20 best-selling poetry books like Decade of the Brain by Janine Joseph

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Decade of the Brain

By: Janine Joseph

3.88

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

In the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American ci…

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1. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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2. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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3. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

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4. From From: Poems

By: Monica Youn

4.18

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

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"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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6. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

By: T Kira Madden

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age … read more

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"If there are real men, I haven't met them yet."

-T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

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7. Trace Evidence: Poems

By: Charif Shanahan

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more

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  • poetry
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8. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

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  • poetry
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9. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

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  • poetry
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

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10. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive

By: Katie Farris

4.31

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more

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  • poetry
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11. Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl

By: Diane Seuss

4.41

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry… read more

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  • poetry
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12. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

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13. Hotel Oblivion

By: Cynthia Cruz

4.16

Format: 110 pages, ebook

A specter, haunting the edges of society: because neoliberalism insists there are no social classes… read more

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  • poetry
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14. A History of Half-Birds: Poems (Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry)

By: Caroline Harper New

4.41

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poem… read more

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  • poetry
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15. Curb

By: Divya Victor

4.37

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Curb maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unackno… read more

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  • poetry
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16. Bianca (Stahlecker Selections)

By: Eugenia Leigh

4.65

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

“I thought I forgave you,” Eugenia Leigh tells the specter of her father in Bianca. “Then I took ro… read more

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17. Decade of the Brain

By: Janine Joseph

3.88

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

In the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American ci… read more

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18. I Am the Most Dangerous Thing

By: Candace Williams

4.38

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Over the course of these poems, the Black, queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and… read more

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  • poetry
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19. Cloud Missives

By: Kenzie Allen

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Each poem examines a mystery. Each poem has its own Indigeneity. Each poem is its own cloud missive… read more

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20. Burning Like Her Own Planet

By: Vandana Khanna

4.13

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Against the backdrop of iconic, ancient Hindu texts, Burning Like Her Own Planet reimagines the liv… read more

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  • poetry
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21. I Don't Want To Be Understood

By: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

4.52

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

A transsexual woman pieces together fragmented details of a repressive religious childhood and an u… read more

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6 best-selling fiction books like Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Judas Goat: Poems

Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Soft Science

Franny Choi

3.93

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