13 Best poetry books like 100 Poems That Matter by The Academy of American Poets

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100 Poems That Matter

By: The Academy of American Poets

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A moving, thought-provoking, and emotional anthology of classical and contemporary poems that invit…

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1. March: Book Three (March, #3)

By: Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.65

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman… read more

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2. Selected Poems

By: Langston Hughes

4.31

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poem… read more

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"Consider me, Descended also From the Mystery."

-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

"The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water."

-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

"Hell no! It's time to talk back now! History says it's time"

-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

"Joe has sense enough to know He is a god. So many gods don't know."

-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

3. The Last to Let Go

By: Amber Smith

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A twisted tragedy leaves Brooke and her siblings on their own in this provocative new novel from th… read more

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4. Dog Songs

By: None , Mary Oliver

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more

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5. Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

"You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before h… read more

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6. Light Filters in: Poems

By: Caroline Kaufman

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short… read more

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  • fiction
"if you think you are drowning, just remember: you float in water."

-Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters in: Poems

"Don't ask for respect; Demand it. Don't look for opportunity; Grab it. Don't add to the world; Change it."

-Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters in: Poems

"how to stop the thoughts how to stop the sadness how to be happy how to be happy how to be happy how to be happy"

-Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters in: Poems

"Be grateful that Time will heal the wounds but Leave the scars. How else will you Remember all that You've survived?"

-Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters in: Poems

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7. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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8. Musical Tables: Poems

By: Billy Collins

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more

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  • poetry
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9. 75 Hard: A Tactical Guide to Winning the War with Yourself

By: Andy Frisella

3.86

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what it is that separates people who seem to win at everything in life from … read more

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10. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

By: Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more

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11. Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems

By: Misha Collins

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself… read more

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"Only schizophrenics See the beauty here."

-Misha Collins, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems

"I ran toward it all, thinking the destruction might purify me."

-Misha Collins, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems

"Reading your note, at our table, in my voice, I heard you were ready to accept my love, Which, of course, changes everything."

-Misha Collins, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems

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12. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

By: Joy Harjo

4.34

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more

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"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."

-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

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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. No Flight Without the Shatter

By: Brooke Bolander

3.76

Format: 32 pages, ebook

From the wondrous mind of Brooke Bolander, the author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, who "shares… read more

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"Hatching is not the end of what lies inside the egg, only the end of the shell around it. There’s no flight without the shatter, and no flock without the flight. What we’re made of will go on. A fled…"

-Brooke Bolander, No Flight Without the Shatter

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15. A Year of Last Things: Poems

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.61

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more

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16. Nocturnal

By: Wilder Poetry

3.85

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Nocturnal is a collection of words and imagery inspired by darkened skies and sleepless nights. it … read more

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17. Flowers on the Moon

By: Billy Chapata

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Social media sensation Billy Chapata shares insight and advice into the powerful world of love, hea… read more

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"darling, if you have to convince them of your worthiness, they might not be worth holding on to. poison comes in shiny bottles too."

-Billy Chapata, Flowers on the Moon

"darling, you don't have to be seen to be worthy. you are still whole without their acknowledgment. you will still breathe without their surveillance. you still exist."

-Billy Chapata, Flowers on the Moon

"as my relationships with others change, my relationship with myself evolves too. at times i can’t get enough of myself, and at other times i need a hiatus from me. at times i understand myself, and a…"

-Billy Chapata, Flowers on the Moon

"your journey will scare some people. the steps that you take will intimidate others, and the paths that you take will confuse some. people are afraid of things they can’t control, and when they reali…"

-Billy Chapata, Flowers on the Moon

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18. Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back

By: Alicia Cook

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Sorry I haven't texted you back,  ( I've been anxious and depressed)  I haven't had time to catch m… read more

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"We may sleep together, but my dreams are my own."

-Alicia Cook, Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back

"Sometimes time, try as it might, can't keep it's word and doesn't heal you from what occurred. When they ask me how long you've been dead, you die in my head all over again."

-Alicia Cook, Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back

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19. 100 Poems That Matter

By: The Academy of American Poets

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A moving, thought-provoking, and emotional anthology of classical and contemporary poems that invit… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
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20. Vinegar Hill: Poems

By: Colm Tóibín

3.51

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry e… read more

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Cover of The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry by Maria Popova

21. The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry

By: Maria Popova

4.47

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

The Universe in Verse is an ode to wonder and an exploration of the human search for truth and mean… read more

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5 Best poetry books like Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems by Misha Collins

Transform Your Habits

Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

Amanda Lovelace

3.82

Transform Your Habits

healing for no one but me

Jennae Cecelia

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems

Misha Collins

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Truth of You: Poetry About Love, Life, Joy, and Sadness (The Souls Trilogy)

Iain S. Thomas

4.05

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