12 Best poetry books like Room Swept Home (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Remica Bingham-Risher

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Room Swept Home (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Remica Bingham-Risher

4.83

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Intimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineage Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously…

If you liked the poetry plot in Room Swept Home (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Remica Bingham-Risher , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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2. The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems

By: Molly McCully Brown

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harrowing poems from a dark corner of American history by the winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky Fir… read more

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3. Ordinary Beast

By: Nicole Sealey

4.36

Format: 39 pages, ebook

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF … read more

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4. The Darkest Child

By: Delores Phillips

3.97

Format: None pages,

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5. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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6. Black Girl, Call Home

By: Jasmine Mans

4.44

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, a… read more

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"I know grace and mercy was raised by the same single mother."

-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

"Are women labeled crazy when you feel like their rage outweighs the evidence of their pain?"

-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

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7. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

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"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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8. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)

By: Rio Cortez

4.02

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more

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9. The Chosen and the Beautiful

By: Nghi Vo

3.55

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s Ame… read more

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"It was after midnight with that tired charm that all parties on the downturn acquire."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He wanted something agreeable, something sweeter around the edges, but I was never very good at sweet."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He called me careless because he didn't have the words to sort out how jealous he was of my money and my freedom and how very few people in the world could act as I did."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"You weren't meant to look at people the way that Lieutenant Gatsby looked at Daisy Fay. You couldn't peel your skin back and show them how your heart had gone up in flames, how nothing that had come …"

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

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10. A Snake Falls to Earth

By: Darcie Little Badger

3.95

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still … read more

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"Hey Daysona!"

-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

"And their voices had a keenly musical quality. It wasn't that the animal people barked out literal instrumental notes or sand when they spoke. Rather, their words ignited emotional responses Nina had…"

-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

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11. The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties (Aunties, #3)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.54

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime fo… read more

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12. The American Queen

By: Vanessa Miller

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more

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13. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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14. Acts of Forgiveness

By: Maura Cheeks

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more

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"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

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15. Swift River

By: Essie J. Chambers

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more

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"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."

-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River

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16. When I Think of You

By: Myah Ariel

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In this sweeping second chance romance from debut author Myah Ariel, the unexpected spark of two fo… read more

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17. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

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18. Here After

By: Amy Lin

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more

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19. Redwood Court

By: DeLana R.A. Dameron

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more

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20. What Noise Against the Cane (Volume 115) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

By: Desiree C. Bailey

4.41

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, this Yale Series of Younger Poets volume is a… read more

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21. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

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22. All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance

By: EbonyJanice Moore

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?” Hip Hop… read more

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23. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

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24. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"

By: Emily Raboteau

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more

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25. God Themselves

By: Jae Nichelle

4.09

Format: None pages, None

Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern churc… read more

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26. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

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27. Bitter and Sweet

By: Rhonda McKnight

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Two sisters at a crossroad in life find the answers to their problems in the lessons from the past.… read more

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28. Room Swept Home (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Remica Bingham-Risher

4.83

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Intimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineage Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously… read more

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Cover of Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen

29. Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change

By: Ben Austen

4.36

Format: None pages, None

Author of HIGH-RISERS Ben Austen's CORRECTION: PAROLE AND AMERICAN JUSTICE, an exploration of the U… read more

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30. The Collection Plate: Poems

By: Kendra Allen

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice  Looping exultantly … read more

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31. Pretty: A Memoir

By: KB Brookins

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir ab… read more

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17 Top audiobook books like Golden Ax (Penguin Poets) by Rio Cortez

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Girls That Never Die: Poems

Safia Elhillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

Paul Tran

3.87

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