13 Top poetry books like Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm (Juniper Prize for Poetry) by Austen Leah Rose

Cover of Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm (Juniper Prize for Poetry) by Austen Leah Rose

Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm (Juniper Prize for Poetry)

By: Austen Leah Rose

4.75

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Does history live inside of us? Are we capable of transcending the past or are we destined to repea…

If you liked the poetry plot in Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm (Juniper Prize for Poetry) by Austen Leah Rose , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

2. Ruin

By: Cynthia Cruz

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Reader, take heed: These are no ordinary poems about childhood. In a series of secular prayers, Cyn… read more

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3. The Game of Boxes: Poems

By: Catherine Barnett

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The second collection by Catherine Barnett, whose "poems are scrupulously restrained and beautifull… read more

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4. Breakfast at Tiffany's

By: Truman Capote

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the Am… read more

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5. 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

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and Austen Leah Rose's Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm (Juniper Prize for Poetry)

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"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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6. 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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Cover of Bluest Nude: Poems by Ama Codjoe

7. Bluest Nude: Poems

By: Ama Codjoe

4.48

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated de… read more

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8. In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more

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"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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9. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Cover of Judas Goat: Poems by Gabrielle Bates

10. 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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Cover of Sex Depression Animals: Poems (Journal CBWheeler Poetry Prize) by Mag Gabbert

11. Sex Depression Animals: Poems (Journal CBWheeler Poetry Prize)

By: Mag Gabbert

4.54

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

In SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery, insistent, and resistant te… read more

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Cover of Fixer: Poems by Edgar Kunz

12. Fixer: Poems

By: Edgar Kunz

4.20

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edg… read more

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Cover of Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco by K. Iver

13. Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco

By: K. Iver

4.59

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr P… read more

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Cover of Pleasure Principle: Poems by Madeleine Cravens

14. Pleasure Principle: Poems

By: Madeleine Cravens

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth. In her stunning debu… read more

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Cover of Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm (Juniper Prize for Poetry) by Austen Leah Rose

15. Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm (Juniper Prize for Poetry)

By: Austen Leah Rose

4.75

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Does history live inside of us? Are we capable of transcending the past or are we destined to repea… read more

Similar categories in Austen Leah Rose's Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm (Juniper Prize for Poetry) book and Austen Leah Rose's Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm (Juniper Prize for Poetry)

  • poetry
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16. Buffalo Girl

By: Jessica Q. Stark

4.33

Format: 126 pages, None

In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother’s fraught immigration to the United Sta… read more

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17. As She Appears

By: Shelley Wong

4.14

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*** ***WINNER OF THE 2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD*** … read more

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18. The Love Poems of May Swenson

By: May Swenson

4.27

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

This is a collection of sixty powerful love poems. read more

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9 must-read contemporary books like frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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