12 best-selling poetry books like 31 Letters and 13 Dreams (Poems) by Richard Hugo

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31 Letters and 13 Dreams (Poems)

By: Richard Hugo

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Richard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer has called” one of the most passionate, energetic, and honest poet…

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1. The Bridge

By: Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler

4.08

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America. B… read more

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"O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God."

-Hart Crane, The Bridge

"O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits The agile precincts of the lark’s return; Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing In single chrysalis the many twain — Of stars Thou art the stitch and…"

-Hart Crane, The Bridge

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2. The Orchard

By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly

3.86

Format: 445 pages, Paperback

Richly allusive, the poems in Brigit Pegeen Kelly's The Orchard evoke elements of myth in distincti… read more

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3. Dancing in Odessa

By: Ilya Kaminsky

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky … read more

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4. The Branch Will Not Break

By: James Wright

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

'These poems are splendidly direct, magnificently simple; sometimes the phrasing is so elegantly ob… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Letters To Yesenin

By: Jim Harrison

4.04

Format: 368 pages, ebook

"The way Harrison has embedded his entire vision of our predicament implicitly in the particulars o… read more

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  • poetry
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6. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

By: Jean Valentine

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Since the 1965 publication of her first book, Dream Barker, selected for the Yale Younger Poets Awa… read more

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  • poetry
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7. Tristessa

By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac

4.33

Format: 308 pages,

Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young wo… read more

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  • literature
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8. Provinces of Night

By: William Gay

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more

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9. Hotel Insomnia

By: Charles Simic

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeterie… read more

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10. The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994

By: Jorie Graham

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

The 1996 Pulitzer winner in poetry and a major collection, Jorie Graham's The Dream of the United F… read more

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11. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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12. The Incognito Lounge

By: Denis Johnson

4.43

Format: 250 pages,

Raymond Carver said of The Incognito Lounge, Denis Johnson's third and most widely acclaimed book o… read more

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13. Ashes: Poems New & Old

By: Philip Levine

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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14. Refusing Heaven

By: Jack Gilbert

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

More than a decade after Jack Gilbert's The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection sho… read more

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15. The World Doesn't End

By: Charles Simic

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be … read more

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16. 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

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

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

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

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

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-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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17. 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
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18. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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19. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

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  • poetry
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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20. 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

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"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

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21. Best Barbarian: Poems

By: Roger Reeves

4.10

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more

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22. Speak Low

By: Carl Phillips

4.04

Format: 68 pages, Hardcover

Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive―and one of poetry's most essenti… read more

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23. 31 Letters and 13 Dreams (Poems)

By: Richard Hugo

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Richard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer has called” one of the most passionate, energetic, and honest poet… read more

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6 must-read literature books like 31 Letters and 13 Dreams (Poems) by Richard Hugo

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The Bridge

Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler

4.08

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The Branch Will Not Break

James Wright

3.45

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Letters To Yesenin

Jim Harrison

4.04

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Tristessa

Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac

4.33

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Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

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By Night in Chile

Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

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frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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Blackouts

Justin Torres

3.77

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