18 must-read poetry books like Aerial Concave Without Cloud by Sueyeun Juliette Lee

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Aerial Concave Without Cloud

By: Sueyeun Juliette Lee

4.73

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A collection of poems about starlight, survival, resilience, and acceptance after experiences of pr…

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1. The Bridge

By: Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler

4.08

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America. B… read more

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"O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God."

-Hart Crane, The Bridge

"O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits The agile precincts of the lark’s return; Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing In single chrysalis the many twain — Of stars Thou art the stitch and…"

-Hart Crane, The Bridge

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2. Song of Solomon

By: Toni Morrison

4.14

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more

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"Her passions were narrow but deep."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"He can't value you more than you value yourself."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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3. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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4. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

By: Audre Lorde

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more

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5. Midwinter Day

By: Bernadette Mayer

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts… read more

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  • poetry
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6. The Book of Joan

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending… read more

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7. 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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  • poetry
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8. Event Factory

By: Renee Gladman

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Fiction. A "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefi… read more

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  • poetry
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9. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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10. 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

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11. Female Masculinity

By: J. Jack Halberstam

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of… read more

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12. Against Interpretation and Other Essays

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more

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13. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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14. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more

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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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15. 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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16. Stay True

By: Hua Hsu

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more

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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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18. Pure Colour

By: Sheila Heti

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more

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"And what opens one heart opens many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

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19. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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20. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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21. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

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22. 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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23. or, on being the other woman

By: Simone White

4.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

In or, on being the other woman , Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminis… read more

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  • poetry
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24. The Lights: Poems

By: Ben Lerner

3.84

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more

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25. A Treatise on Stars

By: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

3.78

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau) Winner of the Bollingen… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Imagine Us, The Swarm by Muriel Leung

26. Imagine Us, The Swarm

By: Muriel Leung

4.54

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

WINNER of the 2022 Four Quartets Prize! 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALIST!  Winner of the Nightb… read more

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27. Chariot

By: Timothy Donnelly

4.46

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Donnelly’s fourth collection of poems, Chariot , ferries the reader toward an endless horiz… read more

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Cover of Aerial Concave Without Cloud by Sueyeun Juliette Lee

28. Aerial Concave Without Cloud

By: Sueyeun Juliette Lee

4.73

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A collection of poems about starlight, survival, resilience, and acceptance after experiences of pr… read more

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  • poetry
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29. Sheep Machine

By: Vi Khi Nao

4.38

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Sheep Machine is a textual inscape, a poetically painted nonfictional pasture where mechanical viol… read more

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Cover of Metamorphoses (City Lights Spotlight, No. 22) by Evan Kennedy

30. Metamorphoses (City Lights Spotlight, No. 22)

By: Evan Kennedy

4.22

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

One of Publishers Weekly 's Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring 2023 Metamorphoses springs fr… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Emporium

By: Aditi Machado

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In Emporium, Aditi Machado investigates transnationalism and translation in poems that follow a mer… read more

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Richard Siken

3.67

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Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

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Diane Seuss

4.50

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