14 best-selling lgbt books like Blizzard: Poems by Henri Cole

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Blizzard: Poems

By: Henri Cole

3.72

Format: 59 pages, Hardcover

Henri Cole, one of our greatest poets, explores the discordant nature of our condition on earth in …

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1. Averno

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more

Similar categories in Louise Glück's Averno book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."

-Louise Glück, Averno

"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

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2. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead: Poems book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
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3. 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

Similar categories in Tommy Pico's Nature Poem book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
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4. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

By: Anne Carson

4.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more

Similar categories in Anne Carson's The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

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5. Two Boys Kissing

By: David Levithan

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and C… read more

Similar categories in David Levithan's Two Boys Kissing book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • lgbt
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6. 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

Similar categories in Claudia Rankine's Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
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7. A Village Life

By: Louise Glück

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village,… read more

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  • poetry

8. 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

Similar categories in Ada Limon's Bright Dead Things book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

9. Suite for Barbara Loden

By: Nathalie Léger , None , Cécile Menon

4.23

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

First published in France in 2012 to critical and popular acclaim, this is the first book about the… read more

Similar categories in Nathalie Léger's Suite for Barbara Loden book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

10. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

Similar categories in Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

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11. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's The Young Man book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

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12. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more

Similar categories in Oliver Franklin-Wallis's Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

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13. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cunningham's Day book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • lgbt
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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14. 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

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
"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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15. 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

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
"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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16. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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17. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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18. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • lgbt
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19. 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

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Carrying book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
"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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20. 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

Similar categories in Clint Smith's Above Ground book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
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21. Against Silence: Poems

By: Frank Bidart

3.59

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and “one… read more

Similar categories in Frank Bidart's Against Silence: Poems book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
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22. 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

Similar categories in Misha Collins's Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
"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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23. Trace Evidence: Poems

By: Charif Shanahan

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more

Similar categories in Charif Shanahan's Trace Evidence: Poems book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
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24. Harlem Shadows: Poems

By: Claude McKay

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance first published in 1922, this collection of poignant, lyrical… read more

Similar categories in Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows: Poems book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
"All art is the product of the entirety of an artist’s life, whether that art is biographical or confessional or neither."

-Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows: Poems

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25. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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26. Rupture Tense

By: Jenny Xie

3.91

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorke… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Xie's Rupture Tense book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
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27. We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems

By: William Evans

4.13

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Probl… read more

Similar categories in William Evans's We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
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28. Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A new collection of poems from one of America’s most e… read more

Similar categories in Carl Phillips's Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
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29. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

By: torrin a. greathouse

4.42

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more

Similar categories in torrin a. greathouse's Wound from the Mouth of a Wound book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
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30. Blizzard: Poems

By: Henri Cole

3.72

Format: 59 pages, Hardcover

Henri Cole, one of our greatest poets, explores the discordant nature of our condition on earth in … read more

Similar categories in Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
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31. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Henri Cole's Blizzard: Poems

  • lgbt

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4.18

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3.97

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3.89

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Anne Enright

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