15 Top poetry books like How to Maintain Eye Contact by Robert Wood Lynn

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How to Maintain Eye Contact

By: Robert Wood Lynn

3.68

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

How to Maintain Eye Contact takes readers through a journey of uncertainty and what we make of it. …

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1. Black Movie

By: Danez Smith

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Poetry. African American Studies. These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac bi… read more

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2. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

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3. Henry Henry

By: Allen Bratton

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more

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"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."

-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry

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4. Obit

By: Victoria Chang

4.27

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more

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"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

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5. 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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6. 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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7. Toutes les princesses meurent après minuit (French Edition)

By: Quentin Zuttion

3.99

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

31 août 1997 au matin, dans un pavillon de banlieue, une mère de famille repasse le linge quand la … read more

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8. 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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9. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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10. Blue Hunger

By: Viola Di Grado

3.37

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From one of Italy's most electrifying voices, "a powerful and original writer" (Michael Cunningham)… read more

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11. 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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12. 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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"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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13. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

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14. Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

By: Rachel Wiley

3.99

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Revenge Body is a poetry collection that explores anger (righteous and not), black identity, body i… read more

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"water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle"

-Rachel Wiley, Revenge Body (Button Poetry)

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15. Sweet, Young, & Worried

By: Blythe Baird

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This… read more

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16. Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118)

By: Cindy Juyoung Ok

4.37

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation   “The… read more

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17. Butcher

By: Natasha T. Miller

4.16

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Butcher is a book about love & loss — about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha… read more

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18. Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom (Button Poetry)

By: Azura Tyabji

3.82

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom is a crossover of our coming of age universes. Explorin… read more

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19. How to Maintain Eye Contact

By: Robert Wood Lynn

3.68

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

How to Maintain Eye Contact takes readers through a journey of uncertainty and what we make of it. … read more

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20. Birthright

By: George Abraham

4.55

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Birthright is a book that balances the weight of place. The pride and shame and worth of homeland. … read more

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21. Composition

By: Junious Ward

4.18

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In his debut full length collection, Junious ‘Jay’ Ward dives deep into the formation of self. Comp… read more

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16 best-selling poetry books like Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom (Button Poetry) by Azura Tyabji

Transform Your Habits

Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair

William Evans , William Evans

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Trees Witness Everything

Victoria Chang

4.20

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