Rendang
By: Will Harris
3.88
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
In RENDANG, Will Harris complicates and experiments with the lyric in a way that urges it forward. …
Want to Read $ 9.99If you liked the poetry plot in Rendang by Will Harris , here is a list of 11 books like this:
1. Grief is the Thing with Feathers
By: Max Porter
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Max Porter's Grief is the Thing with Feathers book and Will Harris's Rendang
2. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds book and Will Harris's Rendang
3. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Time Is a Mother book and Will Harris's Rendang
- poetry
- fiction
4. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
Want to Read $ 9.49Similar categories in Elisa Shua Dusapin's The Pachinko Parlour book and Will Harris's Rendang
- fiction
"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
5. 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
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience book and Will Harris's Rendang
- fiction
"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
6. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Aube Rey Lescure's River East, River West book and Will Harris's Rendang
- fiction
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
7. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head book and Will Harris's Rendang
- poetry
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
8. A Year in the New Life
By: Jack Underwood
3.78
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
This new book of poems finds fresh ways of navigating a time of continual surprise and uncertainty.… read more
Want to Read $ 8.54Similar categories in Jack Underwood's A Year in the New Life book and Will Harris's Rendang
- poetry
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
Want to Read $ 11.10Similar categories in Joelle Taylor's C+nto and Othered Poems book and Will Harris's Rendang
- poetry
10. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Will Harris's Rendang
- fiction
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
11. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and Will Harris's Rendang
- fiction
12. Little Weirds
By: Jenny Slate
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Jenny Slate's Little Weirds book and Will Harris's Rendang
- poetry
"If I deny that the root is in me, I will never change."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"I love myself. I think that I am a very top-quality person."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"If I could remember anything, I would remember my belief that my extra love could just be used on myself."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"I was born bucking the idea that I should have to be anywhere that I don’t like or talk to people who make me feel dead or trapped."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
13. Burnt Sugar
By: Avni Doshi
3.26
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Uma história de obsessões e traição. Uma história de amor envenenada, cujos protagonistas, ao contr… read more
Want to Read $ 9.78Similar categories in Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar book and Will Harris's Rendang
- fiction
"Ma naps on the sofa, and for a moment I can imagine what she’ll look like when she dies, when her face slackens and the air abandons her lungs. Around her are objects, papers, photo frames filled wit…"-Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar
14. 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
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Mary Jean Chan's Bright Fear book and Will Harris's Rendang
- poetry
15. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jason Allen-Paisant's Self-Portrait as Othello book and Will Harris's Rendang
- poetry
16. Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.23
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between … read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Nina Mingya Powles's Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai book and Will Harris's Rendang
"Home sickness comes in waves, sometimes leaving me reeling."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is June. I am in Shanghai and I am not tired. June in Shanghai is for cold bubble tea, for kissing, for three-yuan ice creams and misty rain mixing with sweat on skin."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"I often end up biking home with a paper bag in my basket, a warm boluo bao inside. Whatever the time of year, they remind me of sun, tropical heat, being with family. Mooncakes, the little cakes eate…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is tiring to be a woman who loves to eat in a society where hunger is something not to be satisfied but controlled. Where a long history of female hunger is associated with shame and madness. The …"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
17. Being Various: New Irish Short Stories
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.69
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
Featuring brand new short stories from Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, Belinda McKeon, Lisa McInerney,… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Lucy Caldwell's Being Various: New Irish Short Stories book and Will Harris's Rendang
- fiction
18. Us (Faber Poetry)
By: Zaffar Kunial
3.97
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize 'Rich in form and reverent refe… read more
Want to Read $ 13.74Similar categories in Zaffar Kunial's Us (Faber Poetry) book and Will Harris's Rendang
- poetry
19. Rendang
By: Will Harris
3.88
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
In RENDANG, Will Harris complicates and experiments with the lyric in a way that urges it forward. … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Will Harris's Rendang book and Will Harris's Rendang
- poetry
- fiction
20. Brother Poem (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Will Harris
4.07
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Will Harris's Brother Poem (Wesleyan Poetry Series) book and Will Harris's Rendang
- poetry
21. Peach Pig
By: Cecilia Knapp
4.10
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
' Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her' KAE TEMPEST In her devastatingly powerful debut c… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Cecilia Knapp's Peach Pig book and Will Harris's Rendang
- poetry
