5 must-read poetry books like Invitación al polvo by Manuel Ramos Otero

Cover of Invitación al polvo by Manuel Ramos Otero

Invitación al polvo

By: Manuel Ramos Otero

4.48

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Spanish

If you liked the poetry plot in Invitación al polvo by Manuel Ramos Otero , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more

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"I'm having a crisis of function."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"None of us will make it to the end."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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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

Cover of Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico by Christine Ayorinde, Guillermo A. Baralt

3. Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico

By: Christine Ayorinde , Guillermo A. Baralt

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

From the emergence of the first sugar plantations up until 1873, when slavery was abolished, the we… read more

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4. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

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5. 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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6. Our Share of Night

By: Mariana Enríquez

4.28

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more

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"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

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7. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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8. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

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"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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9. In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more

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"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Cover of antes que isla es volcán / before island is volcano: poemas / poems by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

10. antes que isla es volcán / before island is volcano: poemas / poems

By: Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

4.26

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

From the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet: a powerful, inventive new collec… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein

11. The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

By: Naomi Klein

4.23

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfoldin… read more

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12. Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine

By: Mohammad Sabaaneh

4.55

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What does freedom look like from inside an Israeli prison? The walls of the cell are etched with… read more

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13. Gorda desobediente

By: Leuryck Valentín

4.62

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Gorda desobediente es un libro valiente y revolucionario que desafía los estereotipos de belleza y … read more

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14. Invitación al polvo

By: Manuel Ramos Otero

4.48

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Spanish read more

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  • spanish literature
  • poetry

15. Flora animal

By: Ana Teresa Toro

4.52

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Flora animal es el título del nuevo libro de poesía de la escritora y periodista Ana Teresa Toro. … read more

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  • poetry
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16. Velorio

By: Xavier Navarro Aquino

3.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Featured on NPR's WEEKEND EDITION Set in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Xavier Navarro Aquino's un… read more

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"Everyone now links hands and sways from side to side like the waves kissing the shore."

-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

"I am naked, and the moon is me and I am it since no one is there with us, we're married and the same"."

-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

"When we returned to memoria, the clouds were still thick overhead, pregnant with rain but unwilling to release"."

-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

"It is time for you to return to God, goliflón. It is time we send you off because you are a puppet stuffed and made to guard, that is your use"."

-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

Cover of Aterrizar no es regreso (Spanish Edition) by Xavier Valcárcel

17. Aterrizar no es regreso (Spanish Edition)

By: Xavier Valcárcel

4.53

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

En esta crónica Xavier Valcárcel nos relata su experiencia tras el huracán María y el difícil acopl… read more

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18. Helio

By: Xavier Valcárcel

4.82

Format: 43 pages, Paperback

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