5 Top history books like From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Pérez

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From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]

By: Craig Santos Pérez

4.42

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Experimental and visual poems diving into the history and culture of the poet’s homeland, Guam.   …

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1. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

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2. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

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3. She Had Some Horses

By: Joy Harjo

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this powerful collection of poetry, Creek Indian Joy Harjo explores womanhood's most intimate mo… read more

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4. 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
  • 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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5. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

4.18

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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7. 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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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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8. A palavra que resta

By: Stênio Gardel

4.05

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Uma carta guardada por mais de cinquenta anos — e jamais lida. É essa a relíquia que Raimundo leva … read more

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9. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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  • poetry
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11. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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12. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

By: Tessa Hulls

4.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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14. 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

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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15. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

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  • poetry
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. 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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  • poetry
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17. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

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  • poetry
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18. suddenly we

By: Evie Shockley

4.34

Format: 112 pages, Audiobook

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious "we"In her new poet… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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19. 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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  • poetry
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20. Promises of Gold

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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21. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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22. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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23. Tripas: Poems

By: Brandon Som

3.95

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poet… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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24. 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
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25. A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems

By: Mary Jo Bang

3.80

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked… read more

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  • poetry
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26. I hope this reaches her in time

By: R.H. Sin

3.82

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

you have a message from r.h. Sin read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"until next time, talk to you soon… (call ends…)"

-R.H. Sin, I hope this reaches her in time

"the clouds dance around each other like lovers avoiding the truth"

-R.H. Sin, I hope this reaches her in time

"i was the ocean you wanted rivers i was the moon you chased the stars"

-R.H. Sin, I hope this reaches her in time

"you owe it to yourself to give yourself the love that you've misplaced in other"

-R.H. Sin, I hope this reaches her in time

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27. How to Communicate: Poems

By: John Lee Clark

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry A stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBl… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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28. From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]

By: Craig Santos Pérez

4.42

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Experimental and visual poems diving into the history and culture of the poet’s homeland, Guam.   … read more

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  • poetry
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Chrome Valley: Poems

By: Mahogany L. Browne

4.16

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne’s Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"you ain’t had freedom / ’til you climb on bus 62 / & head to the closest mall / for a good seat at the girl fight."

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

"give me my mother’s bone structure / & her gap tooth slaughter / give me her spine—Redbone got a spine for the world."

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

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30. I'm Always so Serious

By: Karisma Price

4.31

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

 " I’m Always so Serious  is brilliant.”   —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for  … read more

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  • poetry
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31. School of Instructions: A Poem

By: Ishion Hutchinson

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during Wor… read more

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