19 Best poetry books like Teeter (Nightboat Books) by Kimberly Alidio

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Teeter (Nightboat Books)

By: Kimberly Alidio

4.21

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An autohistoriography of felt time that arises from subversive hearing practices and the emotional …

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1. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

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  • poetry
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2. About Looking

By: John Berger

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence an… read more

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3. 7 Greeks

By: Guy Davenport

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Here is a colorful variety pf works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth… read more

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4. TENDER DATA

By: Monica McClure

3.71

Format: 498 pages,

In Tender DataMonica McClure breaks down and breaks into various identities, each of them hashtagge… read more

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5. Little Men

By: Kevin Killian

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This book is a collection of prose pieces, the line between fact and fancy, between actuality and i… read more

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6. Zong!

By: Marlene NourbeSe Philip , Setaey Adamu Boateng

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by… read more

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7. The Performance of Becoming Human

By: Daniel Borzutzky

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2016 National Book Award in Poetry. Daniel Borzutzky's new collection of poetry, The … read more

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8. 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
  • lgbt
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9. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • poetry
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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10. 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

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  • poetry
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11. The Lights: Poems

By: Ben Lerner

3.84

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more

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  • poetry
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12. Laura's Desires

By: Laura Henriksen

4.68

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Laura’s Desires is a diptych of two formally distinct long poems, each approaching various pop-cult… read more

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  • poetry
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13. Cartoons

By: Kit Schluter

4.07

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka, Cartoons is an explosive series of ou… read more

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14. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

By: T. Fleischmann

4.01

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

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15. Spectral Evidence: Poems

By: Gregory Pardlo

4.11

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-win… read more

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  • poetry
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16. Hydra Medusa

By: Brandon Shimoda

4.45

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

​A book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in t… read more

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  • poetry
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17. stemmy things

By: imogen xtian Smith

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy This flirty … read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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18. Don't Leave Me This Way

By: Eric Sneathen

4.55

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A textual and historigraphical odyssey imbued with queer intergenerational yearning and loss. Don’… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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19. In Lieu of Solutions

By: Violet Spurlock

4.80

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

None read more

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20. Teeter (Nightboat Books)

By: Kimberly Alidio

4.21

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An autohistoriography of felt time that arises from subversive hearing practices and the emotional … read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
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21. Pink Noise

By: Kevin Holden

4.58

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A book of prismatic, lyrical poems that enhance and disrupt the pastoral tradition to consider orga… read more

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  • poetry
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22. MyOTHER TONGUE

By: Rosa Alcalá

4.15

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
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23. Perennial Fashion Presence Falling

By: Fred Moten

4.40

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

“some ekphrastic evening, this’ll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that… read more

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  • poetry
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24. The Dogs

By: Noah Ross

4.83

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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25. Bedroom Vowel

By: Zoe Tuck

4.93

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Consisting of lyric love letters to friends and musings on daily desire, nostalgia, and thirst for … read more

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  • poetry
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26. Gay Heaven Is A Dance Floor but I Can't Relax

By: charles theonia

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The breakout poetry collection in a multiform, poetic conversation between queer and trans artists … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Joy is my Hotel: The Poems of Raimbaut d'Aurenga by Raimbaut d'Aurenga

27. Joy is my Hotel: The Poems of Raimbaut d'Aurenga

By: Raimbaut d'Aurenga

5.00

Format: 125 pages, ebook

None read more

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28. The Gone Thing

By: Monica McClure

4.58

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Monica McClure's second poetry collection excavates inheritances--historical, cultural, familial, a… read more

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  • poetry
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29. More Gone (City Lights Spotlight, No. 18)

By: Edmund Berrigan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A scion of the New York School, Edmund Berrigan grew up in and around poetry. More Gone , number 18… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Weirding

By: Lindsey Boldt

4.79

Format: 99 pages, None

In WEIRDING, Lindsey Boldt invites the reader into bewilderment--to travel with her across states o… read more

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31. Zeroes Were Hollow

By: David Larsen

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

A second book of poetry from the emerging translator and language artist. There is a tradition of d… read more

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5 must-read lgbt books like Teeter (Nightboat Books) by Kimberly Alidio

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Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

T. Fleischmann

4.01

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imogen xtian Smith

4.17

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Don't Leave Me This Way

Eric Sneathen

4.55

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28 Top poetry books like Pink Noise by Kevin Holden

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The Bridge

Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler

4.08

Penury

Myung Mi Kim

3.79

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Black Girl, Call Home

Jasmine Mans

4.44

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Terese Marie Mailhot

3.84

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