6 Top queer books like A Symmetry: Poems by Ari Banias

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A Symmetry: Poems

By: Ari Banias

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2022 Publish Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Award Finalist for the 202…

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1. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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2. A Hunger

By: Lucie Brock-Broido

4.31

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

"Brock-Broido's talismanic words open into a magical territory of 'Domestic Mysticism' . . . A viol… read more

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  • poetry
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3. Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems

By: Robin Coste Lewis

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure through time introduces us to a… read more

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  • poetry
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4. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more

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5. Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more

Similar categories in Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

  • poetry
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6. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.10

Format: 264 pages,

In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Rankine's Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

  • poetry
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7. Louise in Love

By: Mary Jo Bang

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

In this stunning new collection of poems, Mary Jo Bang jettisons the reader into the dreamlike worl… read more

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  • poetry
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8. Veil: New and Selected Poems

By: Rae Armantrout

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rae Armantrout, a core member of the Language writing movement, has long been known for the wit, em… read more

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  • poetry
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9. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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  • poetry
  • queer

10. Bad Behavior

By: Mary Gaitskill

4.11

Format: None pages,

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11. The Hour of the Star

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more

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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

12. When My Brother Was an Aztec

By: Natalie Díaz

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more

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13. Sleeping With the Dictionary

By: Harryette Mullen

4.50

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspr… read more

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14. Lighthead

By: Terrance Hayes

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investig… read more

Similar categories in Terrance Hayes's Lighthead book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

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15. Bliss Montage

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more

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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

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16. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Time Is a Mother book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
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17. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
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18. The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void

By: Jackie Wang

3.83

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflower’s many dream guises―its evolving symbolism in literatu… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Wang's The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
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19. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

Similar categories in Louise Glück's Winter Recipes from the Collective book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

  • poetry
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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20. Manhunt

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.54

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

  • queer
"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"He pressed a kiss to the crown of her head and she let him hold her close among the falling leaves and relished the illusion that, if only for a little while, she was safe."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

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21. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

By: Elena Ferrante

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more

Similar categories in Elena Ferrante's In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

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22. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

Similar categories in Solmaz Sharif's Customs: Poems book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

  • poetry
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23. Ghost Of

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

4.36

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more

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  • poetry
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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
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25. Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 62)

By: Tongo Eisen-Martin

4.38

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry - Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Allian… read more

Similar categories in Tongo Eisen-Martin's Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 62) book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

  • poetry
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26. Laura's Desires

By: Laura Henriksen

4.68

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Laura’s Desires is a diptych of two formally distinct long poems, each approaching various pop-cult… read more

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  • poetry
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27. Autobiography of Death

By: Kim Hyesoon

4.08

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nin… read more

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  • poetry
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28. The Hartford Book

By: Samuel Amadon

4.36

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

"These poems are street-smart, buoyantly lyrical, and they possess something beautiful and permanen… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Amadon's The Hartford Book book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

  • poetry
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29. A Symmetry: Poems

By: Ari Banias

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2022 Publish Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Award Finalist for the 202… read more

Similar categories in Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems book and Ari Banias's A Symmetry: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
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30. New Life

By: Ana Bozicevic

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

In her latest book,  New Life , Lambda Award–winning poet Ana Božičević writes, “For my birthday I … read more

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  • poetry

21 must-read poetry books like A Symmetry: Poems by Ari Banias

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

A Hunger

Lucie Brock-Broido

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems

Robin Coste Lewis

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Eros the Bittersweet

Anne Carson

4.00

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23 must-read poetry books like New Life by Ana Bozicevic

Transform Your Habits

Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

Patricia Lockwood

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

3.45

Transform Your Habits

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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