14 Top poetry books like Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

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Cane, Corn & Gully

By: Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

4.20

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Cane, Corn & Gulley is a genealogical and autobiographical collection which unites dance and poetry…

If you liked the poetry plot in Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Book of Frank

By: C.A. Conrad

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features addition… read more

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  • poetry
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2. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

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  • poetry
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3. Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "ly… read more

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  • poetry
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4. Les Bonnes

By: Jean Genet

3.60

Format: 222 pages, Pocket Book

The Maids (Les Bonnes) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Pari… read more

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"I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him...I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens."

-Jean Genet, Les Bonnes

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5. Greek Lessons

By: Han Kang

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more

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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

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6. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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7. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

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"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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8. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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9. C+nto and Othered Poems

By: Joelle Taylor

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more

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  • poetry
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10. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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11. Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)

By: Lewis Hancox

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the … read more

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12. Bad Diaspora Poems

By: Momtaza Mehri

4.29

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE 2023*Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on yo… read more

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  • poetry
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13. Bright Fear

By: Mary Jean Chan

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more

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  • poetry
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14. Self-Portrait as Othello

By: Jason Allen-Paisant

4.02

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Long… read more

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  • poetry
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15. 100 Queer Poems

By: Mary Jean Chan

3.82

Format: 175 pages, Hardcover

Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more

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16. The Sun is Open

By: Gail McConnell

4.23

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life a… read more

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  • poetry
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17. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive

By: Katie Farris

4.31

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more

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  • poetry
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18. Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

By: Jen Campbell

4.34

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologisin… read more

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  • poetry
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19. A Method, A Path

By: Rowan Evans

3.67

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2023* * An award-winning poet… read more

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20. Cane, Corn & Gully

By: Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

4.20

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Cane, Corn & Gulley is a genealogical and autobiographical collection which unites dance and poetry… read more

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  • poetry
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21. The Ink Cloud Reader

By: Kit Fan

3.71

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In his disquieting third collection The Ink Cloud Reader, Kit Fan takes enormous risks linguistical… read more

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