18 Best poetry books like The Orange Tree (Phoenix Poets) by Dong Li

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The Orange Tree (Phoenix Poets)

By: Dong Li

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Debut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration. Dong Li’s The…

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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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2. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

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3. Westlake: Poems by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947-1984)

By: None , None , None

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

In an all-too-brief life and literary career, Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947-1984) produced a subst… read more

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4. Transformations

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Anne Sexton , None

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose honesty and wit in the face of … read more

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5. Shark Dialogues

By: Kiana Davenport

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Spellbinding in its imagery and ancient myths, Shark Dialogues is the stunningly sensual and vision… read more

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6. 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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7. Y/N

By: Esther Yi

2.95

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more

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"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

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8. When I Arrived at the Castle

By: Emily Carroll

3.69

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood." Like many before her tha… read more

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9. The Woman in the Purple Skirt

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more

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10. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

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11. The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 5

By: Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

4.67

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE As the day of Nangong Si and Song Qiutong’s wedding draws near, a scandalous… read more

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12. The Sorrows of Others

By: Ada Zhang

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others i… read more

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13. Mothman Apologia

By: Robert Wood Lynn

4.52

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and comi… read more

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14. True Life: Poems

By: Adam Zagajewski

4.06

Format: 78 pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning, intimate collection by the late great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.. . . I think I sough… read more

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15. Games for Dead Girls

By: Jen Williams

3.44

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Exploring the fine line where supernatural ends and real human monstrosity begins, Games for Dead G… read more

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16. The Lights: Poems

By: Ben Lerner

3.84

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more

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17. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By: Terrance Hayes

4.27

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more

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"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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18. Remnants of Filth: Yuwu (Novel) Vol. 3

By: Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

4.64

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

SHADOWS OF FORMER GLORY Gu Mang is determined to turn over a new leaf and prove to Mo Xi that he… read more

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"...although the death of an old friend was agonizing, it could not compare to the pain of an old friend irrevocably changed. When he thought of how this person yet remained on the earth but could nev…"

-Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, Remnants of Filth: Yuwu (Novel) Vol. 3

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19. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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20. The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 4

By: Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

4.61

Format: 444 pages, Paperback

ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART BURN HOTTER Chu Wanning has slumbered for five years since Mo Ran rescue… read more

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"The ones he despised most were those Nangong Liu. An ass-kisser who would kneel on the ground and lick another's hemorrhoid so long as there was something in it for him. Fuck. a hemorrhoid-sucker, ev…"

-Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 4

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21. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

By: Nam Le

4.05

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat In his first … read more

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22. Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry Series)

By: No‘u Revilla

4.28

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares ever… read more

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23. The Diaspora Sonnets

By: Oliver de la Paz

3.94

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY For fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chan… read more

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24. From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]

By: Craig Santos Pérez

4.42

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Experimental and visual poems diving into the history and culture of the poet’s homeland, Guam.   … read more

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25. Names for Light: A Family History

By: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a lyrical meditation on family, place, and inheritan… read more

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26. Side Notes from the Archivist

By: Anastacia-Reneé

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable femi… read more

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27. Earth Room

By: Rachel Mannheimer

4.33

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Selected by Nobel Laureate Louise Glück as Winner of the inaugural Bergman Prize, Rachel Mannheimer… read more

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28. Vantage

By: Taneum Bambrick

4.56

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Vantage is a fictionalized account of the poet's real experiences working as the only woman on a si… read more

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29. The Orange Tree (Phoenix Poets)

By: Dong Li

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Debut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration. Dong Li’s The… read more

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Cover of Uyghur Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by Aziz Isa Elkun

30. Uyghur Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

By: Aziz Isa Elkun

4.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented collection of poems spanning the rich two-thousand-year cultural legacy of the Uyg… read more

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31. Majnun and Layla: Songs from Beyond the Grave

By: Yann Damezin

4.42

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The classic Persian poem of romance and tragedy captured as a sumptuous and richly colorful graphic… read more

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16 Best nonfiction books like Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry Series) by No‘u Revilla

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Transform Your Habits

All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

Paul Tran

3.87

Transform Your Habits

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Monica Youn

4.18

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