23 must-read poetry books like The Hartford Book by Samuel Amadon

Cover of The Hartford Book by Samuel Amadon

The Hartford Book

By: Samuel Amadon

4.36

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

"These poems are street-smart, buoyantly lyrical, and they possess something beautiful and permanen…

If you liked the poetry plot in The Hartford Book by Samuel Amadon , here is a list of 23 books like this:

Cover of Meadowlands by Louise Glück

1. 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

Cover of Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney

2. Head Off & Split

By: Nikky Finney

3.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Winner of 2011 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of 2012 GLCS Award for Poetry Winner of 2012 S… read more

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Cover of Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

3. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.10

Format: 264 pages,

In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more

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Cover of Louise in Love by Mary Jo Bang

4. Louise in Love

By: Mary Jo Bang

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

In this stunning new collection of poems, Mary Jo Bang jettisons the reader into the dreamlike worl… read more

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Cover of Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

5. 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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6. Human Wishes

By: Robert Hass

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poems deal with language, desire, suffering, art, human relationships, and mortality. read more

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7. 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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"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

Cover of Beast Meridian by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

8. 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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9. 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

Cover of Customs: Poems by Solmaz Sharif

10. 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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Cover of Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen

11. Ghost Of

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

4.36

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more

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12. Debt

By: Mark Levine

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Poems deal with identity, the past, work, dreams, literature, boundaries, and communication read more

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Cover of suddenly we by Evie Shockley

13. suddenly we

By: Evie Shockley

4.34

Format: 112 pages, Audiobook

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious "we"In her new poet… read more

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Cover of Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff

14. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

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Cover of Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 62) by Tongo Eisen-Martin

15. Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 62)

By: Tongo Eisen-Martin

4.38

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry - Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Allian… read more

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Cover of Mass for Shut-Ins (Volume 117) (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Mary-Alice Daniel

16. Mass for Shut-Ins (Volume 117) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

By: Mary-Alice Daniel

4.23

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Mass for Shut-Ins is the 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, selected by award-winnin… read more

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Cover of Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T. Fleischmann

17. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

By: T. Fleischmann

4.01

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more

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"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

Cover of Yellow Rain: Poems by Mai Der Vang

18. Yellow Rain: Poems

By: Mai Der Vang

4.37

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FI… read more

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Cover of Sun Bear by Matthew Zapruder

19. Sun Bear

By: Matthew Zapruder

3.89

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Zapruder's poems don't merely attempt beauty; they attain it."— The Boston Review "Matthew Zaprude… read more

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Cover of Chariot by Timothy Donnelly

20. Chariot

By: Timothy Donnelly

4.46

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Donnelly’s fourth collection of poems, Chariot , ferries the reader toward an endless horiz… read more

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Cover of Gut by Amanda  Larson

21. 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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Cover of The Hartford Book by Samuel Amadon

22. The Hartford Book

By: Samuel Amadon

4.36

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

"These poems are street-smart, buoyantly lyrical, and they possess something beautiful and permanen… read more

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Cover of July by Kathleen Ossip

23. July

By: Kathleen Ossip

3.72

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In her groundbreaking and most politicized collection, Kathleen Ossip takes a hard look at the U.S.… read more

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Cover of A Symmetry: Poems by Ari Banias

24. A Symmetry: Poems

By: Ari Banias

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2022 Publish Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Award Finalist for the 202… read more

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6 Best contemporary books like Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Quiet

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Modern Poetry: Poems

Diane Seuss

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Information Desk: An Epic

Robyn Schiff

3.99

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