15 best-selling poetry books like Commons by Myung Mi Kim

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Commons

By: Myung Mi Kim

4.16

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Myung Mi Kim's Commons weighs on the most sensitive of scales the minute grains of daily life in bo…

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1. 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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2. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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3. Song of Solomon

By: Toni Morrison

4.14

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more

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  • american
"Her passions were narrow but deep."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"He can't value you more than you value yourself."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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4. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith

4.10

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more

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  • poetry
"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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5. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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  • poetry
"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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6. Aesthetic Theory

By: Theodor W. Adorno , Robert Hullot-Kentor

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in En… read more

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"Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it."

-Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

"The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art."

-Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

"If in keeping with Hegel’s insight all feeling related to an aesthetic object has an accidental aspect, usually that of psychological projection, then what the work demands from its beholder is knowl…"

-Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

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7. Maurice

By: E.M. Forster

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more

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8. Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva

By: Marina Tsvetaeva , Jean Valentine , Ilya Kaminsky

4.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
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9. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

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  • poetry
"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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10. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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11. 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
  • read for school
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12. Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more

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  • poetry

13. Tropic of Orange

By: Karen Tei Yamashita

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This fiercely satirical, semifantastical novel ... features an Asian-American television news execu… read more

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  • american
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14. Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more

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  • poetry
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15. 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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  • poetry
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16. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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17. Tender Buttons

By: Gertrude Stein

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated… read more

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18. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

19. Against Interpretation and Other Essays

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more

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20. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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21. Dictee

By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more

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22. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

By: Machado de Assis

4.25

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A publicação de 'Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas' não só inaugura o Realismo no Brasil, como inicia… read more

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"Quem escapa do perigo vive a vida com outra intensidade."

-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

"Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas."

-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

"Diz que o homem tem “uma grande vantagem sobre o resto do universo: sabe que morre, ao passo que o universo ignora-o absolutamente"

-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

"هر دوره زندگی چاپ جدیدی است که چاپ قبلی را تصحیح می‌کند و خودش هم در چاپ بعدی تصحیح می‌شود، تا برسد به چاپ متن نهایی که ناشر به کرم ها تقدیم میکندش."

-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

23. Politics

By: Aristotle

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more

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24. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

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25. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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26. Barbie Chang

By: Victoria Chang

4.15

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Barbie’s cultural artifice is unmasked by Victoria Chang’s imagination, lifting the struggle of Asi… read more

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  • poetry
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27. 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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28. DMZ Colony

By: Don Mee Choi

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of… read more

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  • poetry
"It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving. So it's most likely that the decision, seemingly all mine, was already made years …"

-Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony

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29. Be Recorder: Poems

By: Carmen Giménez

3.95

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Carmen Giménez Smith dares to demand renewal for a world made unrecognizable Be Recorder offers … read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • read for school
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30. The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

By: Yanyi .

4.25

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize “Weaves together descriptions of experienc… read more

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  • poetry
"It's not always true that when someone disappears, they never come back, even if that has been my experience."

-Yanyi ., The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

"Here's what it's like if it's hard to put yourself first: you genuinely feel happiness when someone else's needs are fulfilled. At least, that is what you know as happiness: the relief of not being s…"

-Yanyi ., The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

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31. Commons

By: Myung Mi Kim

4.16

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Myung Mi Kim's Commons weighs on the most sensitive of scales the minute grains of daily life in bo… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • read for school

27 must-read poetry books like The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Yanyi .

Transform Your Habits

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Look

Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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