8 Best lgbt books like Vinegar Hill: Poems by Colm Tóibín

Cover of Vinegar Hill: Poems by Colm Tóibín

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…

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Cover of Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück

1. Faithful and Virtuous Night

By: Louise Glück

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more

Similar categories in Louise Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer by Richard Rohr

2. Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

By: Richard Rohr

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

This popular and bestselling book of the renowned Franciscan challenges people to move beyond the c… read more

Similar categories in Richard Rohr's Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • nonfiction

3. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

By: Joy Harjo

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of … read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

4. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Calling a Wolf a Wolf book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

5. 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 Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

6. A Short History of Decay

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.06

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a lit… read more

Similar categories in Richard Howard's A Short History of Decay book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

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7. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more

Similar categories in Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • lgbt
Cover of The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon

8. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

Cover of Woman Without Shame: Poems by Sandra Cisneros

9. Woman Without Shame: Poems

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Musical Tables: Poems by Billy Collins

10. 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

Similar categories in Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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11. We Were the Universe

By: Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly King Parsons's We Were the Universe book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • lgbt
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"

-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe

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12. 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 Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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13. Dearly

By: Margaret Atwood

3.74

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's Dearly book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

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14. Love and Other Poems

By: Alex Dimitrov

4.10

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin… read more

Similar categories in Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
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15. 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 Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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16. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

By: Louise Kennedy

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more

Similar categories in Louise Kennedy's The End of the World is a Cul de Sac book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • ireland
  • irish literature
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17. 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 Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: 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

Cover of You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limon

18. 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

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Brute: Poems by Emily Skaja

19. Brute: Poems

By: Emily Skaja

4.03

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more

Similar categories in Emily Skaja's Brute: Poems book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
"unfull but full of loathing"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"I know what to do with the dark."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

Cover of Turn Up the Ocean: Poems by Tony Hoagland

20. Turn Up the Ocean: Poems

By: Tony Hoagland

4.31

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The final book of poems by Tony Hoagland, “one of the most distinctive voices of our time” (Carl De… read more

Similar categories in Tony Hoagland's Turn Up the Ocean: Poems book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of No Land in Sight: Poems by Charles Simic

21. No Land in Sight: Poems

By: Charles Simic

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From one of America's most beloved poets, a piercing new collection reflecting on the characters an… read more

Similar categories in Charles Simic's No Land in Sight: Poems book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Honey by Victor Lodato

22. Honey

By: Victor Lodato

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean… read more

Similar categories in Victor Lodato's Honey book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • lgbt
Cover of In the Lateness of the World: Poems by Carolyn Forché

23. In the Lateness of the World: Poems

By: Carolyn Forché

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A new poetry collection of uncanny grace and moral force from one of our country's most celebrated … read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Forché's In the Lateness of the World: Poems book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"This life is not the same as your other life."

-Carolyn Forché, In the Lateness of the World: Poems

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24. Gay Girl Prayers

By: Emily R. Austin

4.10

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Gay Girl Prayers book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Hum by Helen          Phillips

25. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

Cover of Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

26. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

Cover of Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems by Ama Asantewa Diaka

27. Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems

By: Ama Asantewa Diaka

3.82

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it mea… read more

Similar categories in Ama Asantewa Diaka's Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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28. 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

Similar categories in The Academy of American Poets's 100 Poems That Matter book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Vinegar Hill: Poems by Colm Tóibín

29. 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

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Most by Jessica  Anthony

30. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Anthony's The Most book and Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

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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 Colm Tóibín's Vinegar Hill: Poems

  • lgbt

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Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

Richard Rohr

4.53

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The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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Woman Without Shame: Poems

Sandra Cisneros

4.11

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Musical Tables: Poems

Billy Collins

3.79

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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Hisham Matar

4.34

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Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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