5 Top canada books like The Caiplie Caves: Poems by Karen Solie

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The Caiplie Caves: Poems

By: Karen Solie

4.02

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Karen Solie’s striking fifth collection of poetry blends the story of a seve…

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1. 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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2. Cane

By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more

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  • poetry
"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"

-Jean Toomer, Cane

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3. The Descent of Alette

By: Alice Notley

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In "The Descent of Alette," Alice Notley presents a feminist epic, a bold journey into the deeper r… read more

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  • poetry
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4. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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  • poetry

6. Hard Child

By: Natalie Shapero

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent aba… read more

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  • poetry
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7. 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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8. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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9. The Loved One

By: Evelyn Waugh

3.76

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter… read more

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"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

"Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood."

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

"What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh."

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

10. The Day of the Triffids

By: John Wyndham

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more

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11. The Drowned World

By: Martin Amis , J.G. Ballard

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terr… read more

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12. Deep Lane: Poems

By: Mark Doty

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor, an ability to find transcenden… read more

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13. 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

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

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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

-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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14. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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  • poetry
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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15. 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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16. The Books of Jacob

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.02

Format: 965 pages, Hardcover

The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more

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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

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17. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.06

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more

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  • poetry
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"

-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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18. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

By: Paul Tran

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more

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  • poetry
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

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19. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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  • poetry
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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20. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)

By: Rio Cortez

4.02

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more

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  • poetry
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21. Motherhood

By: Sheila Heti

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more

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  • canada
"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

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22. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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23. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
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24. Sight Lines

By: Arthur Sze

3.85

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning tenth collection Sight Lines, Arthur Sze lends the reader his pr… read more

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  • poetry
"the world of being is like this gravel: you think you own a car, a house, this blue-zigzagged shirt, but you just borrow these things. Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams and stood at Gi…"

-Arthur Sze, Sight Lines

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25. Love and Other Poems

By: Alex Dimitrov

4.10

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin… read more

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  • poetry
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26. Best Barbarian: Poems

By: Roger Reeves

4.10

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more

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27. Whale Day: And Other Poems

By: Billy Collins

4.08

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

A collection of all-new poetry from former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Billy Collins's thir… read more

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  • poetry
"But having sailed some time ago Into the quiet cardigan harbour of my life,"

-Billy Collins, Whale Day: And Other Poems

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28. Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century

By: Kate Molleson

4.38

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundament… read more

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29. The Caiplie Caves: Poems

By: Karen Solie

4.02

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Karen Solie’s striking fifth collection of poetry blends the story of a seve… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
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30. The Big Melt

By: Emily Riddle

4.57

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The Big Melt is a debut poetry collection rooted in nehiyaw thought and urban millennial life event… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
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31. Trinity Street: Poems

By: Jen Currin

4.00

Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition

Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fift… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada

20 best-selling poetry books like The Caiplie Caves: Poems by Karen Solie

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Cane

Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Descent of Alette

Alice Notley

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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Girls That Never Die: Poems

Safia Elhillo

4.30

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All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

Paul Tran

3.87

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