25 must-read poetry books like Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166) by Erika Meitner

Cover of Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166) by Erika Meitner

Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166)

By: Erika Meitner

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir…

If you liked the poetry plot in Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166) by Erika Meitner , here is a list of 25 books like this:

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1. the black maria (American Poets Continuum)

By: Aracelis Girmay

4.38

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Praise for Aracelis "[Girmay's] every loss—she calls them estrangements—is a yearning for connect… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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2. The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

By: Henry James , None

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children ab… read more

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3. Love, an Index

By: Rebecca Lindenberg

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fierce, one-of-a-kind… read more

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  • poetry
"Rebecca Lindenberg thinks of poetry as the practice of overhearing yourself. Rebecca Lindneberg thinks about love. About ribbons unspooling."

-Rebecca Lindenberg, Love, an Index

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4. All of it Singing: New and Selected Poems

By: Linda Gregg

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Worlds out of time still exist. Worlds of achievement out of mind and remembering, just as the po… read more

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  • poetry
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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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  • poetry

6. Small Porcelain Head

By: Allison Benis White

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Out of an urgent need to grasp what it means to lose a loved one to suicide, these poems fixate on … read more

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7. Autopsy

By: None

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Written after the death of his mother, Donte Collins's Autopsy establishes the poet as one of the m… read more

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8. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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9. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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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
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"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

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11. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

By: Paul Tran

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

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12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Pádraig Ó Tuama

13. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

By: Pádraig Ó Tuama

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more

Similar categories in Pádraig Ó Tuama's Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World book and Erika Meitner's Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) by Andrea Gibson

14. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

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15. Dearly

By: Margaret Atwood

3.74

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

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16. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Erika Meitner's Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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17. This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.49

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

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18. The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems

By: Threa Almontaser

4.22

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Harryette MullenBy t… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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19. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

By: Jake Skeets

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men “only touch when they fuck in a backseat.” Its landscap… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami

20. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

By: Laila Lalami

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"White" is seen as the default, the absence of race. ...Whiteness, then, is shrouded in silence. To speak about it openly is to break a taboo."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"From my mother and grandmother, I learned about faith as a private relationship with the cosmic, which did not need to be measured by adherence to strict rules and rituals."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

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21. With My Back to the World: Poems

By: Victoria Chang

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Magic Words: Simple Poetry Prompts That Unlock the Creativity in Everyone by Joseph Fasano

22. The Magic Words: Simple Poetry Prompts That Unlock the Creativity in Everyone

By: Joseph Fasano

4.59

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Discover the joy of expressing what’s inside you, with fill-in-the-blank poems that are sparking a … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Worldly Things (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize) by Michael Kleber-Diggs

23. Worldly Things (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize)

By: Michael Kleber-Diggs

4.65

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

"Sometimes," writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, "ever… read more

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  • poetry
"Here's the deal: structural fatigue eventually causes breakdowns. I am 50 and chaos. My whole body groans."

-Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize)

"Love is history plus desire. Love is dominion. It is supposed to attack you. When you send it out, it stings you back like a slap of cold air."

-Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize)

"My love, I make this to tell you-- you made me right: everything is amplified. Joy doubles, also pain. The endless work of the river, the haze around it."

-Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize)

"America is loving me to death, loving me to death slowly, and I Mainly try not to be disappeared here, knowing she won’t pledge Even tolerance in return. Dear God, I can’t offer allegiance."

-Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize)

Cover of Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166) by Erika Meitner

24. Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166)

By: Erika Meitner

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Erika Meitner's Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166) book and Erika Meitner's Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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25. Removal Acts

By: Erin Marie Lynch

4.42

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Drawing its title from the 1863 Federal Act that banished the Dakota people from their homelands, t… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe

26. New and Selected Poems

By: Marie Howe

4.49

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An indispensable collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Life (Penguin Poets) by Carrie Fountain

27. The Life (Penguin Poets)

By: Carrie Fountain

4.02

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An acclaimed poet deepens her exploration of the domestic in a new collection of playful and wise p… read more

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  • poetry
"There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself"

-Carrie Fountain, The Life (Penguin Poets)

"I want every- thing, I admit. I want yes of course and I want it all the time."

-Carrie Fountain, The Life (Penguin Poets)

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28. All Its Charms

By: Keetje Kuipers

4.36

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A luminous new collection from Keetje Kuipers, All Its Charms is a fearless and transformative reck… read more

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  • poetry
"But if she doesn’t learn nostalgia now, how will I ever teach her regret? I have to get her ready for the future."

-Keetje Kuipers, All Its Charms

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29. Black Ballad

By: Afua Ansong

4.22

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Editors' Selection from the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. For a young Ghanaian girl who tr… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of If Men, Then: Poems by Eliza Griswold

30. If Men, Then: Poems

By: Eliza Griswold

3.41

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wi… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Casual Conversation by Renia White

31. Casual Conversation

By: Renia White

4.15

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

A Blessing the Boats Selection with a Foreword by Aracelis Girmay, Renia White’s debut poetry colle… read more

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  • poetry

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4.11

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