11 best-selling nonfiction books like Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic by Alice Quinn

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Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic

By: Alice Quinn

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addre…

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1. 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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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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2. I Love Dick

By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more

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  • contemporary

3. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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4. Thrall

By: Natasha Trethewey

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by America's new Poe… read more

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5. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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6. 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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  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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7. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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8. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

By: Paul Tran

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more

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  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

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9. Pearl

By: Siân Hughes

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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10. Pink Slime

By: Fernanda Trías

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • audiobook
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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12. Goldenrod: Poems

By: Maggie Smith

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more

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  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

Cover of Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves

13. Best Barbarian: Poems

By: Roger Reeves

4.10

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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14. Gay Poems for Red States

By: Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.

4.56

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

No one will protect you. Months after being named the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, Willie Edw… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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15. Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate: Poems (Ecco Essentials)

By: James Tate

4.28

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems that will captivate today’s readers, wi… read more

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  • poetry
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16. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

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  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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17. Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A new collection of poems from one of America’s most e… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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18. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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  • contemporary
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19. The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy

By: James Crews

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An Indie Poetry Bestseller and Nautilus Award Winner! Crews, a fine poet and teacher, appears to h… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
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20. Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic

By: Alice Quinn

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addre… read more

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  • poetry
  • health
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • audiobook
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21. Cardinal

By: Tyree Daye

4.31

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Tyree Daye's Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic "Green Book"-- the travel-cum-sur… read more

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  • poetry

10 Best contemporary books like Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic by Alice Quinn

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

I Love Dick

Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Blackouts

Justin Torres

3.77

Transform Your Habits

All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

Paul Tran

3.87

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19 Best poetry books like Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate: Poems (Ecco Essentials) by James Tate

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass

4.29

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King Me

Roger Reeves

3.93

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Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

3.45

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