18 best-selling poetry books like Landlock X: Poems by Sarah Audsley

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Landlock X: Poems

By: Sarah Audsley

4.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Sarah Audsley’s debut poetry collection, Landlock X , joins a growing body of adoptee poetics. By e…

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1. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

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"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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2. The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel

By: Patti Laboucane-Benson , Kelly Mellings

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In this important graphic novel, two Aboriginal brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gan… read more

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3. Bird by Bird

By: Anne Lamott

4.24

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more

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"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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4. The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant

By: Dan Savage

3.50

Format: 304 pages,

Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than … read more

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5. When My Brother Was an Aztec

By: Natalie Díaz

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more

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6. Lost Found: The Adoption Experience

By: Betty Jean Lifton

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Rich in insight and compassion, Lost and Foundis an eloquent exploration of the psychological issue… read more

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7. Palimpsest

By: Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom

4.00

Format: 300 pages,

Lisa ar adopterad fran Korea. Som de flesta undrar hon om sin bakgrund, sarskilt nar hon sjalv skaf… read more

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8. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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9. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

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10. The Book of Delights: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.16

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more

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  • poetry
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

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11. The Water Dancer

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.06

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. Young Hiram Walker was bo… read more

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"...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

"It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

"The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

"And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

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12. Any Other Family

By: Eleanor Brown

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more

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"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

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13. The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

By: Shannon Gibney

3.87

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often sur… read more

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14. 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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"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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15. Have You Been Long Enough At Table

By: Leslie Sainz

4.27

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Marvelous.”―Terrance Hayes Taking its title from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea , Leslie Sain… read more

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Cover of The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

16. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

By: Audre Lorde

4.62

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indel… read more

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"Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself - a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - …"

-Audre Lorde, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

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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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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. Fixer: Poems

By: Edgar Kunz

4.20

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edg… read more

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  • poetry
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20. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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21. Amanda Paradise

By: C.A. Conrad

4.26

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems in… read more

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22. Essential Ruth Stone

By: Ruth Stone

4.48

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Expertly and sensitively selected by her granddaughter Bianca, The Essential Ruth Stone bears witne… read more

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Cover of Landlock X: Poems by Sarah Audsley

23. Landlock X: Poems

By: Sarah Audsley

4.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Sarah Audsley’s debut poetry collection, Landlock X , joins a growing body of adoptee poetics. By e… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination by Carl Phillips

24. The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination

By: Carl Phillips

4.02

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Carl Phillips's invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebra… read more

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25. ballast

By: Quenton Baker

4.69

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to vie… read more

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Cover of Story of a Poem by Matthew Zapruder

26. Story of a Poem

By: Matthew Zapruder

4.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

" Story of a Poem  is the luminous, lyrical meditation on wringing beauty from suffering and air, t… read more

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Cover of The Most by Jessica  Anthony

27. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

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28. Does the Earth

By: Meg Reynolds

4.77

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Meg Reynolds is a poet, artist, and teacher from New England. As an instructor in writing and human… read more

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Cover of GHOST :: SEEDS: Poems by Sebastian Merrill

29. GHOST :: SEEDS: Poems

By: Sebastian Merrill

4.70

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Winner of The 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn Set on a remote island on… read more

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Cover of Loss and Its Antonym by Alison Prine

30. Loss and Its Antonym

By: Alison Prine

4.50

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

None read more

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31. We Sailed on the Lake

By: Bill Carty

4.19

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Following up his The Believer Book Award nominated debut collection Huge Cloudy, Bill Carty's secon… read more

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  • poetry

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