12 Top poetry books like A History of Kindness by Linda Hogan

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A History of Kindness

By: Linda Hogan

4.21

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Poems from Linda Hogan explore new and old ways of experiencing the vagaries of the body and existi…

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1. The Door

By: Margaret Atwood , Phoebe Larmore

3.82

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The Door, Margaret Atwood’s first book of poetry since her award-winning Morning in the Burned Hous… read more

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  • poetry
"In ten years, you'll be on a stamp / where anyone at all can lick you."

-Margaret Atwood, The Door

"It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam."

-Margaret Atwood, The Door

"I've cut myself off. I can feel the place where I used o be attached. It's raw, as when you grate your finger. It's a shredded mess of images. It hurts. But where exactly on me is this torn-off stem?…"

-Margaret Atwood, The Door

"Heart Some people sell their blood. You sell your heart. It was either that or the soul. The hard part is getting the damn thing out. A kind of twisting motion, like shucking an oyster, your spine a …"

-Margaret Atwood, The Door

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2. Like a Beggar

By: Ellen Bass

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 Featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac "Ellen Bass's new poetr… read more

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  • poetry
"the dolphins stitch sky to sea."

-Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar

"It's a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little."

-Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar

"This choreography of ruin, the world breaking like glass under a microscope, the way it doesn’t crack all at once, but spreads out from the damaged cavities. Still for a moment it all recedes. The ba…"

-Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar

" When You Return Fallen leaves will climb back into trees. Shards of the shattered vase will rise and reassemble on the table. Plastic raincoats will refold into their flat envelopes. The egg, bald y…"

-Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar

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3. The Art of Description: World into Word

By: Mark Doty

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see," Mark Doty begins. "But try to find words for … read more

Similar categories in Mark Doty's The Art of Description: World into Word book and Linda Hogan's A History of Kindness

  • poetry
  • nonfiction

4. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials, #3)

By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Jason DeAntonis

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The third title in Parallax's Mindfulness Essentials Seriesof how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nha… read more

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5. What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems

By: Kim Addonizio

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post. read more

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6. The Waste Land and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more

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7. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

By: Karen Abbott

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzl… read more

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8. Only Good Enemies (Galactic Bonds, #2)

By: Jennifer Estep

4.15

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

A WOMAN ON A MISSION . . . My name is Vesper Quill. I used to be a lowly lab rat, toiling away … read more

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9. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • native american
  • indigenous
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Cover of The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3) by Amanda Lovelace

10. The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.68

Format: 210 pages, ebook

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the m… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Lovelace's The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3) book and Linda Hogan's A History of Kindness

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"at this point, staying with you is nothing more than muscle memory."

-Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)

"When our villains win, do not fret, just rewrite the story. - mother knows best II"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)

"becoming your own savior sometimes means knowing when you need to ask for help. - therapy session no. 1"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)

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11. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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12. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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13. Only Hard Problems (Galactic Bonds, #3)

By: Jennifer Estep

3.83

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Estep continues her Galactic Bonds series with a new, a… read more

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14. I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

By: Madeline Pendleton

4.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her j… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Pendleton's I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money book and Linda Hogan's A History of Kindness

  • nonfiction
"Don't listen if anyone ever tells you it's a dog-eat-dog world. Dogs are pack animals. We're stronger together."

-Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

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15. Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories

By: Lore Segal

3.21

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American … read more

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16. Poet Warrior: A Memoir

By: Joy Harjo

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this co… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
"Our physical living is held together by plant sacrifice. We eat, wear, and are sheltered by plants and plant material. Nearly all of our medicines are plant-derived. We need to take time with them, g…"

-Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir

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17. The Kissing of Kissing

By: Hannah Emerson

3.77

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse—a literary series written and cur… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems by Dorianne Laux

18. Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems

By: Dorianne Laux

4.39

Format: 167 pages, Hardcover

Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemp… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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19. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

By: torrin a. greathouse

4.42

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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20. A History of Kindness

By: Linda Hogan

4.21

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Poems from Linda Hogan explore new and old ways of experiencing the vagaries of the body and existi… read more

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  • poetry
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • earth
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21. Tesoro

By: Yesika Salgado

4.44

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

Tesoro is a story of family, survival, and the formative power of the women in Salgado’s life. It i… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction

10 Best nonfiction books like A History of Kindness by Linda Hogan

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Description: World into Word

Mark Doty

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)

Amanda Lovelace

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Winter Recipes from the Collective

Louise Glück

3.99

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

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Ross Gay

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Electric Arches

Eve L. Ewing

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

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