If you liked the poetry plot in Modus by Conchitina R. Cruz , here is a list of 15 books like this:
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
2. 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
3. Things We Lost in the Fire
By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell
4.06
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more
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"El problema es que no nos creen."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
4. A Breath of Life
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Johnny Lorenz
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creati… read more
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- poetry
5. 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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6. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
7. Shall we be kind and suffer each other
By: Mark Anthony Cayanan
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
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8. The El Bimbo Variations
By: Adam David , None
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
To write ninety-nine versions of a single line sounds like the idle boast of a literary geek in res… read more
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10. 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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- 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
11. 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.
12. Exteriors
By: Annie Ernaux
3.57
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more
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13. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
By: Maggie Nelson
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more
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"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
14. Amigo Warfare
By: Eric Gamalinda
3.83
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Eric Gamalinda's Amigo Warfare is a stunning meditation on identity and the ways we connect with ou… read more
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"I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mine It will be a holiday of the senses"-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare
"Fuck words, nothing spoken comprehends the defiantly ephemeral. I take my incompleteness with the rest, an exile in any language."-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare
"I would like to write a suicide note in three and a half languages and travel south on a Thursday towards some form of life outside of earth"-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare
"My angels are jellyfish, electric, nearly invisible, armed with poisoned harpoons. My archangels are yellow tang. They feed on sunlight. They speak through color. Anything in their paths turns blind."-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare
15. Insurrecto
By: Gina Apostol
3.52
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present a… read more
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"It is their country, sergeant. You only hold the keys."-Gina Apostol, Insurrecto
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18. 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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19. 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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20. Except You Enthrall Me
By: Mark Anthony Cayanan
4.12
Format: 73 pages, Paperback
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21. Maybe Something
By: Isabela Banzon
4.21
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
These poems are a study of emotions, a subtle symphonic venturing into the themes of love and loss.… read more
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24. The Highest Hiding Place: Poems
By: Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
4.14
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
Reading Ypil is meeting oneself in memory, that of the poet’s and one’s own, and in that encounter,… read more
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25. When the World Ended I Was Thinking about the Forest
By: Glenn Diaz
4.27
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
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26. Unbecoming
By: Angeli Lacson
4.44
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
In a series of brief notes, Unbecoming explores questions of loss, illness, pain, and disability. I… read more
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27. Zero Gravity
By: Eric Gamalinda
4.33
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
"Like the earth on its silver axis," Eric Gamalinda's poems spin into a "light that is our consolat… read more
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28. 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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29. Burning Houses
By: Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
4.00
Format: 61 pages, Paperback
Canon’s the unsaid touchstone here: remixed, crisscrossed, shattered but lived with. Tradition is n… read more
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30. 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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31. The Elegant Ghost: Poems
By: Carlomar Arcangel Daoana
3.50
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
In The Elegant Ghost, his fifth poetry collection, Carlomar Arcangel Daoana affirms his faith in th… read more
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