16 Best poetry books like Your Favorite Poet by Leigh Chadwick

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Your Favorite Poet

By: Leigh Chadwick

4.78

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

The poems in this collection are about being alive and wanting to stay alive. They are poems teeter…

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1. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

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  • poetry
"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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2. 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

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  • poetry
"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

"Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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3. Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more

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4. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

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5. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

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6. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

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  • poetry
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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7. Night Fever

By: Ed Brubaker

3.87

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind? In Europe o… read more

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8. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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  • poetry
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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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
"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. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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  • poetry
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11. Soft Science

By: Franny Choi

3.93

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more

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  • poetry
"having been hurt before"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"fiended; fell for another"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"it's too late to stop smiling."

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

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12. Duplex

By: Mike Nagel

4.60

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he's hungover. There's a squirrel in the… read more

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13. A Kind of In-Between

By: Aaron Burch

4.58

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Aaron Burch is both nostalgic and looking forward to what's to come, all while trying to enjoy the … read more

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14. Year of the Buffalo

By: Aaron Burch

4.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ernie and his brother, Scott, have never seen eye-to-eye—literally or figuratively. Scott’s a mount… read more

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15. Thumbsucker

By: Kat Giordano

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Thumbsucker, the third poetry collection by Kat Giordano, is a celebration of the juvenile, attenti… read more

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  • poetry
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16. Constellation Route

By: Matthew Olzmann

4.31

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American … read more

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  • poetry
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17. Citizen Illegal

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of C… read more

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  • poetry
"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence."

-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

"my enemies aren’t ugly-faced crooks, they don’t laugh while innocent die.​ they point & say how tragic then go home to pet their cute dogs."

-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

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18. The Burden Of Joy

By: Lexi Kent-Monning

4.71

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Lexi Kent-Monning's debut novel, The Burden of Joy, is an incessant dagger to the heart. After Lexi… read more

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19. Scumbag Summer: A Novel

By: Jillian Luft

4.72

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the summer of 2003 and an idealistic yet unambitious Florida college grad moves to Orlando—the… read more

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20. Toska

By: Alina Pleskova

4.57

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

Toska explores a sense of rootlessness and a sort of anti-nationalism; how the pervasive sense of b… read more

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  • poetry
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21. White People on Vacation

By: Alex Miller

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

White People on Vacation is a story about the struggle to live a meaningful life in the era of late… read more

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22. Your Favorite Poet

By: Leigh Chadwick

4.78

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

The poems in this collection are about being alive and wanting to stay alive. They are poems teeter… read more

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  • poetry
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23. Water Look Away

By: Bob Hicok

3.66

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Bob Hicok’s Water Look Away  is an experimental conversation with the highest and lowest facets of … read more

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  • poetry
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24. A Manual for How to Love Us

By: Erin Slaughter

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A debut, interlinked collection of stories exploring the primal nature of women's grief--offering i… read more

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25. Too Much Tongue

By: Adrienne Marie Barrios

4.64

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Adrienne Barrios and Leigh Chadwick became friends on the internet. They live 939 miles apart. They… read more

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  • poetry
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26. Notes from a Wood-Paneled Basement

By: Alan ten-Hoeve

4.75

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

"Notes from a Wood-Paneled Basement made me feel how I did the first time I saw The 400 Blows. A po… read more

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  • poetry
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27. Kill Radio

By: Lauren Bolger

4.14

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

When Rachelle unearths her ex’s handmade crystal radio, violence and terror reign in the form of he… read more

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28. Deliver Thy Pigs

By: Joey Hedger

4.76

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

“A timely and addictive antidote for our times, witty and sensory. A jaunt through grief and reveng… read more

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29. The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You're the Last One Around

By: Adrian Sobol

5.00

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Equal parts funny and devastating, Adrian Sobol's debut dares us to have a good time through our ow… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Guess What's Different

By: Susan Triemert

5.00

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Guess What’s Different is a collection of essays about the moments no one wants to talk about. Fami… read more

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31. The Monotony of Everlasting

By: Jack Moody

4.55

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

For his entire life, Nicholas has been consumed by the pursuit of one single goal. The only goal th… read more

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13 Top nonfiction books like Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez

Transform Your Habits

Blood Dazzler

Patricia Smith

4.42

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The Crown Ain't Worth Much

Hanif Abdurraqib

3.69

Transform Your Habits

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Solmaz Sharif

4.16

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Javier Zamora

3.89

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