story that gave birth to modern Philippine writing in English. read more

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11. House of Incest

By: Anaïs Nin , None

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The genesis of House of Incestwas in the dream. The keeping of dreams was an important part of tha… read more

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12. The Hour of the Star

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more

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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

13. Regarding the Pain of Others

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more

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14. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

15. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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16. 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

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  • 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

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17. Heaven

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-y… read more

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"Karena kau selalu dilukai, kau sungguh-sungguh memahami seperti apakah orang terluka."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"The more I looked at it, the less it seemed like something for a house. More like a tiny gravestone."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"You think about how other people feel. You're so kind. It makes sense. Because we're always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"People are always dying. It's a perfect truth. No matter how we live our lives, we all die, sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

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18. 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

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  • 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

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19. 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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20. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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21. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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22. The Quiet Ones

By: Glenn Diaz

3.89

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

During a regular shift at the call center, Alvin Estrada discovers a way to embezzle money from the… read more

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"All that we did in this world was to salvage scraps of freedom."

-Glenn Diaz, The Quiet Ones

"Learning English was like lifting a veil, one which would be, he'd learn, impossible to fully restore."

-Glenn Diaz, The Quiet Ones

"She gave it a shot' was how she planned to euphemize the five-year detour: to her therapist, to curious friends, to herself. Had she been younger, there would have been wailing for the lost years, bu…"

-Glenn Diaz, The Quiet Ones

"A few moments into the ride, I saw Reynaldo's figure down the road, walking erectly, holding something. Seeing him there, amid the banana trees and huts and roadside stands with petrol in Coke bottle…"

-Glenn Diaz, The Quiet Ones

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23. Space Struck

By: Paige Lewis

4.07

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more

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"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

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24. elsewhere held and lingered

By: Conchitina R. Cruz

4.52

Format: 81 pages, None

elsewhere held and lingered is Conchitina Cruz’s third book, following Disappear (High Chair, 2004)… read more

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25. Tonight We Slurp in Color

By: Andrea V. Tubig

4.41

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

From Tonight We Slurp in Color's cover: "Tonight We Slurp in Color delights in its desire to dis… read more

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26. Lola Coqueta

By: Isabela Banzon

4.06

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

Direct rhythms, a wry yet personal approach to experience and memory, oblique with evasion, and ani… read more

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  • poetry
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27. Modus

By: Conchitina R. Cruz

3.64

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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28. Narcissus

By: Mark Anthony Cayanan

4.38

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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Cover of When the World Ended I Was Thinking about the Forest by Glenn Diaz

29. When the World Ended I Was Thinking about the Forest

By: Glenn Diaz

4.27

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

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30. Pics Or it Didn't Happen and Actual Stories

By: Anna Felicia C. Sanchez

3.75

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Animated classroom discussions, glass jars breaking in a laboratory, a daughter’s visit to the hosp… read more

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31. Hush Harbor

By: Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta

3.42

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Katigbak-Lacuesta’s work investigates the fraught love and power dynamics between men and women, co… read more

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5 Top contemporary books like Narcissus by Mark Anthony Cayanan

Transform Your Habits

Bluets

Maggie Nelson

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Minor Detail

Adania Shibli

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

Eve Babitz

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Insurrecto

Gina Apostol

3.52

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