13 best-selling poetry books like Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection by James Crews

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Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection

By: James Crews

4.41

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and…

If you liked the poetry plot in Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection by James Crews , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

By: Phyllis Cole , Ruby R. Wilson , Phyllis Cole-Dai

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mindfulness poems invite us to bring our whole self to whatever moment we're in, and truly live it.… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
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2. Every Riven Thing: Poems

By: Christian Wiman

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poets Every Riven Thingis Christ… read more

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  • poetry
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3. Selected Poems

By: Sharon Olds

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands' and cheered the 'roughnes… read more

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  • poetry

4. Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs, #6)

By: Jacqueline Winspear , Orlagh Cassidy

2.33

Format: None pages, Audio CD

In the thrilling new novel by the New York Timesbestselling author of An Incomplete Revenge, Maisie… read more

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5. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

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  • poetry
"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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6. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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7. 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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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"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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8. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

By: Maggie Smith

3.89

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Marie Claire’s The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now The Washington Post’s What to Read in 2020 B… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

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

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

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10. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

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11. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

Similar categories in Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden book and James Crews's Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection

  • nonfiction
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12. True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

By: Tara Brach

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you cope when facing life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path."

-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

"Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit."

-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

"You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh…"

-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

"The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first ste…"

-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

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13. Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver

4.52

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Soph… read more

Similar categories in Mary Oliver's Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver book and James Crews's Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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14. The Book of Goose

By: Yiyun Li

3.71

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more

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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though is has ti meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

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15. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
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16. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

By: Margaret Renkl

4.30

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

"When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

"Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

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17. We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of)

By: Hannah Pittard

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“Hannah Pittard’s memoir is so exquisitely crafted ― I loved it.” ―Ann Napolitano, New York Times … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Instructions for Traveling West: Poems by Joy Sullivan

18. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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19. How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times

By: Annie Chagnot

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This wide-ranging collection of inspirational poetry and prose offers readers solace, perspective, … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
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20. Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection

By: James Crews

4.41

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and… read more

Similar categories in James Crews's Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection book and James Crews's Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
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21. House Plants for Every Space: A Concise Guide to Selecting, Designing and Maintaining Plants in Any Indoor Space

By: Green Interior

3.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The complete beginner's guide to selecting and maintaining the right plants for all of your spaces!… read more

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  • nonfiction

15 must-read nonfiction books like Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection by James Crews

Transform Your Habits

Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

Phyllis Cole , Ruby R. Wilson , Phyllis Cole-Dai

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Maggie Smith

3.89

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20 must-read audiobook books like Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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