5 must-read anthologies books like A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press by Michael Wiegers

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A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press

By: Michael Wiegers

4.57

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press p…

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1. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

By: Ross Gay

4.25

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more

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"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"

-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

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2. A Poetry Handbook

By: Mary Oliver

4.22

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"(...) A Poetry Handbook was written with writers of poetry most vividly in my mind; their needs an… read more

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"A poem on the page speaks to the listening mind."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"Invention hovers always a little above the rules."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"The language of the poem is the language of particulars."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"Whatever can't be taught, there is a great deal that can, and must, be learned."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

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3. Sharks in the Rivers

By: Ada Limon

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more

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4. The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa

By: Matsuo Bashō , Robert Hass , Kobayashi Issa , Yosa Buson

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

American readers have been fascinated since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteen… read more

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  • anthologies
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5. Paris Spleen

By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more

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  • poetry
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6. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

By: Sarah Bakewell

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more

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7. The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy

By: John Brehm

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Over 125 poetic companions, from Basho to Billy Collins, Saigyo to Shakespeare. The poems expertly … read more

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8. Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

By: Lucille Clifton

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "Lucille Clifton is one of the four or five most authenti… read more

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9. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

By: Lyz Lenz

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more

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"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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10. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

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"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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11. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

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12. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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13. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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14. 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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15. Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

By: Christian Wiman

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. … read more

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16. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

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17. To 2040

By: Jorie Graham

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single wor… read more

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18. A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press

By: Michael Wiegers

4.57

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press p… read more

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  • anthologies
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19. The Asking: New and Selected Poems

By: Jane Hirshfield

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in… read more

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"Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder."

-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems

"The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hand…"

-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems

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20. Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories

By: Hannah Tinti

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

“Lovers of the short story, rejoice! There’s something for everyone in this anniversary collection … read more

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21. My Heart Is Not Asleep

By: Thomas A. Thomas

5.00

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

More Praise for My Heart Is Not Asleep What a blessing this book is: poems earned from the thresho… read more

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15 Best poetry books like A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press by Michael Wiegers

Transform Your Habits

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Ross Gay

4.25

Transform Your Habits

A Poetry Handbook

Mary Oliver

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa

Matsuo Bashō , Robert Hass , Kobayashi Issa , Yosa Buson

3.91

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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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