22 must-read poetry books like Colleen by Colleen Louise Barry

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Colleen

By: Colleen Louise Barry

4.71

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Colleen Louise Barry’s debut collection of poems, Colleen, is a gleeful exercise in self-documentat…

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1. Sphinx

By: Anne Garréta , Emma Ramadan

3.74

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and … read more

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"I concluded that making love without laughing was as bad as gifting a book written in a language the recipient does not know."

-Anne Garréta, Sphinx

"To clutch someone in my arms took on, without fail, a singular sense of indignity, the taste of putrefaction. When I embrace someone I am submerged in a feeling of infamy, in the nauseating sensation…"

-Anne Garréta, Sphinx

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2. Song

By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly

3.82

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent fo… read more

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3. After Lorca

By: Jack Spicer

3.82

Format: None pages,

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4. Trouble in Mind: Poems

By: Lucie Brock-Broido

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

With Trouble in Mind,her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exc… read more

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5. Freely Espousing: Poems

By: James Schuyler

3.62

Format: None pages,

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6. Selected Poems of Robert Creeley

By: Robert Creeley

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Here, in a new selection of 200 poems from five decades, is the distinctive voice of Robert Creeley… read more

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7. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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8. 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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9. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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10. Acting Class

By: Nick Drnaso

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina."Every single p… read more

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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. Luster

By: Raven Leilani

3.52

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office,… read more

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"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"

-Raven Leilani, Luster

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15. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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16. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

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17. Star Lake

By: Arda Collins

4.51

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

Arda Collins’s second book of poems, Star Lake, is a deeply personal collection that explores the w… read more

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18. Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl

By: Diane Seuss

4.41

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry… read more

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19. A Treatise on Stars

By: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

3.78

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau) Winner of the Bollingen… read more

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20. Good Boys: Poems

By: Megan Fernandes

4.26

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a … read more

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21. Borealis

By: Aisha Sabatini Sloan

4.03

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An intimate essay on the art of Alaskan glaciers, memory, loneliness, and blackness in wild spaces.… read more

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22. stemmy things

By: imogen xtian Smith

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy This flirty … read more

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Cover of Palm-Lined with Potience by Basie Allen

23. Palm-Lined with Potience

By: Basie Allen

4.44

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

PALM-LINED WITH POTIENCE is New York City poet and visual artist Basie Allen's debut collection of … read more

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24. Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina

By: Dara Barrois/Dixon

4.07

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Highly anticipated poems from beloved contemporary poet Dara Barrois/Dixon (formerly Dara Wier). … read more

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25. Synthetic Jungle: Poems

By: Michael Chang

3.66

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A new poetry collection from award-winning author Michael Chang   A vital breath of life arrives in… read more

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26. a Year & other poems

By: Jos Charles

3.42

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recou… read more

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27. April

By: Sara Nicholson

4.36

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A Third Collection of Poems from the Visionary Imagination of Sara Nicholson. Deadpan, heartfelt, a… read more

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28. A Symmetry: Poems

By: Ari Banias

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2022 Publish Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Award Finalist for the 202… read more

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29. Colleen

By: Colleen Louise Barry

4.71

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Colleen Louise Barry’s debut collection of poems, Colleen, is a gleeful exercise in self-documentat… read more

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Cover of Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists by Laynie Browne

30. Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists

By: Laynie Browne

4.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Laynie Browne's latest poetry collection, Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists playfully emplo… read more

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31. Good Actors

By: Sommer Browning

4.77

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

At birth we are given a role—it is our name. Good Actors is a side-eyed illumination of the artist … read more

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18 Best poetry books like Palm-Lined with Potience by Basie Allen

Transform Your Habits

As We Know: Poems

John Ashbery

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Plot

Claudia Rankine

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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