9 Best contemporary books like New Poets of Native Nations by Heid E. Erdrich

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New Poets of Native Nations

By: Heid E. Erdrich

4.42

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

An anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first century New…

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1. American Originality: Essays on Poetry

By: Louise Glück

3.88

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A luminous collection of essays from Louise Glück, winner … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted."

-Louise Glück, American Originality: Essays on Poetry

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2. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

By: Audre Lorde

4.43

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

"These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a blac… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
"I see much better now and my eyes hurt."

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

"Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home."

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

"The Seventh Sense" Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea"

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

"And I knew when I entered her I was high wind in her forests hollow fingers whispering sound honey flowed from the split cup impaled on a lance of tongues on the tips of her breasts on her navel and …"

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

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3. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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4. The Essential Rumi

By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Coleman Barks

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumiincludes a new introduction by Coleman Barks… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction

5. The Painted Drum

By: Louise Erdrich

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New … read more

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6. The Silver Gun (Art Deco Mystery #1)

By: L.A. Chandlar

2.88

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

New York City, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Big Apple is defiantly striving towa… read more

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7. And Still I Rise

By: Maya Angelou

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this inspiring poem, Maya Angelou celebrates the courage of the human spirit over the harshest o… read more

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8. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

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  • anthologies
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9. 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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  • poetry
  • contemporary
"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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10. 葬送のフリーレン 2 [Sōsō no Frieren 2]

By: Kanehito Yamada

4.42

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

魔王を倒した勇者の死後、魔法使いが歩む旅 長生きなエルフの魔法使い・フリーレン。 弟子の魔法使い・フェルンと歩む旅の目的地は、 再び魔王城。勇者たちの魂が眠るとされる地。 … read more

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"They speak not to understand, but to deceive."

-Kanehito Yamada, 葬送のフリーレン 2 [Sōsō no Frieren 2]

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

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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12. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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13. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. 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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  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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15. Goldenrod: Poems

By: Maggie Smith

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

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16. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

By: Laura E. Anderson

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

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17. 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

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  • poetry
  • unfinished
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. by Sy Montgomery

18. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

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19. Shut Up, This Is Serious

By: Carolina Ixta

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that t… read more

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  • contemporary
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20. 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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21. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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22. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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23. We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

By: Eric Garcia

4.14

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doc… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

24. Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

By: Nikita Gill

4.17

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Empowering life lessons from myths and monsters. Wonder at Medusa's potent venom, Circe's fierc… read more

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  • poetry
"When no one aids you, you build your own legs."

-Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

"does a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?"

-Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

"You smell of death. Everything about you is an endless goodbye"

-Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

"The old Gods may be ash and bone now, but in us they rise anew."

-Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

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25. You Don't Have a Shot

By: Racquel Marie

4.38

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A queer YA romance about rival soccer players from author Racquel Marie, perfect for fans of She Dr… read more

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  • contemporary
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26. Embracing Queer Family: Learning to Live Authentically in Our Families and Communities

By: Nia Chiaramonte

4.85

Format: 219 pages, Hardcover

Embrace the Queerness of your family, take ownership of your journey, and use your voice to bring l… read more

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27. The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom

By: Nikita Gill

4.43

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Bestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of poetry a… read more

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  • poetry
"You cannot destroy a family. Even if you try. Even through war. Some part of them always remains."

-Nikita Gill, The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom

"In a cave where everything is fragranced with water, she asks for a daughter instead of praying for a son."

-Nikita Gill, The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom

"Be inconvenient. Raise your hand despite their groans. Voice you opinions. Enter debates. Classrooms are not only boys’ domains."

-Nikita Gill, The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom

"Grandmothers are a gift not to be taken lightly. So many lose them, before they are old enough to know their magic. I am glad my bones were born with this knowledge. She taught me how to become a goo…"

-Nikita Gill, The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom

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28. Out of Focus: My Story of Sexuality, Shame, and Toxic Evangelicalism

By: Amber Cantorna-Wylde

4.41

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

When a mass shooter killed five people in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, grieving people g… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness by Leigh Joseph

29. Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness

By: Leigh Joseph

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Author Leigh Joseph, an ethnobotanist and a member of the Squamish Nation, provides a beautifully i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
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30. New Poets of Native Nations

By: Heid E. Erdrich

4.42

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

An anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first century New… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • unfinished
  • united states
  • anthologies
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • native americans
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31. Words of a Goat Princess

By: Jessie Reyez

4.25

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A moving poetic debut from a talented artist, Words of a Goat Princess is everything you love about… read more

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  • poetry

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Transform Your Habits

American Originality: Essays on Poetry

Louise Glück

3.88

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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

4.43

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Look

Solmaz Sharif

4.16

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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , Coleman Barks

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Aphrodite Made Me Do It

Trista Mateer

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