12 best-selling poetry books like Poemas by Emily Dickinson

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Poemas

By: Emily Dickinson

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Una antología de los poemas de Emily Dickinson, a cargo de Silvina Ocampo Enigmática y retraída, p…

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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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"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. Ararat

By: Louise Glück

4.12

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Louise Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry … read more

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"To say I’m without fear– it wouldn’t be true. I’m afraid of sickness, humiliation. Like anyone, I have my dreams. But I’ve learned to hide them, to protect myself from fulfillment: all happiness attr…"

-Louise Glück, Ararat

"As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to …"

-Louise Glück, Ararat

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3. 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

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4. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

By: Lorrie Moore

3.83

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America we share a grown woman… read more

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"What the fuck, babe."

-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

"I feel his lack of love for me."

-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

"They looked like frogs who’d been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs."

-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

"It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe."

-Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

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5. Baluarte

By: Elvira Sastre

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Elvira Sastre se define a si misma como "resistente de lo imposible y sonadora de lo ingenuo". Voce… read more

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  • poetry
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6. Cronopios and Famas

By: Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected i… read more

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7. Prosa completa

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu

2.74

Format: None pages,

En el prologo a esta Prosa completa de la mitica poeta argentina Alejandra Pizarnik, Ana Nuno nos h… read more

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8. Poesía completa

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu

2.74

Format: None pages,

Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more

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9. Regarde les lumières mon amour

By: Annie Ernaux

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

Pendant un an, Annie Ernaux a tenu le journal de ses visites a l'hypermarche Auchan du centre comme… read more

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10. Bestiario

By: Julio Cortázar

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful underto… read more

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11. L'altra figlia

By: Annie Ernaux , Lorenzo Flabbi

3.95

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In un’assolata domenica d’estate una bambina ascolta per caso una conversazione della madre, e la s… read more

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12. Los jefes y Los cachorros

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

Los Jefes y Los cachorros sirvieron como antecedente, para la construccion de las obras de Vargas L… read more

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13. Shame

By: Annie Ernaux

3.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more

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"People are forever remembering."

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

"We have no true memory of ourselves."

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

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14. Happening

By: Annie Ernaux

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more

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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

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15. A Woman's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more

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"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

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16. 呪術廻戦 4 [Jujutsu Kaisen 4]

By: Gege Akutami

4.55

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

呪いによる殺人事件を追う虎杖は、現場にいた順平と出会い、意気投合。だが順平は事件の犯人である呪霊・真人に心酔していた。真人はそんな順平を利用し、虎杖と戦わせようと画策。その術中に落ちる順平だが…。 read more

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"Prima di vincere il tuo nemico, vinci la tua mente"

-Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 4 [Jujutsu Kaisen 4]

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17. 呪術廻戦 6 [Jujutsu Kaisen 6]

By: Gege Akutami

4.52

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

交流会に乗じ虎杖を狙う京都組。そこへ真人率いる呪霊と呪詛師が乱入する。生徒救出に向かう教師陣だが、敵の“帳"により分断され…!? 特級呪霊・花御に襲われた狗巻と伏黒は、危機を脱する事が出来るのか!? read more

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18. Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 5

By: Gege Akutami

4.47

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared … read more

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"Sembra che tu abbia dovuto affrontare molta sofferenza, Mechamaru... ma soffrire non ti fa passare dalla parte del giusto."

-Gege Akutami, Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 5

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19. Las voladoras

By: Mónica Ojeda

3.95

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Mónica Ojeda se ha convertido en una de las voces más exitosas y leídas de la nueva generación lite… read more

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"Cuando uno está arriba piensa que ver bien será difícil, pero no es verdad. Ves nítidamente lo que eres y lo que son los otros, que abajo todo es pequeño y miserable y que de allí provienes. Ese es e…"

-Mónica Ojeda, Las voladoras

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20. El peligro de la historia única

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.21

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

La TED talk más popular de Chimamanda, con más de doce millones de reproducciones. «Las historias i… read more

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"Así es como se crea una historia única, se muestra a un pueblo solo como una cosa, una única cosa, una y otra vez, y al final lo conviertes en eso."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, El peligro de la historia única

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21. Grass

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.52

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s live… read more

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"Frágiles ramas que tiemblan en las postrimerías del largo invierno. Dentro albergan la energía de una vida nueva que pronto brotará y abrirá grietas en la corteza La tierra despertará de su hibernaci…"

-Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass

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22. Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

By: Alba Donati

3.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recount… read more

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"A Lucignana non abbiamo regine ma fate si, molte."

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

"How did I get the idea? Ideas don't just spring out of nothing - they smoulder, ferment, crowd our mind while we sleep. Ideas walk on their own two legs, follow their own parallel path in part of us …"

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

"Cit. p.81 "I fiori come noi pensano, intuiscono la via più semplice, evitano percorsi difficili. e lottano, hanno spiriti rivoluzionari. ... Penso alla povera erba medica che ripone dentro leggere sp…"

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

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23. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more

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"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

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24. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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25. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver

4.58

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more

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"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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26. The Houseguest and Other Stories

By: Amparo Dávila

3.65

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka,… read more

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"The daily exercise of suffering gives one the gaze of an abandoned dog and the colour of a ghost. - Fragment of a Diary [July to August] "

-Amparo Dávila, The Houseguest and Other Stories

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27. La fragilidad de un corazón bajo la lluvia

By: Maria Martinez

4.15

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

¿Y si tuvieras que perderlo todo para darte cuenta de que no tenías nada? ¿Si la única forma de re… read more

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"Hay dos tipos de ciegos. Uno es el que no puede ver, y el otro es el que no quiere. El primero es inevitable. El segundo es incomprensible."

-Maria Martinez, La fragilidad de un corazón bajo la lluvia

"Hay momentos que definen nuestras vidas y otros que las dividen. Acontecimientos que nos transforman en dos personas diferentes: las que éramos antes y aquella en la que nos convertimos después"

-Maria Martinez, La fragilidad de un corazón bajo la lluvia

"Y entonces surgía la esperanza que tanto miedo me daba. Las posibilidades. Los sueños. Porque los deseos son como pompas de jabón, bonitas mientras flotan en el aire, ascendiendo suavemente, reflejan…"

-Maria Martinez, La fragilidad de un corazón bajo la lluvia

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28. No creo poder tocar el cielo con las manos

By: Sappho

3.97

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

Considerada la «Décima Musa» por Platón, los fragmentos conservados de la obra de Safo son escasos … read more

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"Vi a una chica delicada que cogía flores Dormida sobre el pecho de la amiga delicada"

-Sappho, No creo poder tocar el cielo con las manos

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29. He leído que no mueren las almas

By: Anna Akhmatova

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

La obra de Anna Ajmátova (1889-1966), prohibida durante muchos años en Rusia, es uno de los princip… read more

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30. Poemas

By: Emily Dickinson

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Una antología de los poemas de Emily Dickinson, a cargo de Silvina Ocampo Enigmática y retraída, p… read more

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  • poetry
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31. El arte de perder

By: Elizabeth Bishop

3.35

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Heredera natural de Whitman y Dickinson, Bishop fue una figura desconocida durante años. Detrás de … read more

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  • poetry

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4.52

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