12 Best poetry books like Pagan Virtues: Poems by Stephen Dunn

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Pagan Virtues: Poems

By: Stephen Dunn

3.93

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn returns with his signature morbid wit, intellectual daring, and …

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1. 美少女戦士セーラームーン新装版 1 [Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon Shinsōban 1]

By: Naoko Takeuchi , 武内直子

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Da hitsutoZuo [Mei Shao Nu Zhan Shi seramun] gaXin Zhuang Ban ni! kabahasubeteMiao kiXia roshi! read more

Similar categories in Naoko Takeuchi's 美少女戦士セーラームーン新装版 1 [Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon Shinsōban 1] book and Stephen Dunn's Pagan Virtues: Poems

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2. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

Similar categories in Unknown's Beowulf book and Stephen Dunn's Pagan Virtues: Poems

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"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

3. All My Puny Sorrows

By: Miriam Toews

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poigna… read more

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4. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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5. The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.90

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Ju… read more

Similar categories in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book book and Stephen Dunn's Pagan Virtues: Poems

"Mark my trail..."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Each dog barks in its own yard."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

6. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Gustave Doré , Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major… read more

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7. Nana, Vol. 7 (Nana, #7)

By: Ai Yazawa

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Nana K. was happy to be Blast's biggest cheerleader, but now that the band is taking off, she's dis… read more

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8. What Kind of Woman: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.07

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more

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  • poetry
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

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9. H of H Playbook

By: Anne Carson

4.43

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous facsimile edition (reminiscent of her classic book-in-a-box, Nox ), H of H Playbook is a… read more

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  • poetry
"M: Fantasy just makes me hungrier."

-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook

"What's it like to wear an eternal Olympian overall held up by the burning straps of mortal shortfall?"

-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook

"H of H: I cannot rise. Too heavy with filth and sin. Th: Give me your hand. H of H: I'll stain you. Th: I'll take it."

-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook

"aH of H: I cannot rise. Too heavy with filth and sin. Th: Give me your hand. H of H: I'll stain you. Th: I'll take it."

-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook

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10. 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

Similar categories in Amanda Gorman's Call Us What We Carry book and Stephen Dunn's Pagan Virtues: Poems

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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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11. Inciting Joy: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more

Similar categories in Ross Gay's Inciting Joy: Essays book and Stephen Dunn's Pagan Virtues: Poems

  • poetry
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"

-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays

"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"

-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays

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12. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round

By: Jami Attenberg

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more

Similar categories in Jami Attenberg's 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round book and Stephen Dunn's Pagan Virtues: Poems

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13. 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

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry: Poems book and Stephen Dunn's Pagan Virtues: Poems

  • poetry
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14. Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

By: Richard Mirabella

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age nov… read more

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15. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and Stephen Dunn's Pagan Virtues: Poems

  • poetry
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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16. Disease of Kings: Poems

By: Anders Carlson-Wee

4.48

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid chronicle of friendship amidst “a harrowing dive into late-empire America” (Patrick Phillip… read more

Similar categories in Anders Carlson-Wee's Disease of Kings: Poems book and Stephen Dunn's Pagan Virtues: Poems

  • poetry
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17. Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting

By: Mary Gauthier

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the Grammy nominated folk singer and songwriter, an inspiring exploration of creativity and th… read more

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18. Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems

By: Catherine Barnett

4.45

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The loneliness that collects in mirrors and faces―at bedside vigils and in city streets―quickens Ca… read more

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  • poetry
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19. New and Selected Poems

By: Marie Howe

4.49

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An indispensable collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Pagan Virtues: Poems by Stephen Dunn

20. Pagan Virtues: Poems

By: Stephen Dunn

3.93

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn returns with his signature morbid wit, intellectual daring, and … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Dunn's Pagan Virtues: Poems book and Stephen Dunn's Pagan Virtues: Poems

  • poetry
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21. How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan: Poems

By: Sarah Carson

3.98

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky Editors Choice Award, a poetry collection that portrays quintesse… read more

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  • poetry

23 must-read classics books like The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Transform Your Habits

Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Pinocchio

John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

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