11 must-read lgbt books like Togetherness by Wo Chan

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Togetherness

By: Wo Chan

4.17

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from…

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1. The Dream of a Common Language

By: Adrienne Rich

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for e… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms."

-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

"I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings"

-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

"but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties"

-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

"We stayed mute and disloyal because we were afraid I would have touched my fingers to where your breasts had been but we never did such things"

-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

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2. A Poetry Handbook

By: Mary Oliver

4.22

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"(...) A Poetry Handbook was written with writers of poetry most vividly in my mind; their needs an… read more

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  • poetry
"A poem on the page speaks to the listening mind."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"Invention hovers always a little above the rules."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"The language of the poem is the language of particulars."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"Whatever can't be taught, there is a great deal that can, and must, be learned."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

3. 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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4. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

By: Kai Cheng Thom

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more

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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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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"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. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

By: Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more

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  • poetry
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

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7. 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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  • poetry
"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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8. 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
  • lgbt
  • queer
"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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9. Bluest Nude: Poems

By: Ama Codjoe

4.48

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated de… read more

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  • poetry
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10. Thrown in the Throat (National Poetry Series)

By: Benjamin Garcia

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Tongues make mistakes / and mistakes / make languages.” And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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11. 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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12. Beast at Every Threshold

By: Natalie Wee

3.74

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultura… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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13. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.25

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourse… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good book and Wo Chan's Togetherness

  • lgbt
  • queer
"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

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14. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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  • poetry
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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15. 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

Similar categories in Chen Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency book and Wo Chan's Togetherness

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"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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16. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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17. Guillotine: Poems

By: Eduardo C. Corral

4.34

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. Rangikura

By: Tayi Tibble

4.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let th… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry Series) by No‘u Revilla

19. Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry Series)

By: No‘u Revilla

4.28

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares ever… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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20. The Blue Mimes: Poems

By: Sara Daniele Rivera

4.21

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Sara Daniele Rivera’s award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastr… read more

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  • poetry
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21. Togetherness

By: Wo Chan

4.17

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from… read more

Similar categories in Wo Chan's Togetherness book and Wo Chan's Togetherness

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer

18 must-read poetry books like Togetherness by Wo Chan

Transform Your Habits

The Dream of a Common Language

Adrienne Rich

4.33

Transform Your Habits

A Poetry Handbook

Mary Oliver

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

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16 Best nonfiction books like Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry Series) by No‘u Revilla

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

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

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Transform Your Habits

All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

Paul Tran

3.87

Transform Your Habits

From From: Poems

Monica Youn

4.18

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