24 Best poetry books like Gut by Amanda Larson

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Gut

By: Amanda Larson

4.48

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Amanda Larson’s Gut begins with an epigraph from Frank O’Hara: “Pain always produces logic, which …

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1. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • poetry
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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2. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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  • poetry
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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3. Dancing in Odessa

By: Ilya Kaminsky

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky … read more

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  • poetry
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4. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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  • poetry

5. Black Movie

By: Danez Smith

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Poetry. African American Studies. These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac bi… read more

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6. Simulacra

By: Carl Phillips , None

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D.… read more

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7. 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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8. Felon: Poems

By: Reginald Dwayne Betts

4.34

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more

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  • poetry
"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

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9. 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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  • poetry
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10. 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

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  • poetry
"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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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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  • 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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12. Salt Slow

By: Julia Armfield

3.99

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more

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"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

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13. Beast Meridian

By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Beast Meridian narrates the first- generation Mexican American girl, tracking the experiences of cu… read more

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  • poetry
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14. Barbie Chang

By: Victoria Chang

4.15

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Barbie’s cultural artifice is unmasked by Victoria Chang’s imagination, lifting the struggle of Asi… read more

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  • poetry
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15. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

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16. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

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  • poetry
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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17. Vladimir

By: Julia May Jonas

3.44

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew … read more

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"Onları konuştur! (Kendi düşündüklerinden başka bir şeyle ilgilenmiyorlar zaten.)"

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"Bazen iyi yaşanmış bir hayat gibi geliyor gözüme. Bazen de her şeyi yakıp kül etmek, minimalist olmak geliyor içimden."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"I didn’t want to be in the world, around all those people who didn’t read books, who didn’t think they were important."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"She is delighted with herself, unaware of the mess she is making, the sight she looks, the implications of her movements."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

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18. Weird Fucks

By: Lynne Tillman

3.17

Format: None pages, None

Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more

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19. 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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  • poetry
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20. 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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  • poetry
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21. Have You Been Long Enough At Table

By: Leslie Sainz

4.27

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Marvelous.”―Terrance Hayes Taking its title from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea , Leslie Sain… read more

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  • poetry
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22. Constellation Route

By: Matthew Olzmann

4.31

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Fixer: Poems by Edgar Kunz

23. 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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  • poetry
Cover of With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang

24. With My Back to the World: Poems

By: Victoria Chang

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more

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  • poetry
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25. Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118)

By: Cindy Juyoung Ok

4.37

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation   “The… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets) by Su Cho

26. The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets)

By: Su Cho

3.83

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about i… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Pleasure Principle: Poems by Madeleine Cravens

27. 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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  • poetry
Cover of All Souls: Poems by Saskia Hamilton

28. All Souls: Poems

By: Saskia Hamilton

3.68

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

In All Souls , Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the… read more

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  • poetry
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29. a Year & other poems

By: Jos Charles

3.42

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recou… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Gut

By: Amanda Larson

4.48

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Amanda Larson’s Gut begins with an epigraph from Frank O’Hara: “Pain always produces logic, which … read more

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  • poetry

31. Alma

By: Linda Gregg

4.28

Format: None pages, Hardcover

SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. SCUFFING, MINOR EDGE WEAR & SOME DINGS ON COVERS AND SPINE EDGES. … read more

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  • poetry

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3.84

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