10 best-selling poetry books like My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems by Yi Lei

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My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems

By: Yi Lei

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of China’s most significant contemporary poets, co-translated by former US Poet Laureate Tracy …

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1. Counting Descent

By: Clint Smith

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to com… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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2. A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

By: Arthur Rimbaud , Louise Varèse

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Although he stopped writing at the age of 19, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) possessed the most revolutio… read more

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  • poetry

3. Lighthead

By: Terrance Hayes

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investig… read more

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4. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

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5. The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013

By: Derek Walcott , Glyn Maxwell

3.97

Format: None pages,

A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career "He giv… read more

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6. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

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7. SPY×FAMILY 11

By: Tatsuya Endo

4.54

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

デズモンドの妻・メリンダと親しくなったヨルに負けないよう、「ナカヨシ作戦」に本気になるアーニャ! だが、イーデン校の社会科見学の道中、子供たちは事件に巻き込まれ…!? read more

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8. 30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい 10

By: Yuu Toyota

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

今日、かけがえのない人と結婚します。 結婚式を挙げる約束をした安達と黒沢。しかし、挙式までの道のりは未知の連続で…。そんな時、助けてくれるのは、身の回りにいる大切な人たちだった…!皆に祝福されて、… read more

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9. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Yi Lei's My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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10. 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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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"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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11. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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12. The Flame

By: Leonard Cohen

4.05

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span gene… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"And that was my mistake I didn't kill the snake I gave the snake a break Unbiblical"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"Straighten up, little warrior [...] It's not as though you wasted your life by loving me."

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"the flags from the nation but your absence comes from a terrible sleep under a huge museum Enter the moth holes of my longing"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I’m old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering com…"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

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13. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

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14. Homeland Elegies

By: Ayad Akhtar

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Eleg… read more

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15. 葬送のフリーレン 4 [Sōsō no Frieren 4]

By: Kanehito Yamada

4.43

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

勇者たちとの記憶を繋ぐ後日譚ファンタジー 勇者の死後も生き続けるエルフの魔法使い・フリーレン。 かつて勇者たちと冒険した旅路を、再び辿ります。 昔も今も旅路を彩るのは、 かけ… read more

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"Now is all there is."

-Kanehito Yamada, 葬送のフリーレン 4 [Sōsō no Frieren 4]

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16. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

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  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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17. 葬送のフリーレン 5 [Sōsō no Frieren 5]

By: Kanehito Yamada

4.43

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

魔法使いの歴史を紐解く後日譚ファンタジー 魔王を倒し、歴史に名を残す魔法使い・フリーレン。 魂の眠る地(オレオール)を目指す旅を進む為に、 魔法使い試験を受けることになります。… read more

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"Living means someone knows you and remembers you."

-Kanehito Yamada, 葬送のフリーレン 5 [Sōsō no Frieren 5]

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18. No Land in Sight: Poems

By: Charles Simic

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From one of America's most beloved poets, a piercing new collection reflecting on the characters an… read more

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  • poetry
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19. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

By: Jing Tsu

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world… read more

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  • china
  • nonfiction
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20. Shifting the Silence

By: Etel Adnan

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Silence is the creation of space, a space that memory needs to use . . . an incubator. We're dealing here with dimensions, stretching our inner muscles, pushing aside any interference. We're dealing …"

-Etel Adnan, Shifting the Silence

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21. My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems

By: Yi Lei

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of China’s most significant contemporary poets, co-translated by former US Poet Laureate Tracy … read more

Similar categories in Yi Lei's My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems book and Yi Lei's My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • asian literature
  • china
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9 Top nonfiction books like My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems by Yi Lei

Transform Your Habits

Counting Descent

Clint Smith

4.50

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The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Warsan Shire

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Alive At The End Of The World

Saeed Jones

4.35

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21 Top fiction books like Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

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Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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