17 must-read poetry books like Irredenta by Oscar Oswald

Cover of Irredenta by Oscar Oswald

Irredenta

By: Oscar Oswald

4.00

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

A sequence of poems that interrogates American civics and citizenry from its foundation in the past…

If you liked the poetry plot in Irredenta by Oscar Oswald , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

1. Blood Dazzler

By: Patricia Smith

4.42

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-bl… read more

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2. Slow Lightning

By: Eduardo C. Corral

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such dis… read more

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Cover of Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

3. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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4. King Me

By: Roger Reeves

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

From a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced fami… read more

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5. Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems

By: Donald Revell

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

For over 20 years, Donald Revell has used the pastoral as a tool of protest/revolution against viol… read more

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6. Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more

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7. Houseboat Days

By: John Ashbery

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This reissue of a book of thirty-nine poems, first collected in 1977, reminds us of Ashbery's aston… read more

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8. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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9. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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10. Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems

By: Valzhyna Mort

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New Yor… read more

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11. 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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Cover of Guillotine: Poems by Eduardo C. Corral

12. 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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Cover of Floaters: Poems by Martín Espada

13. Floaters: Poems

By: Martín Espada

4.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. … read more

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Cover of Museum of the Americas (Penguin Poets) by J. Michael Martinez

14. Museum of the Americas (Penguin Poets)

By: J. Michael Martinez

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The poems in J. Michael Martinez’s third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body … read more

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15. The Rock

By: Wallace Stevens

4.17

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Harold Bloom afirmó que algunos de los mejores poemas del siglo se encuentran en este libro. La roc… read more

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16. White Campion

By: Donald Revell

4.47

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

White Campion attempts a libretto to the music of aphasia and forgetting. The disappearance of memo… read more

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Cover of Irredenta by Oscar Oswald

17. Irredenta

By: Oscar Oswald

4.00

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

A sequence of poems that interrogates American civics and citizenry from its foundation in the past… read more

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18. I|I

By: Katherine Indermaur

4.65

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A debut essay collection from the winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. Katherine… read more

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19. And And And

By: Cole Swensen

4.71

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

"Swensen is psychopomp back to an orphic sense of voice, one the critic Elizabeth Sewell, in The Or… read more

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20. BEIT

By: Eryn Green

4.17

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Eryn Green’s new collection of poetry BEIT is a lyric examination of the idea of home, and how it i… read more

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23 Best poetry books like White Campion by Donald Revell

Transform Your Habits

The End of Beauty

Jorie Graham

4.01

Transform Your Habits

New Collected Poems

George Oppen , Eliot Weinberger , Michael Davidson

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Selected Poems

René Char , Mary Ann Caws , Tina Jolas

4.67

Transform Your Habits

They and We Will Get into Trouble for This

Anna Moschovakis

4.48

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