24 must-read poetry books like Bimboland by Erin Taylor

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Bimboland

By: Erin Taylor

4.15

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

An astonishing debut poetry collection wrestling with desire, vulnerability, sex work and money fro…

If you liked the poetry plot in Bimboland by Erin Taylor , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

By: Ross Gay

4.25

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more

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  • poetry
"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

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2. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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  • poetry
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3. A Spaniard in the Works

By: John Lennon

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

"It is fascinating of course to climb inside a Beatle's head to see what's going on there, but what… read more

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  • poetry
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4. 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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5. Blue Horses

By: Mary Oliver

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more

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6. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

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7. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Kate Baer returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers… read more

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  • poetry
"I wanted art / poetry was hidden in so much in so many ways"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

"women want to live without fear For thousands of years We were not believed this is what we carry"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

"You were designed to find satisfaction in your excellence Your nature cannot be retrofitted to the male without permanent damage to the original design"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

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8. 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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  • poetry
"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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9. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

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  • poetry
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10. 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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  • poetry
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11. Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

By: Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/T… read more

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12. Dropbear

By: Evelyn Araluen

4.13

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more

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  • poetry
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13. The Crying Book

By: Heather Christle

3.80

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her… read more

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  • poetry
"Tears are a sign of powerlessness, a "woman's weapon." It has been a long war."

-Heather Christle, The Crying Book

"Almost all my understanding is from books...Sometimes it seems there are more pages in me than breaths."

-Heather Christle, The Crying Book

"Some people think of reading poems and stories as a way to practice responding to imagined circumstances, without having to risk dangers of real life."

-Heather Christle, The Crying Book

"They say perhaps we cry when language fails, when words can no longer adequately convey our hurt. When my crying is not wordless enough I beat my head with my fists."

-Heather Christle, The Crying Book

Cover of Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix

14. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

By: Camonghne Felix

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

 When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more

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  • poetry
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

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15. Soft Science

By: Franny Choi

3.93

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more

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  • poetry
"having been hurt before"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"fiended; fell for another"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"it's too late to stop smiling."

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

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16. Brute: Poems

By: Emily Skaja

4.03

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more

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  • poetry
"unfull but full of loathing"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"I know what to do with the dark."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

Cover of A Hundred Lovers: Poems by Richie Hofmann

17. A Hundred Lovers: Poems

By: Richie Hofmann

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly a… read more

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  • poetry
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18. Darryl

By: Jackie Ess

4.03

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western Oregon, a beautiful wife… read more

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"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

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19. Ungeenheden

By: Fine Gråbøl

3.68

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

Ungeenheden er Fine Gråbøls debut. En omsorgsfuld og kritisk roman om en gruppe unge i psykiatrien … read more

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"Our daily routines are our best illusions of new beginnings, a new cycle."

-Fine Gråbøl, Ungeenheden

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20. Content Warning: Everything

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.94

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more

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  • poetry
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21. Closer Baby Closer

By: Savannah Brown

4.18

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding by Ellena Savage

22. Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

By: Ellena Savage

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

‘I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only o… read more

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  • poetry
"Sadness is not always a terrible illness. Sadness is, perhaps, the most honest response to living."

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"I need to manage the unmanageable, to contain, correct and formalise the world, because I need to survive it."

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"Is 'self-care' a neoliberal scam promoting individualistic coping strategies in the absence of broader social obligations or the possibility of radical structural change? (Well, yes, I say to myself …"

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"If there is always a question, and I believe there is, in this case it is this: where is home and what is freedom. The promise we accept is that freedom is the freedom to make ourselves anew, but in …"

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

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23. feeld

By: Jos Charles

4.17

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles’s revolutionary… read more

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  • poetry
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24. Women: A Novella

By: Chloé Caldwell

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair … read more

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"I feel drawn to the word "unmoored" during this time. I look it up a few times a week. I stare at the definition on my computer screen. I love the example sentence Wikipedia uses, which says, Left un…"

-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella

"I become familiar with cold hard grounds. On a Friday night, I drink three too many glasses of wine and I call Finn. She makes no black humor jokes. It is not an erotic mess anymore, like Sabine once…"

-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella

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25. Gay Girl Prayers

By: Emily R. Austin

4.10

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return by C.A.  Conrad

26. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

By: C.A. Conrad

4.40

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Following their book AMANDA Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Priz… read more

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  • poetry
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27. Bimboland

By: Erin Taylor

4.15

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

An astonishing debut poetry collection wrestling with desire, vulnerability, sex work and money fro… read more

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  • poetry
  • sex work
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28. Dress Rehearsals

By: Madison Godfrey

3.98

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binar… read more

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  • poetry
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29. Soft Inheritance

By: Fawn Parker

4.47

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her exceptional poetic debut, Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness, and the open-handed relat… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Worm Food and Bone Sand

By: Caitlin Ellis

4.76

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

"From dust, I come, and to dust, I'll return. Worm food and bone sand, I'll infiltrate the earth as… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Another Woman

By: Hannah Bonner

4.78

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of confessional and lyrical poets like Cynthia Cruz, Linda Gregg, Sylvia Plath, an… read more

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  • poetry

10 Best audiobook books like Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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