18 best-selling poetry books like Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women by Peter Levitt

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Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women

By: Peter Levitt

4.21

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Freshly translated poems reveal the complexity, self-realization, and spiritual freedom of three cl…

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1. Goddesses in Everywoman

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypcal goddesses as a way of describing be… read more

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"В действительности архетипы не имеют имён, и образы богинь полезны только тогда, когда они соответствуют женским ощущениям и чувствам"

-Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Everywoman

"The individuation journey — the psychological quest for wholeness — ends in the union of opposites; in the inner marriage of “masculine"

-Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Everywoman

"O pilar e o anel em forma de círculo representam os princípios masculino e feminino. Na Grécia antiga o pilar era o "hérnia" que ficava do lado de fora da casa representando Hermes, enquanto a lareir…"

-Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Everywoman

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2. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

By: bell hooks

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's lea… read more

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  • poetry
"When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience."

-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

"sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilde…"

-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

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3. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • poetry
  • china
  • history
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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4. Bone Map: Poems

By: Martha Collins , Sara Eliza Johnson

3.54

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection, Bone Map(2013 National Poetry Seri… read more

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  • poetry
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5. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.42

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Alan Moore's familiar cast of Victorian literary characters enters the brave new world of the 20th … read more

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6. 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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  • poetry

7. I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

By: Hafez , Daniel Ladinsky

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the renowned translator of The Gift, a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to West… read more

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  • poetry

8. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

By: bell hooks

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more

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9. Why I Wake Early

By: Mary Oliver

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snak… 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. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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12. The Hole

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.49

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more

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"I moved out here with my husband."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

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13. Inward

By: Yung Pueblo

4.22

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Inward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to un… read more

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  • poetry
"i can only give to you what i have already given to myself i can only understand the world as much as i understand myself"

-Yung Pueblo, Inward

"to expect another to resolve all of our issues and give us the happiness we desire is to expect to see the sunrise without opening our own eyes. it is to ask a river to give us nourishment without di…"

-Yung Pueblo, Inward

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14. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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  • poetry
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15. An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

4.28

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more

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  • poetry
  • history
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

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16. Poison for Breakfast

By: Lemony Snicket

3.86

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

For more than twenty years, Lemony Snicket has led millions of young readers through a mysterious w… read more

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"Bye bye doggie."

-Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

"I am a loneliness savant."

-Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

"I can compare sadness to a car because both are quite capable of running me over."

-Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

"In a manner of speaking," I said, using one of my favorite ways of saying "No, you are wrong."

-Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

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17. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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  • poetry
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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18. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • history
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19. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück

20. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

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  • poetry
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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21. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver

4.58

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more

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  • poetry
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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22. The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy)

By: Yung Pueblo

4.42

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this thir… read more

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  • poetry
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23. 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

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  • poetry
"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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24. Break Your Glass Slippers (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #1)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.95

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"more forgetting time.more midnight dances with yourself."amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-… read more

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  • poetry
"when you spend all your time imagining yourself in other people's shoes, your own story goes unwritten, & there is nothing more painful than that."

-Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #1)

"here is nothing unfeminist about the girl who chooses the ball gown & the prince. there is everything unfeminist about those who try to shame her for her choices."

-Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #1)

"inside the cramped fitting room, she slips into dress after dress as if she´s trying to slip into someone else´s life. - much to her dismay, her reflection stays the same."

-Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #1)

"if he doesn’t think you’re absolutely stunning at your dirty sweats & grass-stained feet, then he sure as hell doesn’t deserve you at your fancy dress & uncomfortable heels."

-Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #1)

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25. The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 3

By: Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

4.71

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

THE LONELY ROAD TO HELL As Mo Ran accompanies Chu Wanning in pursuit of the mastermind behind th… read more

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  • china
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26. The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2

By: Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

4.57

Format: 524 pages, Paperback

The longer Mo Ran spends in his life reborn, the less he understands the man he once was, to say no… read more

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  • china
"It wasn't that he didn't care for those around him, only that he did it quietly. Such solitude, day after day, without anyone to see or notice, was also a kind of torment."

-Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2

"His heart raced in his chest, and his palms were covered with sweat, humiliated by his loss of self-control. He really had been alone for too long, if he could mistake a tiny sliver of kindness and c…"

-Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2

"MY HEART HAS STILLED, and my thoughts turned to ash / Yet unexpectedly, thelight of spring shines through the cold night. / Could it be that the heavens pity the blade of grass in the secluded valley…"

-Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2

"MY HEART HAS STILLED, and my thoughts turned to ash / Yet unexpectedly, the light of spring shines through the cold night. / Could it be that the heavens pity the blade of grass in the secluded valle…"

-Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2

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27. The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi

By: Lou Reed

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Art of the Straight Line captures the energy of Lou Reed’s worlds of Tai Chi, music, and medita… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

By: David Hinton

4.01

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, … read more

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  • poetry
  • china
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29. Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women

By: Peter Levitt

4.21

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Freshly translated poems reveal the complexity, self-realization, and spiritual freedom of three cl… read more

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  • poetry
  • china
  • history
  • taoism
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30. The Little Book of Zen Healing: Japanese Rituals for Beauty, Harmony, and Love

By: Paula Arai

4.32

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Accessible and adaptable Japanese Buddhist rituals to infuse your life with purpose, healing, and g… read more

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31. The Essential Guide to Trauma Sensitive Yoga

By: Lara Land

4.50

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An essential manual for yoga teachers and students to create a trauma-sensitive practice that benef… read more

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4.30

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Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

4.71

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4.57

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4.34

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4.40

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