26 Top poetry books like Little Climates by L.A. Johnson

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Little Climates

By: L.A. Johnson

4.81

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

The lyric poems of Little Climates address the divisions between the self and the world, the self a…

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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. A Tale for the Time Being

By: Ruth Ozeki

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more

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"Maketa,"

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Live. For Now. For the time being."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"True freedom comes from being unknown."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

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3. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

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Cover of Incarnadine: Poems by Mary Szybist

4. Incarnadine: Poems

By: Mary Szybist

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

The troubadours knew how to burn themselves through, how to make themselves shrines to their own lo… read more

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5. Firstborn: Poems

By: Louise Glück

4.08

Format: 234 pages,

LoC: 6818259 ASIN: B000UE2H3Y read more

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6. Equilibrium

By: Tiana Clark

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

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7. 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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8. Bestiary: Poems

By: Donika Kelly

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological m… read more

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9. Render / An Apocalypse

By: Rebecca Gayle Howell

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poetry. "To enter into these poems one must be fully committed, as the poet is, to seeing this worl… 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. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

By: Noor Hindi

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more

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"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

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12. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

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"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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13. Beast Meridian

By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Beast Meridian narrates the first- generation Mexican American girl, tracking the experiences of cu… read more

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14. 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

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Cover of Woman Without Shame: Poems by Sandra Cisneros

15. Woman Without Shame: Poems

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more

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16. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

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"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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17. Trace Evidence: Poems

By: Charif Shanahan

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more

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18. 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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"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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19. 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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Cover of Meltwater: Poems by Claire Wahmanholm

20. Meltwater: Poems

By: Claire Wahmanholm

4.45

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

A haunting collection that inhabits a disquieting future where fear is the governing body, “the org… read more

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Cover of A Hundred Lovers: Poems by Richie Hofmann

21. A Hundred Lovers: Poems

By: Richie Hofmann

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly a… read more

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22. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

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23. Citizen Illegal

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of C… read more

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"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence."

-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

"my enemies aren’t ugly-faced crooks, they don’t laugh while innocent die.​ they point & say how tragic then go home to pet their cute dogs."

-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

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24. Water I Won't Touch

By: Kayleb Rae Candrilli

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won’t Touch is a life raft and a self-portr… read more

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Cover of Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems by C.T. Salazar

25. Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems

By: C.T. Salazar

4.35

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner.   In C. T. Salazar’s striking debut poetr… read more

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Cover of Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems by Fady Joudah

26. Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems

By: Fady Joudah

3.99

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

An exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the bo… read more

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27. Little Climates

By: L.A. Johnson

4.81

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

The lyric poems of Little Climates address the divisions between the self and the world, the self a… read more

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Cover of Lying In: Poems by Elizabeth Metzger

28. Lying In: Poems

By: Elizabeth Metzger

3.93

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief. “A… read more

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29. From

By: Jill Osier

4.62

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Jill Osier, winner of the 2017 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, returns to Bull City Press wi… read more

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30. At Night My Body Waits

By: Saúl Hernández

5.00

Format: 41 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize.Praise for At Night My Body "I’m drawn to this poet… read more

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31. To Those Who Were Our First Gods

By: Nickole Brown

4.51

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

For the past three years, Nickole Brown has been at work on a bestiary of sorts, investigating the … read more

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"Now, don’t play stupid. You knew this was coming. You’ve seen it enough times."

-Nickole Brown, To Those Who Were Our First Gods

"I want you to grab a rag, a sponge, the corner of your shirt― anything you can find—to sop up the liquid—so much of it you can’t tell what’s what—be it mucus or bile or vomit or blood― as if every wa…"

-Nickole Brown, To Those Who Were Our First Gods

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