14 Best nonfiction books like Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming by R.H. Swaney

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Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

By: R.H. Swaney

3.76

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

R. H. Swaney brings a depolarizing voice to the poetry world with this debut collection. Amongst th…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming by R.H. Swaney , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. West Wind

By: Mary Oliver

4.19

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and … read more

Similar categories in Mary Oliver's West Wind book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me."

-Mary Oliver, West Wind

"Listen, says ambition, nervously shifting her weight from one boot to another — why don’t you get going? For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees. And to tell the truth I don’t want to l…"

-Mary Oliver, West Wind

"West Wind #2 You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without any doubt, I talk directly to your soul.…"

-Mary Oliver, West Wind

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2. Sharks in the Rivers

By: Ada Limon

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's Sharks in the Rivers book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction

3. The Drowned Girls (Angie Pallorino, #1)

By: Loreth Anne White

3.31

Format: 180 pages,

He surfaced two years ago. Then he disappeared ... But Detective Angie Pallorino never forgot the … read more

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4. Dog Songs

By: None , Mary Oliver

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more

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5. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

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6. Bright Minds Empty Souls

By: Jennae Cecelia

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bright Minds Empty Souls is for the hopeless romantics and those who need a friend to comfort their… read more

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7. Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.98

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Nothing in Renee Blackbear’s world had prepared her for college or for the hurt that happens in the… read more

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"But this is the country I know. This Valley. This river. This flat land that goes on forever. The dang wind chill every winter. The wind blowing across this prairie we bend over and walk into. We get…"

-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

"Happens more than we want to know. There are Indian kids, just like your brother, heck just like me, all over this Valley. Fostered out, adopted out, working their fingers to the bone--heck, many of …"

-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

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8. Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers

By: Melody Godfred

4.14

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

In Self Love Poetry, Godfred explores concepts like authenticity, surrender, resilience, gratitude,… read more

Similar categories in Melody Godfred's Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"We make it look easy. (It wasn’t. It isn’t. It never will be.)"

-Melody Godfred, Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers

"I didn’t realize how much I was carrying until I put it all down."

-Melody Godfred, Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers

"When I started approving my own choices, guilt and shame became powerless over me."

-Melody Godfred, Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers

"I finally found my rhythm when I realized that even the steps backward were part of the dance."

-Melody Godfred, Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers

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9. Every Word You Cannot Say

By: Iain S. Thomas

4.00

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

*May this book find the person it needs to. May they find every word they were looking for.* **I k… read more

Similar categories in Iain S. Thomas's Every Word You Cannot Say book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Somewhere, you can stretch every moment into a kind of forever."

-Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

"Even if you do it quietly you have to give yourself the life you want."

-Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

"You can be someone who matters to others. You can be someone who matters to you."

-Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

"You cannot fix me because I am not broken. And even though everything has changed, I am still more me than I’ve ever been."

-Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

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10. Velvet Dragonflies

By: Billy Chapata

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Embark on a gentle journey back to self with this wistful and inspiring collection of poetry from b… read more

Similar categories in Billy Chapata's Velvet Dragonflies book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"oxymoron silence can be both healing and toxic, but never at the same time."

-Billy Chapata, Velvet Dragonflies

"i pray, that you never become so familiar with pain that you reject anything good that tries to find you."

-Billy Chapata, Velvet Dragonflies

"i see more than i say. . . do not mistake my gentleness for passiveness. the lack of words is not a lack of awareness."

-Billy Chapata, Velvet Dragonflies

"people come, and call it love. people stay, and call it love. people go, and call it love. but this is why you must become love, so that regardless of what they do or do not do, you still remain full."

-Billy Chapata, Velvet Dragonflies

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11. Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.85

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“life is not something that can be experienced on a deadline.”amanda lovelace, the bestselling & aw… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Lovelace's Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3) book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"actually, no, i don’t take it as a compliment when you tell me how “hot"

-Amanda Lovelace, Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)

"you truly don’t have to wait until a special occasion to do anything, so go on & put the holiday tree up in august. stay up till dawn making that instagram-worthy cake. wear those glistening green he…"

-Amanda Lovelace, Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)

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12. The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now—indestructible. These moving, … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Lovelace's The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2) book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
" -call us alexandria "

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"Confiança não é egocentrismo"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"Fuck the idea of staying calm."

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"i am the girl with the arsonist heart"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

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13. healing for no one but me

By: Jennae Cecelia

3.95

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

Best-selling poet of The Sun Will Rise and Will We, Jennae Cecelia brings you her tenth poetry book… read more

Similar categories in Jennae Cecelia's healing for no one but me book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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14. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • nonfiction
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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15. Aphrodite Made Me Do It

By: Trista Mateer

3.97

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in th… read more

Similar categories in Trista Mateer's Aphrodite Made Me Do It book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
"Not all gods are born. Plenty of us rise."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"I’m afraid of not unlearning the bad things my parents taught me."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"love has little to do with blood relations and more to do with who you choose to bleed for"

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"The thing about embracing your own chaos is that it never becomes clear when you need to stop."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

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16. It's OK to Feel Things Deeply

By: Carissa Potter

3.77

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From Carissa Potter, whose stationery and gift line, People I've Loved , has been featured on Desig… read more

Similar categories in Carissa Potter's It's OK to Feel Things Deeply book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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17. On Animals

By: Susan Orlean

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestseller Th… read more

Similar categories in Susan Orlean's On Animals book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • nonfiction
"I know now that even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone."

-Susan Orlean, On Animals

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18. Artemis Made Me Do It

By: Trista Mateer

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another magical approach to self-ca… read more

Similar categories in Trista Mateer's Artemis Made Me Do It book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
"Forgive me if I unlearn pretty and learn vicious in its place."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"I believe all men think of me as a piece. Correction: Not all men."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"Look at you, taking care of everyone but yourself, letting love make you hollow instead of full."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"The wolf caught me in its jaws but when I cried out, other only said: I have seen the wolf many times and he has not bitten me"

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

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19. Shine your Icy Crown (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #2)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.97

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“Make them rue the day they underestimated you.”This is a story about not letting society dictate t… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Lovelace's Shine your Icy Crown (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #2) book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"don’t you dare become smaller to make room for others. don’t you dare shrink back into the shadows. don’t you dare wither while everyone else blooms. here’s an indisputable fact: you matter."

-Amanda Lovelace, Shine your Icy Crown (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #2)

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20. Someone Somewhere Maybe

By: Sophie Diener

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For fans of Rupi Kaur, Cleo Wade, and Amanda Lovelace, Someone Somewhere Maybe speaks to the joys a… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Diener's Someone Somewhere Maybe book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming by R.H. Swaney

21. Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

By: R.H. Swaney

3.76

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

R. H. Swaney brings a depolarizing voice to the poetry world with this debut collection. Amongst th… read more

Similar categories in R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming book and R.H. Swaney's Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming

  • poetry
  • nonfiction

14 must-read poetry books like Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming by R.H. Swaney

Transform Your Habits

West Wind

Mary Oliver

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers

Melody Godfred

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Every Word You Cannot Say

Iain S. Thomas

4.00

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21 best-selling poetry books like healing for no one but me by Jennae Cecelia

Transform Your Habits

She Was The Storm

Cherie Avritt

3.48

Transform Your Habits

Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers

Melody Godfred

4.14

Transform Your Habits

2am thoughts

Makenzie Campbell

3.75

Transform Your Habits

To Be Honest

Nelle Starling

4.16

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