7 Top poetry books like The Tigers, They Let Me by Anis Mojgani

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The Tigers, They Let Me

By: Anis Mojgani

4.36

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

In his sixth poetry collection, Anis Mojgani’s poems travel closer to what his heart yearns a rebo…

If you liked the poetry plot in The Tigers, They Let Me by Anis Mojgani , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Fox 8

By: George Saunders

4.12

Format: 21 pages, ebook

A darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the enviro… read more

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"Now all these happy sites and sounds seem like triks. Now it seems like the gud times are mere lee smoke that, upon blowing away, here is the reel life, which is: rok hats, kikking, stomping."

-George Saunders, Fox 8

"You may have herd the Yuman frase, What are frends for? Well, I will tell you. Frends are for, when your hole Groop terns its baks on you, here comes your frend, Fox 7, of who I spoke of erlyer, as b…"

-George Saunders, Fox 8

"One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing sound. Turns out, what that sound is, was: the Yuman voice, making werds. T…"

-George Saunders, Fox 8

"Every minit with no kikking and stomping now seems like not a real minit. Do you get what I mean? It is like some frend who preveusly was nise suden lee says some crool thing and does this nip on you…"

-George Saunders, Fox 8

2. 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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3. Near to the Wild Heart

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more

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"What does it feel like to have a girl?"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."

-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

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4. 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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5. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

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"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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6. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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7. All Down Darkness Wide

By: Seán Hewitt

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more

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  • poetry
"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"

-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide

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8. 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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9. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • poetry
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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10. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

By: Alexa Hagerty

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more

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11. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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12. How We Live Is How We Die

By: Pema Chodron

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more

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13. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

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14. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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15. How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

By: Mia Birdsong

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection After almost every presentation activist a… read more

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16. Old Enough

By: Haley Jakobson

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more

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17. Mostly Dead Things

By: Kristen Arnett

3.38

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has com… read more

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"Too much feeling in his body to handle anything appropriately."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"The best way to get through anything at home is to just stay at work."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"Love was a thing that needed constant care. Our intimacy was an uprooted plant, shriveled and withered."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

"I'd hated that because it didn't feel how I expected romance to feel: stressful and kind of blood-soaked, a constant power struggle."

-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

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18. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

By: Schuyler Bailar

4.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more

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19. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

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20. Graveyard Shift

By: M.L. Rio

3.49

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more

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21. The Tigers, They Let Me

By: Anis Mojgani

4.36

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

In his sixth poetry collection, Anis Mojgani’s poems travel closer to what his heart yearns a rebo… read more

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8 must-read adult books like He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar

Transform Your Habits

Gender Euphoria

Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Transform Your Habits

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Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

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Elliot Page

3.75

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Curtis Chin

3.80

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