11 Best poetry books like God Was Right by Diana Hamilton

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God Was Right

By: Diana Hamilton

4.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

God Was Right collects poems that take the form of arguments, essays, and letters. The title poem a…

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1. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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  • poetry
"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By: Muriel Spark

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more

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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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3. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • poetry
"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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4. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more

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  • poetry
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5. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

By: Emil Ferris

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monstersis… read more

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6. Stone Butch Blues

By: Leslie Feinberg

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more

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7. White Is for Witching

By: Helen Oyeyemi

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole pu… read more

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"But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you"

-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching

"Please tell a story about a girl who gets away."

-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching

"She won't forget or recover, she is inconsolable."

-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching

"The water was so cold on her skin that it felt dry."

-Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching

8. Little Men

By: Kevin Killian

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This book is a collection of prose pieces, the line between fact and fancy, between actuality and i… read more

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9. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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10. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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11. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

By: Audre Lorde

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more

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12. Victory City

By: Salman Rushdie

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more

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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

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13. 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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14. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

By: Deesha Philyaw

4.17

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more

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"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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15. Heart First into this Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets

By: Wanda Coleman

4.26

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The first complete collection of Wanda Coleman’s original and inventive sonnets. Long regarded as a… read more

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  • poetry
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16. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

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"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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17. Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq

3.91

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more

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  • poetry
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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18. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

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  • essays
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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19. We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

By: Andrea Abi-Karam

4.44

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A collection of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire. Editors An… read more

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  • poetry
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20. About Ed

By: Robert Glück

3.73

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come o… read more

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21. A Queen in Bucks County

By: Kay Gabriel

4.08

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor. In… read more

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  • poetry
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22. a "Working Life"

By: Eileen Myles

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of On Community (Field Notes, #8) by Casey Plett

23. On Community (Field Notes, #8)

By: Casey Plett

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

ONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL We need community to live. But what doe… read more

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  • essays
Cover of Don't Leave Me This Way by Eric Sneathen

24. Don't Leave Me This Way

By: Eric Sneathen

4.55

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A textual and historigraphical odyssey imbued with queer intergenerational yearning and loss. Don’… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali

25. Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water

By: Kazim Ali

4.04

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

"Places do not belong to us. We belong to them." The child of South Asian migrants, Kazim Ali wa… read more

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26. Fascination: Memoirs

By: Kevin Killian

4.18

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative mov… read more

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27. Get the Money!: Collected Prose (1961-1983)

By: Ted Berrigan

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A monumental event in American poetry, Get the Money! brings together the essential prose writings … read more

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28. God Was Right

By: Diana Hamilton

4.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

God Was Right collects poems that take the form of arguments, essays, and letters. The title poem a… read more

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  • poetry
  • essays
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29. The Dogs

By: Noah Ross

4.83

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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30. Minor Work

By: Eric Sneathen

4.75

Format: 40 pages, None

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31. Mine Eclogue

By: Jakob Kahn

5.00

Format: 104 pages, None

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Ocean Vuong

3.94

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4.24

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