12 best-selling poetry books like Afterrimages (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Joan Retallack

Cover of Afterrimages (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Joan Retallack

Afterrimages (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Joan Retallack

4.45

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Retallack's book draws readers into a meditative experience of time, space and language. Joan Reta…

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Cover of The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank, Thomas A. Vogler

1. The Bridge

By: Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler

4.08

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America. B… read more

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"O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God."

-Hart Crane, The Bridge

"O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits The agile precincts of the lark’s return; Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing In single chrysalis the many twain — Of stars Thou art the stitch and…"

-Hart Crane, The Bridge

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2. Radi Os

By: Ronald Johnson

4.16

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Poetry. First published in 1977, Ronald Johnson's RADI OS revises the first four books of Paradise … read more

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Cover of The Collected Poems, 1975-2005 by Robert Creeley

3. The Collected Poems, 1975-2005

By: Robert Creeley

4.59

Format: 677 pages, Hardcover

This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American p… read more

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Cover of In Time’s Rift (Im Zeitspalt) by Ernst Meister, Graham Foust, Samuel Frederick

4. In Time’s Rift (Im Zeitspalt)

By: Ernst Meister , Graham Foust , Samuel Frederick

4.39

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

"[Meister's] enviable combination of lyrical talent and existential preoccupation . . . is not a pe… read more

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Cover of Sens-Plastique by Malcolm de Chazal, Irving Weiss

5. Sens-Plastique

By: Malcolm de Chazal , Irving Weiss

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

First published in de Chazal's native Mauritius in 1947, Sens-Plastique, consisting of hundreds of … read more

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6. Of Being Numerous

By: George Oppen

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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Cover of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings by Daniil Kharms, Matvei Yankelevich

7. Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings

By: Daniil Kharms , Matvei Yankelevich

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but… read more

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8. “A”

By: Louis Zukofsky

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Louis Zukofsky's most important poetic work now returns to print in a new softcover edition. 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. The Opening of the Field: Poetry

By: Robert Duncan

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Speaking of his own work, Robert Duncan (1919-1987) said: "I make poetry as other men make war or m… read more

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11. My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry

By: Kevin Killian , Peter Gizzi , Jack Spicer

3.95

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers an… read more

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12. Houseboat Days

By: John Ashbery

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This reissue of a book of thirty-nine poems, first collected in 1977, reminds us of Ashbery's aston… read more

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13. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Yvette Siegert

3.28

Format: 404 pages, ebook

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasu… read more

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14. The Sonnets

By: Ted Berrigan , Alice Notley

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1964, The Sonnetsby Ted Berrigan is considered by many to be his most impor… read more

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15. Revolutionary Letters

By: Diane di Prima

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first of these poems were written during the active days of the late 1960s, and published by th… read more

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16. The Tunnel: Selected Poems

By: Russell Edson

4.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

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17. 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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18. That This

By: Susan Howe , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"What treasures of knowledge we cluster around." That Thisis a collection in three pieces. "Disappe… read more

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19. Collected Works

By: Lorine Niedecker , None

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

"The Brontes had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk … read more

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20. Purgatory

By: Raúl Zurita , None

3.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Raul Zurita's "Purgatory, " a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical,… read more

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21. Be With

By: Forrest Gander

3.80

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Publisher… read more

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"You find yourself in another world you weren’t looking for where what you see is that you have always been the wolves at the door. Left ajar, gaping, your own door."

-Forrest Gander, Be With

"The break-hard determination to be a good person, what happened to that? How is it true I have to go now? She's lost my name, but the occasion of my presence begs more. Who is my mother now I am unsp…"

-Forrest Gander, Be With

"At which point my grief-sounds ricocheted outside of language. Something like a drifting swarm of bees. At which point in the tetric silence that followed I was swarmed by those bees and lost conscio…"

-Forrest Gander, Be With

"At which point I grew old and it was like ripping open the beehive with my hands again. At which point I conceived a realm more real than life. At which point there was at least some possibility. Som…"

-Forrest Gander, Be With

Cover of Afterrimages (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Joan Retallack

22. Afterrimages (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Joan Retallack

4.45

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Retallack's book draws readers into a meditative experience of time, space and language. Joan Reta… read more

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Cover of Be Recorder: Poems by Carmen Giménez

23. Be Recorder: Poems

By: Carmen Giménez

3.95

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Carmen Giménez Smith dares to demand renewal for a world made unrecognizable Be Recorder offers … read more

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Cover of Sheep Machine by Vi Khi Nao

24. Sheep Machine

By: Vi Khi Nao

4.38

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Sheep Machine is a textual inscape, a poetically painted nonfictional pasture where mechanical viol… read more

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13 best-selling adult books like Be Recorder: Poems by Carmen Giménez

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the black maria (American Poets Continuum)

Aracelis Girmay

4.38

Transform Your Habits

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

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Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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