19 Top poetry books like Casting Deep Shade: An Amble by C.D. Wright

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Casting Deep Shade: An Amble

By: C.D. Wright

4.29

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

"C.D. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one." --The New York Times "C.D. Wright has been wri…

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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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  • poetry
"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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2. Rapture

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture' is about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering by Thich Nhat Hanh

3. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, T… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tende…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

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4. Sing, Unburied, Sing

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2017 A searing and profound Southern odyssey. In Jesm… read more

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5. Trophic Cascade

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and power read more

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  • poetry
  • nature
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6. It's Kind of a Funny Story

By: Ned Vizzini

4.08

Format: 444 pages, Paperback

Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means gettin… read more

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"It's such a silly little thing, the heart."

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?"

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real."

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed."

-Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

7. The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

By: Bhanu Kapil

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Asian American Studies. THE VERTICAL INTERROGATION OF STRANGERS blends the narratives of th… read more

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8. Sophie Calle - True Stories

By: Sophie Calle

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

First published in French in 1994, quickly acclaimed as a photobook classic, and now expanded and r… read more

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9. The Boss

By: Victoria Chang

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Written in "a breathless kind of fury," the poems in award-winning poet Victoria Chang's virtuosic … read more

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10. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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11. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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12. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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13. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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14. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and C.D. Wright's Casting Deep Shade: An Amble

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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15. 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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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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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16. Orwell's Roses

By: Rebecca Solnit

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on Geo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • essays
"He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there."

-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses

"The contemporary world is full of things that look beautiful and are produced through hideous means. People died so that this mine may profit, that these shoes maybe produced as cheaply as possible, …"

-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses

"As withheld information, a lie is a sort of shield for the liar; as falsity it is a sword. It matters whether or not people believe the lies, but unbelievable lies wielded by those with power do thei…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses

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17. 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
  • nonfiction
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18. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

By: Heather Clark

4.58

Format: 1154 pages, ebook

The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material,… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force."

-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

"She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You…"

-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

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19. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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20. 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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21. Soft Science

By: Franny Choi

3.93

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more

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  • poetry
"having been hurt before"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"fiended; fell for another"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"it's too late to stop smiling."

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

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22. The Book (Wave Books, 110)

By: Mary Ruefle

4.57

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Following the acclaimed Dunce , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s la… read more

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  • poetry
  • essays
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23. Burying the Mountain

By: Shangyang Fang

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff

24. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Aug 9 - Fog⁠ by Kathryn Scanlan

25. Aug 9 - Fog⁠

By: Kathryn Scanlan

3.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons Fifteen years ago, … read more

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  • poetry
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26. With My Back to the World: Poems

By: Victoria Chang

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more

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  • poetry
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27. Return

By: Emily Lee Luan

4.26

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorr… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Pearce Oysters

By: Joselyn Takacs

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A family drama set along the Louisiana coastline during the 2010 BP Oil Spill, Pearce Oysters follo… read more

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  • environment
Cover of Casting Deep Shade: An Amble by C.D. Wright

29. Casting Deep Shade: An Amble

By: C.D. Wright

4.29

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

"C.D. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one." --The New York Times "C.D. Wright has been wri… read more

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  • poetry
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
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30. Stranger

By: Emily Hunt

4.19

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Stranger, Emily Hunt's long-awaited follow-up to her acclaimed debut collection of poems, intimatel… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems

By: Tarfia Faizullah

4.25

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Registers of Illuminated Villages is Tarfia Faizullah’s highly anticipated second collection, follo… read more

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  • poetry
"Somewhere in this insomniac night / my life is beginning / without me."

-Tarfia Faizullah, Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems

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Transform Your Habits

No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

Thich Nhat Hanh

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

4.10

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri

Tezer Özlü

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Open Throat

Henry Hoke

4.01

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Parade

Rachel Cusk

3.70

Transform Your Habits

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Helen DeWitt

4.10

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