17 must-read poetry books like Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists by Laynie Browne

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Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists

By: Laynie Browne

4.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Laynie Browne's latest poetry collection, Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists playfully emplo…

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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. Wittgenstein's Mistress

By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more

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3. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more

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4. Event Factory

By: Renee Gladman

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Fiction. A "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefi… read more

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5. The California Poem

By: Eleni Sikelianos

4.75

Format: 2112 pages,

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6. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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7. Bending the Bow: Poetry

By: Robert Duncan

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In "Structures of Rime," the open series begun in The Opening of the Fieldand continued in this vol… read more

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8. Alive: New and Selected Poems

By: Elizabeth Willis

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

American poet Elizabeth Willis has written an electrifying body of work spanning more than twenty y… read more

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9. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

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10. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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11. 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

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12. Life Ceremony

By: Sayaka Murata

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more

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"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

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13. Acting Class

By: Nick Drnaso

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina."Every single p… read more

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14. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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15. 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

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"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

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16. Pure Colour

By: Sheila Heti

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more

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"And what opens one heart opens many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

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17. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

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18. 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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19. 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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20. The Gull Yettin

By: Joe Kessler

4.04

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The life of an orphaned boy is shaped by the devotion of a fantastical Gull in this lovingly render… read more

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21. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

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22. Social Fiction

By: Chantal Montellier

4.05

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Appearing together in English for the first time, three politically charged sci-fi graphic novellas… read more

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23. Plans for Sentences

By: Renee Gladman

4.29

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"These sentences―they―will begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark t… read more

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24. stemmy things

By: imogen xtian Smith

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy This flirty … read more

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25. Stereo(TYPE) (Winner of the 2017 Sawtooth Poetry Prize)

By: Jonah Mixon-Webster

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Newcomer and Sawtooth Poetry Prize winner Jonah Mixon-W… read more

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Cover of The Ruins of Nostalgia (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Donna Stonecipher

26. The Ruins of Nostalgia (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Donna Stonecipher

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poem … read more

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27. New Life

By: Ana Bozicevic

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

In her latest book,  New Life , Lambda Award–winning poet Ana Božičević writes, “For my birthday I … read more

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28. House of Poured Out Waters: Poems (Illinois Poetry Series)

By: Jane Mead

4.37

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In House of Poured-Out Waters , Jane Mead's substantial new collection, she continues to grapple wi… read more

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29. At Passages (New Directions Paperbook; 803)

By: Michael Palmer

4.31

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists by Laynie Browne

30. Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists

By: Laynie Browne

4.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Laynie Browne's latest poetry collection, Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists playfully emplo… read more

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31. Her Scant State

By: Barbara Tomash

4.40

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

In Barbara Tomash's brilliant reworking of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady , the continuity an… read more

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23 must-read poetry books like New Life by Ana Bozicevic

Transform Your Habits

Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

Patricia Lockwood

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

3.45

Transform Your Habits

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Transform Your Habits

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

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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