9 Top lgbt books like Pastoral by Carl Phillips

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Pastoral

By: Carl Phillips

4.06

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Carnal Prayers Prayer and the body are the two big themes rippling through Pastoral, Carl Phillips…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Pastoral by Carl Phillips , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds, Judith Henry

1. The Dead and the Living

By: Sharon Olds , Judith Henry

4.17

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collect… read more

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  • poetry
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2. The Dream of a Common Language

By: Adrienne Rich

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for e… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Rich's The Dream of a Common Language book and Carl Phillips's Pastoral

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms."

-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

"I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings"

-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

"but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties"

-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

"We stayed mute and disloyal because we were afraid I would have touched my fingers to where your breasts had been but we never did such things"

-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

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3. Meadowlands

By: Louise Glück

4.08

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Louise Glück sows the fertile subject ground of marital discord in harvesting this crop of gems. Th… read more

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  • poetry
"Watching you stare into space in the tidy rows of the vegetable garden, ostensibly working hard while actually doing the worst job possible, I think you are a small irritating purple thing and I woul…"

-Louise Glück, Meadowlands

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4. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

Similar categories in William Carlos Williams's Howl and Other Poems book and Carl Phillips's Pastoral

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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5. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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6. The New Testament

By: Jericho Brown

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In The New Testament, Jericho Brown continues his tender examination of race, masculinity, and sexu… read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The New Testament book and Carl Phillips's Pastoral

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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7. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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8. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Carl Phillips's Pastoral

  • queer

9. Stay, Illusion: Poems

By: Lucie Brock-Broido

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist Stay, Illusion, the much-anticipated volume of poems by Lucie Brock-B… read more

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10. Sleeping With the Dictionary

By: Harryette Mullen

4.50

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspr… read more

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11. Archeophonics

By: Peter Gizzi

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeoph… read more

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12. blud

By: Rachel McKibbens

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

McKibbens's blud is a collection of dark, rhythmic poems interested in the ways in which inherited … read more

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13. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's Água Viva book and Carl Phillips's Pastoral

  • poetry
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

14. 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

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15. The Collected Poems

By: Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

"By the time of her death, on 11 February, 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. T… read more

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16. Notes on ‘Camp’

By: Susan Sontag

3.97

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more

Similar categories in Susan Sontag's Notes on ‘Camp’ book and Carl Phillips's Pastoral

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

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17. Cursed Bunny

By: Bora Chung

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more

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"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

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18. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

Similar categories in Saeed Jones's Alive At The End Of The World book and Carl Phillips's Pastoral

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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19. They: A Sequence of Unease

By: Kay Dick

3.38

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complac… read more

Similar categories in Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease book and Carl Phillips's Pastoral

  • lgbt
  • queer
"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."

-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease

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20. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

Similar categories in Solmaz Sharif's Customs: Poems book and Carl Phillips's Pastoral

  • poetry
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21. Pastoral

By: Carl Phillips

4.06

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Carnal Prayers Prayer and the body are the two big themes rippling through Pastoral, Carl Phillips… read more

Similar categories in Carl Phillips's Pastoral book and Carl Phillips's Pastoral

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer

11 Best poetry books like Pastoral by Carl Phillips

Transform Your Habits

The Dead and the Living

Sharon Olds , Judith Henry

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Dream of a Common Language

Adrienne Rich

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Meadowlands

Louise Glück

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Howl and Other Poems

William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

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Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

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