8 must-read poetry books like Shapeshifter by Alice Paalen Rahon

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Shapeshifter

By: Alice Paalen Rahon

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Alice Paalen Rahon was a shapeshifter, a surrealist poet turned painter who was born French and die…

If you liked the poetry plot in Shapeshifter by Alice Paalen Rahon , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman

1. Our Lady of the Flowers

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

4.01

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictio… read more

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  • france
"En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"Dzięki temu,że powiedział mi,iż nie żyję,pogodziłem się z faktem,że ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myśli"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

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2. Arcanum 17 (Green Integer)

By: André Breton , Zack Rogow

3.40

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

André Breton wrote Arcanum 17 during a trip to the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-… read more

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  • poetry
  • france
Cover of Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1) by Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher, Michael       Gallagher

3. Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher

4.16

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by ou… read more

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"إن جوهر أي إرادة هو الرغبة في التأثير في التاريخ"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won’t you?"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"الرجال لا يفكرون إلا في المال و النساء،لقد نسوا كل ما يليق بالرجل"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls."

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

Cover of The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray

4. The Malady of Death

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, … read more

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  • france
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5. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… 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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  • poetry
  • france
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7. Nine Stories

By: J.D. Salinger

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more

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8. Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more

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9. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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  • art
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10. Sexing the Cherry

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in th… read more

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11. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE H… read more

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12. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

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"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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13. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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  • poetry
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

Cover of Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Énard

14. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

By: Mathias Énard

3.86

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constan… read more

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  • art
  • france
"We all ape God in His absence."

-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

"Calligraphies are our images, Maestro, images of our faith."

-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

"Entscheide dich für mich und meine erloschenen Geschichten."

-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

"How many works of art will there have to be to put beauty into the world?"

-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

Cover of The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson

15. The Baudelaire Fractal

By: Lisa Robertson

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the c… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge

16. Birds of Maine

By: Michael DeForge

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Take flight to this post-apocalyptic utopia filled with birds. Birds roam freely around the Moon c… read more

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Cover of Rose Quartz: Poems by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

17. Rose Quartz: Poems

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.17

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing—and a s… read more

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  • poetry
"keep this / with you / it is part / of your story / sometimes / to remember / a wound / is the way / of healing"

-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems

"How is it I have never dated / someone who is also Coast Salish / or at least Indigenous / instead it's Disney's Pocahontas / her animated dad with his hands up / these white men are dangerous / and …"

-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems

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18. 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
Cover of To 2040 by Jorie Graham

19. To 2040

By: Jorie Graham

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single wor… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Shapeshifter by Alice Paalen Rahon

20. Shapeshifter

By: Alice Paalen Rahon

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Alice Paalen Rahon was a shapeshifter, a surrealist poet turned painter who was born French and die… read more

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  • poetry
  • art
  • france
Cover of Instructions for the Drowning by Steven Heighton

21. Instructions for the Drowning

By: Steven Heighton

3.91

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 • One of the Globe 100's Best … read more

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6 must-read france books like Shapeshifter by Alice Paalen Rahon

Transform Your Habits

Our Lady of the Flowers

Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Arcanum 17 (Green Integer)

André Breton , Zack Rogow

3.40

Transform Your Habits

The Malady of Death

Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud

5.00

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7 best-selling poetry books like The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson

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Pond

Claire-Louise Bennett

4.33

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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Anne Carson

4.00

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I Remember

Joe Brainard

3.57

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Lisa Robertson

3.94

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