16 best-selling poetry books like The History of Anonymity: Poems by Jennifer Chang

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The History of Anonymity: Poems

By: Jennifer Chang

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This debut collection of vivid, lyrical poems explores the emotional landscape of childhood without…

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1. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • womens
  • poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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2. 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

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  • 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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3. Here, Bullet

By: Brian Turner

4.16

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award.… read more

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  • poetry
"...because here, Bullet, here is where the world ends, every time."

-Brian Turner, Here, Bullet

"Believe it when you see it. Believe it when a twelve-year-old rolls a grenade into the room."

-Brian Turner, Here, Bullet

"Has this year made me a better lover? Will I understand something of hardship, of loss, will a lover sense this in my kiss or touch? What do I know of redemption or sacrifice, what will I have to say…"

-Brian Turner, Here, Bullet

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4. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Elegy On Toy Piano

By: Dean Young

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goo… read more

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  • poetry

6. The January Children

By: Kwame Dawes , Safia Elhillo

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan unde… read more

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7. Sight Map

By: Brian Teare

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In Sight Map Brian Teare blends the speculative poetics of the San Francisco Renaissance with a pos… read more

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8. 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
Cover of Pilgrim Bell: Poems by Kaveh Akbar

9. 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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  • poetry
"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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10. 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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11. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

By: Cathy Park Hong

4.21

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more

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"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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12. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Customs: Poems by Solmaz Sharif

13. 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

Similar categories in Solmaz Sharif's Customs: Poems book and Jennifer Chang's The History of Anonymity: Poems

  • womens
  • poetry
Cover of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything by Jane Wong

14. How to Not Be Afraid of Everything

By: Jane Wong

4.21

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma a… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems by Valzhyna Mort

15. Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems

By: Valzhyna Mort

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New Yor… read more

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  • womens
  • poetry
Cover of Dream of the Divided Field: Poems by Yanyi .

16. Dream of the Divided Field: Poems

By: Yanyi .

3.75

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercin… read more

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  • poetry
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17. 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
Cover of The History of Anonymity: Poems by Jennifer Chang

18. The History of Anonymity: Poems

By: Jennifer Chang

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This debut collection of vivid, lyrical poems explores the emotional landscape of childhood without… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Chang's The History of Anonymity: Poems book and Jennifer Chang's The History of Anonymity: Poems

  • womens
  • poetry
Cover of Conversation Among Stones by Willie Lin

19. Conversation Among Stones

By: Willie Lin

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Awakening to histories personal and social, Conversation Among Stones is a meditation on memory and… read more

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  • poetry

16 Top audiobook books like Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

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4.33

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Min Jin Lee

4.33

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All You Can Ever Know

Nicole Chung

3.77

Transform Your Habits

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Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

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