23 Best poetry books like Borderline Fortune (Penguin Poets) by Teresa K. Miller

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Borderline Fortune (Penguin Poets)

By: Teresa K. Miller

3.70

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A collection that explores inherited trauma on an individual and communal level, from a National Po…

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1. Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems

By: N. Scott Momaday

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers … read more

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2. Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more

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3. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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4. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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5. Crumbs

By: Danie Stirling

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Falling in love just got sweeter in this charming, romantic YA graphic novel from WEBTOON, the #1 d… read more

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6. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

By: Emily Tesh

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more

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"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

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7. 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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8. SPY×FAMILY 8

By: Tatsuya Endo

4.52

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

東国の秘密組織「ガーデン」の任務で、ヨルは豪華客船に乗り込みマフィアの要人を護衛する事に! ロイドとアーニャも旅行で同船している上、ヨルは裏の仕事に迷いが生じ!? read more

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9. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

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"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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10. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

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"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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11. 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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"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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12. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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13. 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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14. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

By: Paul Tran

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more

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"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

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15. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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16. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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17. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

By: Melissa Febos

4.24

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more

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"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."

-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

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18. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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19. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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20. And Yet: Poems

By: Kate Baer

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more

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"Let your life rest on what is already good."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

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21. SPY×FAMILY 9

By: Tatsuya Endo

4.45

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

ヨルvs暗殺者集団の戦いは終局へ…!! その一方で、豪華客船には爆弾が仕掛けられていた――! 危機を察知したロイドとアーニャは、それぞれ尽力するが…!? read more

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22. Fence, Vol. 6: Redemption

By: C.S. Pacat

4.42

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A mysterious new fencer arrives at Halverton in the newest chapter of the GLAAD Media Award-nominat… read more

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23. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

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"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

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24. 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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25. 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 Poukahangatus: Poems by Tayi Tibble

26. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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27. A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems

By: Emily Jungmin Yoon

4.22

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new ta… read more

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Cover of Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land by N. Scott Momaday

28. Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

By: N. Scott Momaday

4.23

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

"Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illu… read more

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Cover of Requeening: Poems by Amanda  Moore

29. Requeening: Poems

By: Amanda Moore

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft pr… read more

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Cover of Borderline Fortune (Penguin Poets) by Teresa K. Miller

30. Borderline Fortune (Penguin Poets)

By: Teresa K. Miller

3.70

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A collection that explores inherited trauma on an individual and communal level, from a National Po… read more

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Cover of The Study of Human Life (Penguin Poets) by Joshua Bennett

31. The Study of Human Life (Penguin Poets)

By: Joshua Bennett

4.02

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A third collection that reveals an acclaimed poet further extending his range into the realm of spe… read more

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