12 must-read poetry books like Calligraphies: Poems by Marilyn Hacker

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Calligraphies: Poems

By: Marilyn Hacker

4.23

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A formally brilliant and powerful volume from “one of the most extraordinary innovative poets writi…

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1. The White Album

By: Joan Didion

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more

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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"

-Joan Didion, The White Album

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2. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's Things I Don't Want to Know book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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3. Electric Arches

By: Eve L. Ewing

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visua… read more

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4. Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems

By: Brenda Shaughnessy

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Next Illogical Step In Love Poetry "The next illogical step in love poetry The most inscrutabl… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Shaughnessy's Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

5. 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

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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6. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (The Passenger #1) book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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7. 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 Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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8. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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9. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Night Watch book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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10. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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11. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

Similar categories in Olga Ravn's The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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12. 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

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Time Is a Mother book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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13. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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14. The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's The Puppets of Spelhorst book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst

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15. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

Similar categories in Paul Harding's This Other Eden book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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16. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

Similar categories in Maylis de Kerangal's Eastbound book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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17. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Roaming book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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18. The Friend

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.77

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her do… read more

Similar categories in Sigrid Nunez's The Friend book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it."

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

"There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

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19. 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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"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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20. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

By: Deborah Levy

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

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21. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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22. Second Place

By: Rachel Cusk

3.68

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Second Place book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

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23. On Women

By: Susan Sontag

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more

Similar categories in Susan Sontag's On Women book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"

-Susan Sontag, On Women

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24. 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 Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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25. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

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Cover of Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays by Elisa Gabbert

26. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

Similar categories in Elisa Gabbert's Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

Cover of Tanya: Poems by Brenda Shaughnessy

27. Tanya: Poems

By: Brenda Shaughnessy

4.10

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning poet weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays t… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Shaughnessy's Tanya: Poems book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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Cover of Calligraphies: Poems by Marilyn Hacker

28. Calligraphies: Poems

By: Marilyn Hacker

4.23

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A formally brilliant and powerful volume from “one of the most extraordinary innovative poets writi… read more

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Cover of Chrome Valley: Poems by Mahogany L. Browne

29. Chrome Valley: Poems

By: Mahogany L. Browne

4.16

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne’s Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait… read more

Similar categories in Mahogany L. Browne's Chrome Valley: Poems book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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"you ain’t had freedom / ’til you climb on bus 62 / & head to the closest mall / for a good seat at the girl fight."

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

"give me my mother’s bone structure / & her gap tooth slaughter / give me her spine—Redbone got a spine for the world."

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

Cover of I'm Always so Serious by Karisma Price

30. I'm Always so Serious

By: Karisma Price

4.31

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

 " I’m Always so Serious  is brilliant.”   —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for  … read more

Similar categories in Karisma Price's I'm Always so Serious book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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Cover of What You Want: Poems by Maureen N. McLane

31. What You Want: Poems

By: Maureen N. McLane

3.53

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist Maureen N. McLane stuns with a precise, perceptive book of poetic medi… read more

Similar categories in Maureen N. McLane's What You Want: Poems book and Marilyn Hacker's Calligraphies: Poems

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