18 best-selling poetry books like Nebraska: Poems by Kwame Dawes

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Nebraska: Poems

By: Kwame Dawes

4.08

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent mos…

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1. Revising the Storm

By: Dorianne Laux , Geffrey Davis

4.47

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This debut collection by Cave Canem fellow Geffrey Davis burrows under the surface of gender, addic… read more

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  • poetry
"Alone, I rifle streamers through pockets deep enough to hold fish large as memory. With others, I will wade waist-deep all day, for the small paradise of watching someone run their fingers along the …"

-Dorianne Laux, Revising the Storm

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2. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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3. X: Poems

By: James Galvin

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"X" is the kiss and betrayal, the embrace, the crucifixion, the mathematical unknown. In his sixth … read more

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  • poetry
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4. Song

By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly

3.82

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent fo… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib

5. The Crown Ain't Worth Much

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

3.69

Format: 192 pages,

The Crown Ain t Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib s first full-length collection, is a sharp and … read more

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Cover of Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

6. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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  • poetry
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7. The Song of the Lark

By: Willa Cather , Doris Grumbach

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young… read more

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8. Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more

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9. My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more

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10. Whereas

By: Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more

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  • poetry
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11. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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12. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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13. O Pioneers!

By: Willa Cather

3.90

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more

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"Things away from home often look better than they are."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

14. The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

By: Bhanu Kapil

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Asian American Studies. THE VERTICAL INTERROGATION OF STRANGERS blends the narratives of th… read more

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15. Inside Out & Back Again

By: Thanhhà Lại

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Hardcover

For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of… read more

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16. Stag's Leap: Poems

By: Sharon Olds

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more

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17. The Waste Land and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more

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18. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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19. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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20. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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  • poetry
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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21. And Yet: Poems

By: Kate Baer

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more

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  • poetry
"Let your life rest on what is already good."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

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22. Little Weirds

By: Jenny Slate

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find… read more

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"If I deny that the root is in me, I will never change."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"I love myself. I think that I am a very top-quality person."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"If I could remember anything, I would remember my belief that my extra love could just be used on myself."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"I was born bucking the idea that I should have to be anywhere that I don’t like or talk to people who make me feel dead or trapped."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

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23. 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
Cover of Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff

24. 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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25. 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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26. Home Is Not a Country

By: Safia Elhillo

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A novel in verse about family, identity, and finding yourself in the most unexpected places. Nim… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang

27. 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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28. Birding with Benefits

By: Sarah T. Dubb

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A divorcee embarks on her “year of yes” and crosses paths with a shy but sensitive birdwatcher who… read more

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29. Nebraska: Poems

By: Kwame Dawes

4.08

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent mos… read more

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  • poetry
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30. The Baby that Ate Cincinnati

By: Matt Mason

4.39

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

The Baby That Ate Cincinnati is a collection of poems about parenthood.  And horror movies.  It’s a… read more

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