22 must-read poetry books like I Will Pass Even to Acheron by Amanda Newell

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I Will Pass Even to Acheron

By: Amanda Newell

4.11

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

pamphlet is pristine inside, faint shelf wear to cover

If you liked the poetry plot in I Will Pass Even to Acheron by Amanda Newell , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Floating, Brilliant, Gone

By: Franny Choi

4.11

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Beginning at loss and ending in reflective elation, Floating, Brilliant, Gone moves steadily throug… read more

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2. Sharks in the Rivers

By: Ada Limon

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more

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3. Cabal

By: Clive Barker

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

For more than two decades, Clive Barker has twisted the worlds of horrific and surrealistic fiction… read more

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4. Aspects of the Novel

By: E.M. Forster

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Forster's lively, informed originality and wit have made this book a classic. Avoiding the chronolo… read more

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5. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

By: Terry Tempest Williams

3.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more

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6. The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more

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7. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

By: Amanda Gorman

4.56

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9780593465271 can be found here. On January 20, 2021,… read more

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"So while we once asked: How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert: How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it, If only we're brave enough to be it."

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be …"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

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8. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

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9. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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10. 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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"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

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11. The Book of Delights: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.16

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more

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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

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12. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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13. The Morning You Saw a Train of Stars Streaking Across the Sky

By: CooXooEii Black

4.40

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner If history leaves an impression, then to be born in an Indigen… read more

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Cover of The Fight Journal: Poems by John W.  Evans

14. The Fight Journal: Poems

By: John W. Evans

4.22

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The Fight Journal is a heartsick elegy for a failed marriage. Written in couplets that mirror the b… read more

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15. Small World

By: Laura Zigman

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more

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"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"

-Laura Zigman, Small World

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16. 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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Cover of Ward Toward (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 118) by Cindy Juyoung Ok

17. 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

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18. I Will Pass Even to Acheron

By: Amanda Newell

4.11

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Imago, Dei by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose

19. Imago, Dei

By: Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose

4.34

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

How does a daughter emerge whole from an upbringing saturated with religious fundamentalism? And if… read more

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Cover of Plucked by Miracle Thornton

20. Plucked

By: Miracle Thornton

4.07

Format: 32 pages, None

In her debut chapbook, Miracle Thornton offers an imaginative portrait of black girlhood. In an eff… read more

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Cover of Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet by Michael J. Mark

21. Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet

By: Michael J. Mark

4.73

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a … read more

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22. At the Car Wash

By: Arthur Russell

4.13

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In his chapbook, At the Car Wash, Arthur Russell investigates and cross-examines his experiences gr… read more

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Cover of The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water by Cameron Barnett

23. The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water

By: Cameron Barnett

4.49

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Rising Writer Contest (2017) Cameron Barnett's poetry collection, The Drowning Boy… read more

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Cover of 2022 RYPA (Rattle Young Poets Anthology) by The Rattle Foundation

24. 2022 RYPA (Rattle Young Poets Anthology)

By: The Rattle Foundation

4.07

Format: None pages, Chapbook

Rattle Young Poets Anthology The annual RYPA returns for another year of delightful and insightful… read more

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Cover of The Death of a Migrant Worker by Gil Arzola

25. The Death of a Migrant Worker

By: Gil Arzola

4.31

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Gil Arzola’s father was a migrant worker raised in Bustamante, Mexico, who crossed like so many oth… read more

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"We were migrants and Mexicans and all that we carried in our pockets were dreams."

-Gil Arzola, The Death of a Migrant Worker

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26. Rattle #73, Fall 2021

By: The Rattle Foundation

4.25

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Indian Poets The Fall 2021 issue features a tribute to Indian Poets. The world’s largest democra… read more

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27. Murmur

By: Cameron Barnett

4.73

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

A poetry collection that explores the complexity of race and the body for a Black man in contempora… read more

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28. Rattle #70, Winter 2020

By: The Rattle Foundation

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rattle Poetry Prize The Winter 2020 issue of Rattle has arrived, and with it comes good news: De… read more

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29. These Few Seeds

By: Meghan Sterling

4.92

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Throughout this splendid book, grounded in the intimate joys and trepidations of new motherhood, th… read more

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Cover of How to Make Pancakes for a Dead Boy by Joan Kwon Glass

30. How to Make Pancakes for a Dead Boy

By: Joan Kwon Glass

4.87

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

“bow your head/ in prayer to a new Holy Trinity:/ Father, Gun, Holy Ghost/ place your ear to the fl… read more

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31. Adjusting to the Lights

By: Tom C. Hunley

4.28

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

In Adjusting to the Lights, Tom C. Hunley explores his relationship with his two special needs chil… read more

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17 Top poetry books like The Death of a Migrant Worker by Gil Arzola

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Morning You Saw a Train of Stars Streaking Across the Sky

CooXooEii Black

4.40

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