10 must-read poetry books like A Hummock in the Malookas by Matthew Rohrer

Cover of A Hummock in the Malookas by Matthew Rohrer

A Hummock in the Malookas

By: Matthew Rohrer

4.25

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Exploring quirky perspectives on truth, a critically acclaimed collection of poetry explores a land…

If you liked the poetry plot in A Hummock in the Malookas by Matthew Rohrer , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Trances of the Blast by Mary Ruefle

1. Trances of the Blast

By: Mary Ruefle

4.21

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

"One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will … read more

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"My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it."

-Mary Ruefle, Trances of the Blast

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2. 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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3. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • poetry
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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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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  • poetry
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5. 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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6. Poemland

By: Chelsey Minnis

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, cont… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate

7. Return to the City of White Donkeys

By: James Tate

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate co… read more

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  • poetry
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8. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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9. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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  • poetry

10. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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11. The Hour of the Star

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more

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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

12. 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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13. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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14. Dunce

By: Mary Ruefle

3.94

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Through her many projects across numerous genres, Mary Ruefle has proven herself a singular artist,… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of A Hummock in the Malookas by Matthew Rohrer

15. A Hummock in the Malookas

By: Matthew Rohrer

4.25

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Exploring quirky perspectives on truth, a critically acclaimed collection of poetry explores a land… read more

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  • poetry

13 Top fiction books like Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate

Transform Your Habits

The Dead and the Living

Sharon Olds , Judith Henry

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Jesus' Son

Denis Johnson

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Faithful and Virtuous Night

Louise Glück

4.11

Transform Your Habits

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James Tate

3.20

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