22 best-selling poetry books like Fruit (Volume 1) (Wisconsin Poetry Series) by Bruce Snider

Cover of Fruit (Volume 1) (Wisconsin Poetry Series) by Bruce Snider

Fruit (Volume 1) (Wisconsin Poetry Series)

By: Bruce Snider

4.62

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Bruce Snider’s third poetry collection grapples with what it means to be childless in a world obses…

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

By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more

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"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

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2. Revising the Storm

By: Dorianne Laux , Geffrey Davis

4.47

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This debut collection by Cave Canem fellow Geffrey Davis burrows under the surface of gender, addic… read more

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"Alone, I rifle streamers through pockets deep enough to hold fish large as memory. With others, I will wade waist-deep all day, for the small paradise of watching someone run their fingers along the …"

-Dorianne Laux, Revising the Storm

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3. Touch: Poems

By: Henri Cole

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Hardcover

Henri Cole’s last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, wr… read more

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4. Ruin

By: Cynthia Cruz

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Reader, take heed: These are no ordinary poems about childhood. In a series of secular prayers, Cyn… read more

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5. Faithful and Virtuous Night

By: Louise Glück

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… 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. The Country Between Us

By: Carolyn Forché

4.67

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The book opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where Forche worked as a journalist and wa… read more

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8. Whereas

By: Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… 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 Game of Boxes: Poems

By: Catherine Barnett

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The second collection by Catherine Barnett, whose "poems are scrupulously restrained and beautifull… read more

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11. Torn

By: None

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In Torn, C. Dale Young continues his earnest investigations into the human, depicted as both spirit… read more

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12. Forest Primeval

By: Vievee Francis

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Another Anti-Pastoral," the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail.… read more

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13. War of the Foxes

By: Richard Siken

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more

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14. Stag's Leap: Poems

By: Sharon Olds

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more

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15. The Book of Medicines

By: Linda Hogan

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

A collection of Native American poetry. read more

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16. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

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17. The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: David Lehman

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry , “a ‘best’ antho… read more

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18. 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

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"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

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19. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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20. 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

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Cover of My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips

21. My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

By: Carl Phillips

4.45

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperat… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

22. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

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"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

Cover of The Court of No Record: Poems by Jenny Molberg

23. The Court of No Record: Poems

By: Jenny Molberg

4.65

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Jenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record , serves as both evidence and te… read more

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Cover of Sex Depression Animals: Poems (Journal CBWheeler Poetry Prize) by Mag Gabbert

24. Sex Depression Animals: Poems (Journal CBWheeler Poetry Prize)

By: Mag Gabbert

4.54

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

In SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery, insistent, and resistant te… read more

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Cover of Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems by José Hernández Díaz

25. Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems

By: José Hernández Díaz

4.60

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a risi… read more

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Cover of Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips

26. Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A new collection of poems from one of America’s most e… read more

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Cover of Water I Won't Touch by Kayleb Rae Candrilli

27. Water I Won't Touch

By: Kayleb Rae Candrilli

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won’t Touch is a life raft and a self-portr… read more

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Cover of Fruit (Volume 1) (Wisconsin Poetry Series) by Bruce Snider

28. Fruit (Volume 1) (Wisconsin Poetry Series)

By: Bruce Snider

4.62

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Bruce Snider’s third poetry collection grapples with what it means to be childless in a world obses… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Be Recorder: Poems by Carmen Giménez

29. 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 Divine Ratios: Poems by Jacqueline Osherow

30. Divine Ratios: Poems

By: Jacqueline Osherow

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The reach of is global, ranging from Tang Dynasty China and the Florentine Renaissance to contempor… read more

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Cover of Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna

31. Burning Like Her Own Planet

By: Vandana Khanna

4.13

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Against the backdrop of iconic, ancient Hindu texts, Burning Like Her Own Planet reimagines the liv… read more

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

Transform Your Habits

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

Transform Your Habits

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Transform Your Habits

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

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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