26 Best poetry books like 24 Pages and other poems (Wave Books) by Lisa Fishman

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24 Pages and other poems (Wave Books)

By: Lisa Fishman

4.10

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Lisa Fishman’s sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each ot…

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1. The Dead and the Living

By: Sharon Olds , Judith Henry

4.17

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collect… read more

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2. Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series)

By: Sharon Olds

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Poems examine life as a child, a woman, and a mother; death; and our relationship to the world. Thi… read more

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3. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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4. The Difficult Farm

By: Heather Christle

4.27

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

The Difficult Farm is where you’ll find surprising jolts of the sweetest kindness delivered via poe… read more

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5. Thunderbird

By: Dorothea Lasky

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination give… read more

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6. Black Life

By: Dorothea Lasky

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

You are born and it is to a black life Full of abuse and strange things . . . In her second collect… read more

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7. 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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8. Talkativeness

By: Michael Earl Craig

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Talkativenessis yet another uncanny whistling choir in a reflective and engaging world all Craig's … read more

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9. The Cloud Corporation

By: Timothy Donnelly

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The poems of Timothy Donnelly astonish by their inventive intelligence . . . we learn that self-kn… read more

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10. 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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11. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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12. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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13. 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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"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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14. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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15. From From: Poems

By: Monica Youn

4.18

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more

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16. Assembly

By: Natasha Brown

3.84

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more

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"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

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17. The Renunciations: Poems

By: Donika Kelly

4.29

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more

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18. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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19. Best Barbarian: Poems

By: Roger Reeves

4.10

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more

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20. The Book (Wave Books, 110)

By: Mary Ruefle

4.57

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Following the acclaimed Dunce , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s la… read more

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21. The Lights: Poems

By: Ben Lerner

3.84

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more

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22. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

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23. Oculus: Poems

By: Sally Wen Mao

4.18

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

A brilliant second collection by Sally Wen Mao on the violence of the spectacle—starring the film l… read more

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"The sun doesn't set in Lost in Translation, but I will make sure it does here."

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

"Where do you wander, where do you search for this petal that grows from the stone in your chest?"

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

"Every day I try to fight my own brokenness. But once you are forgotten, it's not so bad: a heart broken joins another chorus."

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

"Forgive me if the wind stole the howl from my mouth and whipped it against your windowpanes. When I lived, I wanted to be seen."

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

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24. Eye Level: Poems

By: Jenny Xie

4.14

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New… read more

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"Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill."

-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems

"Like a mule I understand one suffers by the load one chooses"

-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems

"[13] (from "Visual Orders") Look at how I perform for you Look at how you perform for me An eye for an eye is how you and I take on forms in the mind"

-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems

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25. The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: David Lehman

3.49

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry ,… read more

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26. To 2040

By: Jorie Graham

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single wor… read more

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27. Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina

By: Dara Barrois/Dixon

4.07

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Highly anticipated poems from beloved contemporary poet Dara Barrois/Dixon (formerly Dara Wier). … read more

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28. 24 Pages and other poems (Wave Books)

By: Lisa Fishman

4.10

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Lisa Fishman’s sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each ot… read more

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29. Synthetic Jungle: Poems

By: Michael Chang

3.66

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A new poetry collection from award-winning author Michael Chang   A vital breath of life arrives in… read more

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30. Pink Waves

By: Sawako Nakayasu

4.46

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

A poem in conversation with literature and written during a durational performance.   Written in lo… read more

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31. New Life

By: Ana Bozicevic

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

In her latest book,  New Life , Lambda Award–winning poet Ana Božičević writes, “For my birthday I … read more

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23 must-read poetry books like New Life by Ana Bozicevic

Transform Your Habits

Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

Patricia Lockwood

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

3.45

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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