8 Top poetry books like To the Letter: Poems by Tomasz Różycki

Cover of To the Letter: Poems by Tomasz Różycki

To the Letter: Poems

By: Tomasz Różycki

3.76

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

Frank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love – detective poem, historical h…

If you liked the poetry plot in To the Letter: Poems by Tomasz Różycki , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright

1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

Similar categories in Marcel Proust's The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Cover of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

2. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

Similar categories in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

  • poetry

3. Tranquility

By: Attila Bartis , Imre Goldstein

3.73

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Tranquility is a living seismograph of the internal quakes and ruptures of a mother and son trapped… read more

Similar categories in Attila Bartis's Tranquility book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

Cover of Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

4. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Cover of A Shining by Jon Fosse

5. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's A Shining book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

Cover of Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal

6. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

Similar categories in Maylis de Kerangal's Eastbound book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

Cover of Be With by Forrest Gander

7. Be With

By: Forrest Gander

3.80

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Publisher… read more

Similar categories in Forrest Gander's Be With book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

  • poetry
"You find yourself in another world you weren’t looking for where what you see is that you have always been the wolves at the door. Left ajar, gaping, your own door."

-Forrest Gander, Be With

"The break-hard determination to be a good person, what happened to that? How is it true I have to go now? She's lost my name, but the occasion of my presence begs more. Who is my mother now I am unsp…"

-Forrest Gander, Be With

"At which point my grief-sounds ricocheted outside of language. Something like a drifting swarm of bees. At which point in the tetric silence that followed I was swarmed by those bees and lost conscio…"

-Forrest Gander, Be With

"At which point I grew old and it was like ripping open the beehive with my hands again. At which point I conceived a realm more real than life. At which point there was at least some possibility. Som…"

-Forrest Gander, Be With

Cover of Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

8. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

Cover of No es un río by Selva Almada

9. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

Cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

10. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

Cover of Orbital by Samantha Harvey

11. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of My Friends by Hisham Matar

12. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

Cover of Modern Poetry: Poems by Diane Seuss

13. 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

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry: Poems book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Napalm al cor by Pol Guasch

14. Napalm al cor

By: Pol Guasch

3.69

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

«De vegades penso que estic anotant el futur. Em dic que, davant de la incomprensió, en quedin les … read more

Similar categories in Pol Guasch's Napalm al cor book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"El sol gratina el terra". "Un vespre cítric"."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

"Des d'aleshores viure es va convertir en sobreviure, que és la pitjor forma d'estar viu."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

"Em dic que, davant de la incomprensió, en quedin les paraules. Algú, potser, les podrà entendre."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

"Quan la tristesa es cansa i desapareix, la tristesa és, aleshores, el temps. I el pare duia el temps a dins."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

Cover of Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro by Liliana Colanzi

15. Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro

By: Liliana Colanzi

3.69

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Los cuentos de Liliana Colanzi exploran diversas formas de narrar el tiempo, como el viaje geológic… read more

Similar categories in Liliana Colanzi's Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

Cover of Wrong Norma by Anne Carson

16. 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

Similar categories in Anne Carson's Wrong Norma book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

  • poetry
"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

Cover of Enero by Sara Gallardo

17. Enero

By: Sara Gallardo

3.97

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

La pertenencia de Sara Gallardo a la alta burguesía nacional no es un dato aleatorio a la hora de c… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gallardo's Enero book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"Cuando chica, Nefer quería ser hombre para lucir en las fiestas esas prendas resplandecientes."

-Sara Gallardo, Enero

"Porque no se puede volver atrás, el tiempo viene y todo crece, y después de crecer viene la muerte. Pero para atrás no se puede andar."

-Sara Gallardo, Enero

"Her former tormenter has become her friend, her companion in a private world, which, until only a few days ago, was untainted by outside words and prying eyes. Her blood thins and begins to flow free…"

-Sara Gallardo, Enero

"Nefer tiene oídos y por eso oye, y la boca le sirve para comer, pero el mundo pasa a su alrededor como el agua en torno a un peñasco, y ella está seria y nada importa. Dentro de un tiempo empezará a …"

-Sara Gallardo, Enero

Cover of The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

18. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

Similar categories in Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

Cover of Ungeenheden by Fine Gråbøl

19. Ungeenheden

By: Fine Gråbøl

3.68

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

Ungeenheden er Fine Gråbøls debut. En omsorgsfuld og kritisk roman om en gruppe unge i psykiatrien … read more

Similar categories in Fine Gråbøl's Ungeenheden book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"Our daily routines are our best illusions of new beginnings, a new cycle."

-Fine Gråbøl, Ungeenheden

Cover of A Year of Last Things: Poems by Michael Ondaatje

20. A Year of Last Things: Poems

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.61

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more

Similar categories in Michael Ondaatje's A Year of Last Things: Poems book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Liars by Sarah Manguso

21. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems by Catherine Barnett

22. Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems

By: Catherine Barnett

4.45

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The loneliness that collects in mirrors and faces―at bedside vigils and in city streets―quickens Ca… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Barnett's Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

23. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

Cover of The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas

24. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

Cover of Ghostroots: Stories by 'Pemi Aguda

25. Ghostroots: Stories

By: 'Pemi Aguda

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more

Similar categories in 'Pemi Aguda's Ghostroots: Stories book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

Cover of Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga

26. Sister Deborah

By: Scholastique Mukasonga

3.30

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Les années 1930 voient, dans toute l'Afrique de l'Est, un vaste mouvement de conversion au christia… read more

Similar categories in Scholastique Mukasonga's Sister Deborah book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

Cover of The Brush: Poems by Eliana Hernández-Pachón

27. The Brush: Poems

By: Eliana Hernández-Pachón

4.16

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A wise, visionary debut on ecological and human resistance, perfect for fans of Amanda Gorman and G… read more

Similar categories in Eliana Hernández-Pachón's The Brush: Poems book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

28. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

Cover of To the Letter: Poems by Tomasz Różycki

29. To the Letter: Poems

By: Tomasz Różycki

3.76

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

Frank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love – detective poem, historical h… read more

Similar categories in Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

30. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of This World Is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

31. This World Is Not Yours

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.28

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This World is Not Yours by USA Today bestseller Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the perfect blend of S.A. Barne… read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's This World Is Not Yours book and Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter: Poems

20 must-read fiction books like Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Transform Your Habits

My Friends

Hisham Matar

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

4.08

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.