11 must-read poetry books like The Matrix: Poems: 1960-1970 by N.H. Pritchard

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The Matrix: Poems: 1960-1970

By: N.H. Pritchard

4.52

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

N.H. Pritchard (born 1939) was one of the few black practitioners of the concrete poetry movement, …

If you liked the poetry plot in The Matrix: Poems: 1960-1970 by N.H. Pritchard , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Vita Nova

By: Louise Glück

3.95

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In Vita Nova , Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glück man… read more

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"be a brave dog - this is all material"

-Louise Glück, Vita Nova

"His gaze touched me before his hands touched me."

-Louise Glück, Vita Nova

"It was never focus that was missing, it was meaning."

-Louise Glück, Vita Nova

"I had two desires: desire to be safe and desire to feel."

-Louise Glück, Vita Nova

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2. Meadowlands

By: Louise Glück

4.08

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Louise Glück sows the fertile subject ground of marital discord in harvesting this crop of gems. Th… read more

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"Watching you stare into space in the tidy rows of the vegetable garden, ostensibly working hard while actually doing the worst job possible, I think you are a small irritating purple thing and I woul…"

-Louise Glück, Meadowlands

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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. Ararat

By: Louise Glück

4.12

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Louise Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry … read more

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"To say I’m without fear– it wouldn’t be true. I’m afraid of sickness, humiliation. Like anyone, I have my dreams. But I’ve learned to hide them, to protect myself from fulfillment: all happiness attr…"

-Louise Glück, Ararat

"As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to …"

-Louise Glück, Ararat

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5. The Seven Ages

By: Louise Glück

4.02

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The Seven Ages was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1999. The fierce, austerely b… read more

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"I even loved a few times in my disgusting human way."

-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

"Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you it will not keep you alive."

-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

"The curtains parted. Light coming in. Moonlight, then sunlight. Not changing because time was passing but because the one moment had many aspects."

-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

"Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?"

-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

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6. The Age of Reason

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

4.17

Format: None pages,

The first fully Existentialist fiction by the creator of a philosophical movement that captured the… read more

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7. The House on Marshland

By: Louise Glück

3.95

Format: None pages,

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8. Descending Figure

By: Louise Glück

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

(The American poetry series) read more

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9. Wittgenstein's Mistress

By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more

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10. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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11. Faithful and Virtuous Night

By: Louise Glück

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more

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12. Firstborn: Poems

By: Louise Glück

4.08

Format: 234 pages,

LoC: 6818259 ASIN: B000UE2H3Y read more

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13. A Village Life

By: Louise Glück

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village,… read more

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14. Rogue Male

By: Geoffrey Household

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Rogue Male is one of the classic thrillers of the 20th century. An Englishman plans to assassinate … read more

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15. Triumph of Achilles

By: Louise Glück

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

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16. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

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"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

17. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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18. 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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19. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

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"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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20. Notes on ‘Camp’

By: Susan Sontag

3.97

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more

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"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

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21. The Matrix: Poems: 1960-1970

By: N.H. Pritchard

4.52

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

N.H. Pritchard (born 1939) was one of the few black practitioners of the concrete poetry movement, … read more

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9 must-read fiction books like Firstborn: Poems by Louise Glück

Transform Your Habits

Tropismes

Nathalie Sarraute

3.66

Transform Your Habits

A Season in Hell

Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

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Actual Air

David Berman

4.38

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Louise Glück

4.08

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