23 Best poetry books like In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive by Clementine von Radics

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In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

By: Clementine von Radics

3.79

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

A lyrical poet, Clementine von Radics presents In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive,  a collection o…

"I am afraid I will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again."

-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

"I am afraid I will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again."

-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

"There is a better version of this story where we both leave him. Instead of loving him so much it felt like church. Building a cathedral inside his crooked mouth."

-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

"There is a better version of this story where we both leave him. Instead of loving him so much it felt like church. Building a cathedral inside his crooked mouth."

-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

If you liked the poetry plot in In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive by Clementine von Radics , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Serious Concerns

By: Wendy Cope

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's Serious Concerns book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • poetry plays
  • nonfiction
"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

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2. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

By: Warsan Shire

4.25

Format: 37 pages, Paperback

What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more

Similar categories in Warsan Shire's Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Her body is one long sigh."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

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

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

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3. I Am More Than a Daydream

By: Jennae Cecelia

3.91

Format: 73 pages, Paperback

How often do you daydream?For most, it is many times a day.We stare out the window instead of the t… read more

Similar categories in Jennae Cecelia's I Am More Than a Daydream book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"In the end, we have only ever seen our faces in reflections and pictures. Our true beauty is a secret to us and maybe that's why we are the last to believe in it. - mirror, mirror, on the wall From p…"

-Jennae Cecelia, I Am More Than a Daydream

"In the end, we have only ever seen our faces in reflections and pictures. Our true beauty is a secret to us and maybe that's why we are the last to believe in it. - mirror, mirror, on the wall" From …"

-Jennae Cecelia, I Am More Than a Daydream

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4. Dream Work

By: Mary Oliver

4.35

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more

Similar categories in Mary Oliver's Dream Work book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

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5. Salt

By: Nayyirah Waheed

4.24

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

salt. a literary work. read more

Similar categories in Nayyirah Waheed's Salt book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"i like myself. when i am myself."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"poetry. is the fire leaving my body."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"healing begins the moment you want it to"

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"she was a beautiful place to bare my legs."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

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6. The Chaos of Longing

By: K.Y. Robinson

4.16

Format: 1342 pages, Paperback

The Chaos of Longingis a brutally honest exploration of desire--physical, emotional, and spiritual.… read more

Similar categories in K.Y. Robinson's The Chaos of Longing book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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7. Diaries of Franz Kafka

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Martin Greenberg , Joseph Kresh

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka's death at the age of forty. They… read more

Similar categories in Franz Kafka's Diaries of Franz Kafka book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. No Matter the Wreckage

By: Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Kay's No Matter the Wreckage book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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9. 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

Similar categories in Richard Siken's Crush book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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10. Prelude to Bruise

By: Saeed Jones

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

From "Sleeping Arrangement": Take your hand out from under my pillow. And take your sheets with you… read more

Similar categories in Saeed Jones's Prelude to Bruise book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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11. 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

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer

12. What We Buried

By: Caitlyn Siehl

3.43

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

This book is a cemetery of truths buried alive. The light draws you in where you will find Caitlyn … read more

Similar categories in Caitlyn Siehl's What We Buried book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

13. Hold Your Own

By: Kae Tempest

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for Brand New Ancients and widely regarded as the UK's… read more

Similar categories in Kae Tempest's Hold Your Own book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

14. Autopsy

By: None

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Written after the death of his mother, Donte Collins's Autopsy establishes the poet as one of the m… read more

Similar categories in None's Autopsy book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

15. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

Similar categories in Mary Oliver's Felicity book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

16. 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

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Calling a Wolf a Wolf book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

17. What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems

By: Kim Addonizio

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post. read more

Similar categories in Kim Addonizio's What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

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18. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky

By: Rudy Francisco

4.64

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With … read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
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19. Helium (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.29

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by … read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's Helium (Button Poetry) book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"The word “repurpose"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"I held you the way a boat holds water."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

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20. I Am Not Your Final Girl

By: Claire C. Holland

3.71

Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition

From Claire C. Holland, a timely collection of poetry that follows the final girl of slasher cinema… read more

Similar categories in Claire C. Holland's I Am Not Your Final Girl book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Her faced, bathed in blood. Her smile, crazed. The sounds she makes as she escapes. There is nothing else in this world like realizing you're going to live and not being sure you can."

-Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl

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21. Aphrodite Made Me Do It

By: Trista Mateer

3.97

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in th… read more

Similar categories in Trista Mateer's Aphrodite Made Me Do It book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • queer
"Not all gods are born. Plenty of us rise."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"I’m afraid of not unlearning the bad things my parents taught me."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"love has little to do with blood relations and more to do with who you choose to bleed for"

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"The thing about embracing your own chaos is that it never becomes clear when you need to stop."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

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22. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

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23. Love and Other Poems

By: Alex Dimitrov

4.10

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin… read more

Similar categories in Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • queer
  • queer lit
  • lgbt
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24. Honeybee

By: Trista Mateer

3.85

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer "expertly exposes the intensity of first love" in… read more

Similar categories in Trista Mateer's Honeybee book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I still wake up with things to tell you."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"Walking away from you feels like not taking care of myself."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"I Have A Postcard Mouth All it ever says is: wish you were here."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"I still have a lot of growing to do and I know there is more room for it in your absence."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

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25. I Am More Than My Nightmares

By: Jennae Cecelia

3.81

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

I Am More Than My Nightmares is my journey from being engulfed in fear to learning how to let my mi… read more

Similar categories in Jennae Cecelia's I Am More Than My Nightmares book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • mental illness
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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26. Artemis Made Me Do It

By: Trista Mateer

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another magical approach to self-ca… read more

Similar categories in Trista Mateer's Artemis Made Me Do It book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Forgive me if I unlearn pretty and learn vicious in its place."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"I believe all men think of me as a piece. Correction: Not all men."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"Look at you, taking care of everyone but yourself, letting love make you hollow instead of full."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"The wolf caught me in its jaws but when I cried out, other only said: I have seen the wolf many times and he has not bitten me"

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

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27. Please Love Me at My Worst

By: Michaela Angemeer

3.89

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Notable TikTok creator Michaela Angemeer explores connecting with your inner child, loving the wors… read more

Similar categories in Michaela Angemeer's Please Love Me at My Worst book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"who would i be if i had never been loved by you"

-Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst

"and when the shore seems out of reach don't forget that you can always just float for a while"

-Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst

"why did you show this hurt to such a little girl her small hands couldn’t handle your blade it ripped her heart open while you poured the acid you can keep your attempt at love"

-Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst

"today i love me more than i loved you and that's all i can ask of myself i keep waiting for my coming of age but if i wait it will never come so i will sit here i will float i will write about my bod…"

-Michaela Angemeer, Please Love Me at My Worst

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28. If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

By: Blythe Baird

4.36

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and tri… read more

Similar categories in Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry) book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Remember: you did the best you could in the situation you were in with the materials you had."

-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

"Even though trauma has a way of becoming the wallpaper of my head, watch me drag the art out of my suffering. Watch me plant seeds down my spine and bloom into a garden of poetry from every horrible …"

-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

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29. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.31

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry) book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

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30. Date & Time (Button Poetry)

By: Phil Kaye

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Phil Kaye's debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and cel… read more

Similar categories in Phil Kaye's Date & Time (Button Poetry) book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
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31. In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

By: Clementine von Radics

3.79

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

A lyrical poet, Clementine von Radics presents In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive,  a collection o… read more

Similar categories in Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive book and Clementine von Radics's In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • poetry plays
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I am afraid I will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again."

-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

"There is a better version of this story where we both leave him. Instead of loving him so much it felt like church. Building a cathedral inside his crooked mouth."

-Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

19 Best nonfiction books like In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive by Clementine von Radics

Transform Your Habits

Serious Concerns

Wendy Cope

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Warsan Shire

4.25

Transform Your Habits

I Am More Than a Daydream

Jennae Cecelia

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Dream Work

Mary Oliver

4.35

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8 best-selling contemporary books like Helium (Button Poetry) by Rudy Francisco

Transform Your Habits

No Matter the Wreckage

Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Depression & Other Magic Tricks

Sabrina Benaim

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Our Numbered Days

Neil Hilborn

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Helium (Button Poetry)

Rudy Francisco

4.29

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