18 Best poetry books like Asterism: Poems by Ae Hee Lee

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Asterism: Poems

By: Ae Hee Lee

4.44

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

“What does it mean to seek a life beyond belonging? Traveling through rich landscapes of memory, Ae…

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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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"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. The Days of Abandonment

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more

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"I'm dead, but I'm fine."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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3. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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4. The Private Lives of Trees

By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

3.66

Format: 259 pages,

The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named… read more

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5. Dictee

By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more

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6. 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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7. The Waste Land and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more

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8. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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9. 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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10. 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

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11. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Ae Hee Lee's Asterism: Poems

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12. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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13. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost book and Ae Hee Lee's Asterism: Poems

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14. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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15. From From: Poems

By: Monica Youn

4.18

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more

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16. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

By: Jia Tolentino

4.04

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more

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"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

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17. Tremor

By: Teju Cole

3.69

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more

Similar categories in Teju Cole's Tremor book and Ae Hee Lee's Asterism: Poems

"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."

-Teju Cole, Tremor

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18. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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19. The Verifiers (Claudia Lin)

By: Jane Pek

3.50

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Introducing a sharp-witted heroine for the 21st century: a new amateur sleuth exploring the landsca… read more

Similar categories in Jane Pek's The Verifiers (Claudia Lin) book and Ae Hee Lee's Asterism: Poems

"If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't yet understand."

-Jane Pek, The Verifiers (Claudia Lin)

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20. Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

By: Forugh Farrokhzad

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad… read more

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"I dreamed of that red star when I wasn’t asleep"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

"Düşler daima Saflıklarının yüksekliğinden fırlatılıp ölürler"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

"Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarette in the narcotic repose between two love-makings or the absent gaze of a passerby who takes off his hat to another passerby with a meaningless smile and a good …"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

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21. Mothman Apologia

By: Robert Wood Lynn

4.52

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and comi… read more

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22. 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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23. 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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24. Content Warning: Everything

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.94

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more

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25. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ghazal Ali's Theophanies book and Ae Hee Lee's Asterism: Poems

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Cover of The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

26. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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27. With My Back to the World: Poems

By: Victoria Chang

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more

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28. Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118)

By: Cindy Juyoung Ok

4.37

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation   “The… read more

Similar categories in Cindy Juyoung Ok's Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118) book and Ae Hee Lee's Asterism: Poems

  • poetry
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29. Concerning the Future of Souls

By: Joy Williams

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more

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30. Asterism: Poems

By: Ae Hee Lee

4.44

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

“What does it mean to seek a life beyond belonging? Traveling through rich landscapes of memory, Ae… read more

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31. Invitatory

By: Molly Spencer

4.80

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

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