9 Best poetry books like Relearning the Alphabet by Denise Levertov

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Relearning the Alphabet

By: Denise Levertov

4.16

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

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If you liked the poetry plot in Relearning the Alphabet by Denise Levertov , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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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. 100 Selected Poems

By: E.E. Cummings

4.29

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

E.E. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of the 20th century, and this volume, firs… read more

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"tomorrow is our permanent address"

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

"for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine"

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

"love’s to giving as to keeping’s give; as yes is to if,love is to yes"

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

"Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves."

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

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3. The Awful Rowing Toward God

By: Anne Sexton

4.22

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Sexton's eighth collection of poetry is entitled The Awful Rowing Toward God. The title came from h… read more

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  • poetry
"Someone brought me oranges in my despair but I could not eat a one"

-Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God

"The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart."

-Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God

"There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God gives milk and I have the pail"

-Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God

"Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup?"

-Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God

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4. The Book of Folly

By: Anne Sexton

3.84

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

The author expresses her views on life, personal relationships, and religion in this selection of p… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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6. The Passion

By: Jeanette Winterson

2.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in worl… read more

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7. Midwinter Day

By: Bernadette Mayer

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts… read more

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  • poetry
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8. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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  • poetry

9. The Opening of the Field: Poetry

By: Robert Duncan

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Speaking of his own work, Robert Duncan (1919-1987) said: "I make poetry as other men make war or m… read more

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10. My Friend Dahmer

By: Derf Backderf

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer -- the most notorious serial killer sin… read more

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11. No Country for Old Men

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more

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12. Under a Glass Bell

By: Anaïs Nin , Gunther Stuhlmann

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

Under a Glass Bellis one of Nin's finest collections of stories. First published in 1944, it attrac… read more

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13. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

By: John Waters

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o… read more

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14. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

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15. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

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  • poetry
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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16. Imaginary Museums: Stories

By: Nicolette Polek

3.63

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In this collection of compact fictions, Nicolette Polek transports us to a gently unsettling realm … read more

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  • poetry
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17. Relearning the Alphabet

By: Denise Levertov

4.16

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

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frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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