8 best-selling nonfiction books like Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (Volume 1, No. 1) by Simon J. Ortiz

Cover of Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (Volume 1, No. 1) by Simon J. Ortiz

Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (Volume 1, No. 1)

By: Simon J. Ortiz

4.47

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Book by Simon J. Ortiz

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (Volume 1, No. 1) by Simon J. Ortiz , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Whereas

By: Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction

2. Ceremonies Of The Damned: Poems

By: Adrian C. Louis

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of pain--the blizzard-bl… read more

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  • poetry

3. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

By: Joy Harjo

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of … read more

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4. Ceremony

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more

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

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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6. 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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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"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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7. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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8. 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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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist

9. Disintegrate/Dissociate

By: Arielle Twist

4.22

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relati… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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10. Habitat Threshold

By: Craig Santos Pérez

4.30

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

With Habitat Threshold, Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explo… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) by Diane Glancy

11. Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)

By: Diane Glancy

4.27

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (Volume 1, No. 1) by Simon J. Ortiz

12. Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (Volume 1, No. 1)

By: Simon J. Ortiz

4.47

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Book by Simon J. Ortiz read more

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  • nonfiction

10 best-selling poetry books like Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (Volume 1, No. 1) by Simon J. Ortiz

Transform Your Habits

Whereas

Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Ceremonies Of The Damned: Poems

Adrian C. Louis

3.83

Transform Your Habits

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

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Transform Your Habits

Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

Noor Hindi

4.52

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12 Best poetry books like Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) by Diane Glancy

Transform Your Habits

From Sand Creek

Simon J. Ortiz

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Whereas

Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Ceremonies Of The Damned: Poems

Adrian C. Louis

3.83

Transform Your Habits

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

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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