20 must-read poetry books like Four in Hand by Alicia Mountain

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Four in Hand

By: Alicia Mountain

4.24

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and exper…

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1. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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2. My Alexandria

By: Mark Doty

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

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3. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

By: Mark Fisher

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more

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4. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more

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5. 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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6. Stay, Illusion: Poems

By: Lucie Brock-Broido

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist Stay, Illusion, the much-anticipated volume of poems by Lucie Brock-B… read more

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7. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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8. Miracle Fruit

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Poetry. As three worlds collide, a mother's Philippines, a father's India and the poet's contempora… read more

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9. 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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10. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

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"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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11. 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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"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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12. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

By: Marisa Meltzer

3.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bombshell exposé that reveals—for the first time—exactly what happened at Glossier, one of Amer… read more

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"Glossier is about much more than aesthetic appearance; it has become a way for people to feel connected to bigger beliefs, to feel like their daily choices are having an impact, and that they are put…"

-Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

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13. 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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14. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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  • poetry
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15. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

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16. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

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  • poetry
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17. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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  • poetry
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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18. Trace Evidence: Poems

By: Charif Shanahan

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more

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Cover of Mothman Apologia by Robert Wood Lynn

19. Mothman Apologia

By: Robert Wood Lynn

4.52

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and comi… read more

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20. Constellation Route

By: Matthew Olzmann

4.31

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American … read more

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21. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive

By: Katie Farris

4.31

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more

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Cover of Floaters: Poems by Martín Espada

22. Floaters: Poems

By: Martín Espada

4.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. … read more

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23. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

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24. Four in Hand

By: Alicia Mountain

4.24

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and exper… read more

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25. Feast

By: Ina Cariño

4.22

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Winner of a 2022 Whiting Award in Poetry Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award At times located… read more

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Cover of Lo (Iowa Poetry Prize) by Melissa  Crowe

26. Lo (Iowa Poetry Prize)

By: Melissa Crowe

4.57

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the wom… read more

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27. Buffalo Girl

By: Jessica Q. Stark

4.33

Format: 126 pages, None

In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother’s fraught immigration to the United Sta… read more

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28. 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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"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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29. Cloud Missives

By: Kenzie Allen

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Each poem examines a mystery. Each poem has its own Indigeneity. Each poem is its own cloud missive… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Long Exposure: Poems by Julia Anna Morrison

30. Long Exposure: Poems

By: Julia Anna Morrison

4.79

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Long Exposure  follows a single mother in the years after her son’s birth as she struggles with pos… read more

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31. Freedom House

By: KB Brookins

4.53

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. … read more

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28 must-read poetry books like Mothman Apologia by Robert Wood Lynn

Transform Your Habits

Crush

Richard Siken

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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