14 Top poetry books like Prose Architectures by Renee Gladman

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Prose Architectures

By: Renee Gladman

4.61

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer—she writes that way and the dreaming seems t…

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Cover of An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec, Marc Lowenthal

1. An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris

By: Georges Perec , Marc Lowenthal

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the hu… read more

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  • poetry
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2. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

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  • poetry
"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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3. 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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  • 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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4. Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

By: Leonard Koren

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Describes the principles of wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic associated with Japanese tea ceremonies… read more

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  • poetry
  • art
Cover of In Praise of Shadows by Edward G. Seidensticker, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Thomas J. Harper, Charles Moore, None

5. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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  • art
Cover of Four Reincarnations: Poems by Max Ritvo

6. Four Reincarnations: Poems

By: Max Ritvo

3.84

Format: None pages,

Published shortly after his death in August 2016 at age 25, Max Ritvo's collection of poetry is rev… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Hass

7. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson

8. 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

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  • 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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9. Space And Place: The Perspective of Experience

By: Yi-Fu Tuan , None

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A study of the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, … read more

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10. Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

By: Lisa Robertson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, paperback

from clearcutpress.com: Poet and essayist Lisa Robertson has maintained the Office for Soft Archite… read more

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  • poetry
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11. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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  • art

12. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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13. Selected Poems

By: John Ashbery

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the early virtuosity of Some Treesand The Tennis Court Oaththrough the triumphs of the Pulitze… read more

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14. 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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15. The Rabbit Hutch

By: Tess Gunty

3.52

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more

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"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

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16. 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

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17. Mothman Apologia

By: Robert Wood Lynn

4.52

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and comi… read more

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  • poetry
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18. Four in Hand

By: Alicia Mountain

4.24

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and exper… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Prose Architectures by Renee Gladman

19. Prose Architectures

By: Renee Gladman

4.61

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer—she writes that way and the dreaming seems t… read more

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  • poetry
  • art
Cover of Divine Blue Light (For John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 63) by Will Alexander

20. Divine Blue Light (For John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 63)

By: Will Alexander

4.15

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

From Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from… read more

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  • poetry
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21. Shapeshifter

By: Alice Paalen Rahon

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Alice Paalen Rahon was a shapeshifter, a surrealist poet turned painter who was born French and die… read more

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  • poetry
  • art

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Leonard Koren

4.18

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4.75

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4.22

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