16 must-read poetry books like Repetition Nineteen / Replay by Mónica de la Torre

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Repetition Nineteen / Replay

By: Mónica de la Torre

4.48

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

At the heart of Repetition Nineteen are twenty-five unreliable translations of a poem in Mónica de …

If you liked the poetry plot in Repetition Nineteen / Replay by Mónica de la Torre , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Pigeon

By: Patrick Süskind

3.71

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick… read more

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"من تعويض البطالة وحده لا يمكن للمرء أن يعيش."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

"لم يكن يتخيل أن يحدث له في حياته أي شيء ذات أهمية ما عدا موته."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

"أراد أن يصرخ بجملة أنه لا يستطيع الحياة دون الناس الآخرين في وجه السكون، إلى هذا المدى بلغت حاجته."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

"كيف يمكن لهذا المرء الذي تجاوز الخمسين من عمره أن يبقى على قيد الحياة حتى الآن؟ بطريقة حياته المستهترة هذه."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

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2. 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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3. Meditations in an Emergency

By: Frank O'Hara

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclai… read more

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4. Dance Dance Revolution

By: Cathy Park Hong

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"The Guide" is a former South Korean dissident and tour guide who speaks a fluid fabricated languag… read more

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5. Whereas

By: Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more

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6. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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7. Antígona González

By: Sara Uribe

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

"Esta es la busqueda de un cuerpo, de uno de tantos cuerpos perdidos en esta larga guerra en Mexico… read more

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8. Absalom, Absalom!

By: William Faulkner

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more

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9. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more

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10. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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11. The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa

By: Sawako Nakayasu , Chika Sagawa

3.91

Format: None pages,

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu. The first … read more

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12. Almost a Woman

By: Esmeralda Santiago

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"Not only for readers who share [Santiago's] experiences but for North Americans who seek to unders… read more

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13. 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

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14. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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15. Pnin

By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more

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16. The Bird is a Raven: A Novel

By: Peter Constantine , Benjamin Lebert

3.71

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

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17. Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

By: Eva Hoffman

3.71

Format: 32 pages,

This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and … read more

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18. 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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19. Tentacle

By: Rita Indiana

3.58

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa … read more

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20. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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21. 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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22. Foreign Bodies: Poems

By: Kimiko Hahn

3.67

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A NPR Best Book of 2020 Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson’s collection of ing… read more

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23. Ghost Of

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

4.36

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more

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24. Root Fractures: Poems

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s… read more

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25. I Love Information: Poems

By: Courtney Bush

3.94

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

I Love Information , selected by Brian Teare as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a s… read more

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26. Plans for Sentences

By: Renee Gladman

4.29

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"These sentences―they―will begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark t… read more

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27. Repetition Nineteen / Replay

By: Mónica de la Torre

4.48

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

At the heart of Repetition Nineteen are twenty-five unreliable translations of a poem in Mónica de … read more

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28. Mouth: Eats Color -- Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals

By: Sawako Nakayasu

4.23

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Poetry, Translation. Ten poems by Sagawa Chika are conveyed into English and other languages throug… read more

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29. while they sleep (under the bed is another country)

By: Raquel Salas Rivera

4.36

Format: None pages, None

while they sleep (under the bed is another country) refuses to sweep up the shards of Hurricane Mar… read more

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30. Path of Totality: Poems

By: Niina Pollari

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Exploring the sudden loss of her child, the hope that precedes this crisis, and the suffering that … read more

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31. Kitchen Table Translation: An Aster(ix) Anthology

By: Madhu H. Kaza

4.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Kitchen Table Translation issue of Aster(ix) Journal explores connections between translation a… read more

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20 must-read fiction books like Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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Miranda July

3.81

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4.15

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