If you liked the poetry plot in Narcissus by Mark Anthony Cayanan , here is a list of 19 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
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3. Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (Swenson Poetry Award)
By: Luisa A. Igloria
4.45
Format: 70 pages, Hardcover
“When Luisa Igloria cites Epictetus―‘as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and anot… read more
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- poetry
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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- contemporary
6. Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
By: Euripides , Anne Carson
3.95
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Writing with a pitch and heat that gets to the heart of the unforgiving classical world, Carson, a … read more
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7. Else It Was Purely Girls
By: None
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
Angelo V. Suarez' second poetry book. read more
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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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9. 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
10. 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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- contemporary
"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
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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- contemporary
"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. 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
13. 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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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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- poetry
"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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- contemporary
"It is their country, sergeant. You only hold the keys."-Gina Apostol, Insurrecto
16. 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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- poetry
17. 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
18. Tilt Me and I Bend: Poems
By: Ned Parfan
3.61
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
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19. Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous
By: Mark Anthony Cayanan
4.64
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous is a work of wild erudition and rococo elaboration, a collection … read more
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20. 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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23. 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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- poetry
24. The Saints of Streets
By: Luisa A. Igloria
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Luisa A. Igloria’s newest book "The Saints of Streets," hungry ghosts, mullahs, would-be assassi… 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. College Boy: Poems
By: Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
3.30
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
College Boy examines the small assaults and transgressions that take place in the plain settings of… read more
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27. Bago Mo Ako Ipalaot
By: Luna Sicat Cleto
3.75
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
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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. Accidents of Composition
By: Merlinda Bobis
4.00
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Is it the sun a hole sucking in a bird or Icarus about to singe the sun? Which composes which? The … read more
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