25 Top poetry books like Public Abstract by Jane Huffman

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Public Abstract

By: Jane Huffman

4.57

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and selected by judge Dana Levin, Public Abstract…

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1. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

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"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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3. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

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4. 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

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5. Hard Child

By: Natalie Shapero

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent aba… read more

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  • poetry
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6. 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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7. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

8. No Object

By: Natalie Shapero

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

-It is unbefitting to believe in ghosts, to believe what one reads, /what one writes, - writes Nata… read more

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9. Forest Primeval

By: Vievee Francis

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Another Anti-Pastoral," the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail.… read more

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10. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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11. Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979

By: Susan Howe

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Paperback

Gathered here are versions of Hinge Picture(1974), Chanting at the Crystal Sea(1975), Cabbage Garde… read more

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12. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

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"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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13. 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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  • poetry
"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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14. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

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  • poetry
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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15. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

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16. 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
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17. The Topeka School

By: Ben Lerner

3.50

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive famil… read more

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"The problem for him in high school was that debate made you a nerd and poetry made you a pussy – even if both could help you get to the vaguely imagines East Coast city from which your experiences in…"

-Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

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18. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

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"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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19. 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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20. 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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  • poetry
Cover of Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate: Poems (Ecco Essentials) by James Tate

21. Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate: Poems (Ecco Essentials)

By: James Tate

4.28

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems that will captivate today’s readers, wi… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris

22. 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 Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl by Diane Seuss

23. Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl

By: Diane Seuss

4.41

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry… read more

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  • poetry
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24. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Winter Stranger: Poems (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize) by Jackson Holbert

25. Winter Stranger: Poems (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize)

By: Jackson Holbert

4.22

Format: 77 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert’s Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addic… read more

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26. A Theory of Birds

By: Zaina Alsous

4.43

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a p… read more

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27. All Souls: Poems

By: Saskia Hamilton

3.68

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

In All Souls , Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the… read more

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28. Public Abstract

By: Jane Huffman

4.57

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and selected by judge Dana Levin, Public Abstract… read more

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29. a Year & other poems

By: Jos Charles

3.42

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recou… read more

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  • poetry
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30. 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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31. Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems

By: Martin Shaw

4.43

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Dramatic new retellings of Celtic poetry’s great lyrics and legendsCinderbiter collects tales and p… read more

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19 Best poetry books like Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate: Poems (Ecco Essentials) by James Tate

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass

4.29

Transform Your Habits

King Me

Roger Reeves

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

3.45

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