17 best-selling poetry books like Many Small Hungerings: Poetry by William Bortz

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Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

By: William Bortz

3.96

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An explosive and elevated exploration on love, longing, and loss, Many Small Hungerings is a timely…

If you liked the poetry plot in Many Small Hungerings: Poetry by William Bortz , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Sappho's If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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2. Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems

By: Billy Collins

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

The first volume of New and Selected poetry in twelve years from the two-time Poet Laureate of the … read more

Similar categories in Billy Collins's Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

3. Sonnets to Orpheus

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheuswere "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up an… read more

Similar categories in Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

4. Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

By: Mary Ruefle

3.93

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know… read more

Similar categories in Mary Ruefle's Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

5. How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

By: David Richo

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

"Most people think of love as a feeling," says David Richo, "but love is not so much a feeling as a… read more

Similar categories in David Richo's How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

7. Picnic, Lightning

By: Billy Collins

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the mos… read more

Similar categories in Billy Collins's Picnic, Lightning book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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8. 2am thoughts

By: Makenzie Campbell

3.75

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

You are holding my heart in your hands. My emotions have bled out on each and every page with the i… read more

Similar categories in Makenzie Campbell's 2am thoughts book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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"Some songs seem to have people attached to them."

-Makenzie Campbell, 2am thoughts

"You are a map of every destination I want to discover."

-Makenzie Campbell, 2am thoughts

"There were things I wanted to put on paper but the words hurt too much to write."

-Makenzie Campbell, 2am thoughts

"You say you want us to survive the flames, yet you feed the fire every time you walk away."

-Makenzie Campbell, 2am thoughts

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9. Between You and These Bones

By: F.D. Soul

3.51

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

An intimate and lovely reading by the author herself, Between You and These Bones will bring you wo… read more

Similar categories in F.D. Soul's Between You and These Bones book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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10. Aptallarla Ne Yapmalı? Onlardan Biri Olmamak İçin

By: Maxime Rovere

3.13

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"Sokakta rastlanan binlerce vakada –yolunuzu kesen bir araç, köpeğini tekmeleyen veya yerlere çöp a… read more

Similar categories in Maxime Rovere's Aptallarla Ne Yapmalı? Onlardan Biri Olmamak İçin book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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11. Ausencia. Acerca de la cultura y la filosofía del Lejano Oriente

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.24

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

«Para la sensibilidad oriental ni la constancia del ser, ni la perduración de la esencia hacen a lo… read more

Similar categories in Byung-Chul Han's Ausencia. Acerca de la cultura y la filosofía del Lejano Oriente book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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12. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

Similar categories in Louise Glück's Winter Recipes from the Collective book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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13. The Crying Book

By: Heather Christle

3.80

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her… read more

Similar categories in Heather Christle's The Crying Book book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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"Tears are a sign of powerlessness, a "woman's weapon." It has been a long war."

-Heather Christle, The Crying Book

"Almost all my understanding is from books...Sometimes it seems there are more pages in me than breaths."

-Heather Christle, The Crying Book

"Some people think of reading poems and stories as a way to practice responding to imagined circumstances, without having to risk dangers of real life."

-Heather Christle, The Crying Book

"They say perhaps we cry when language fails, when words can no longer adequately convey our hurt. When my crying is not wordless enough I beat my head with my fists."

-Heather Christle, The Crying Book

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14. 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

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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"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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15. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Elliott's And Then She Fell book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

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16. Small Joys

By: Elvin James Mensah

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chos… read more

Similar categories in Elvin James Mensah's Small Joys book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

"He was tired of there being something shameful or unsettling about the blunt expression of friendship, of the simple desire to be there for someone needing to be mocked before it could be respected, …"

-Elvin James Mensah, Small Joys

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17. Dearly

By: Margaret Atwood

3.74

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's Dearly book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

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18. Bread and Circus

By: Airea Dee Matthews

4.27

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

“Discerning and significant.” — Poetry Foundation “A sharp memoir in verse.” — LitHub This powe… read more

Similar categories in Airea Dee Matthews's Bread and Circus book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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Cover of My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips

19. My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

By: Carl Phillips

4.45

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperat… read more

Similar categories in Carl Phillips's My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

  • poetry
Cover of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

20. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

Similar categories in Chen Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

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21. The Book (Wave Books, 110)

By: Mary Ruefle

4.57

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Following the acclaimed Dunce , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s la… read more

Similar categories in Mary Ruefle's The Book (Wave Books, 110) book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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22. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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23. Nocturnal

By: Wilder Poetry

3.85

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Nocturnal is a collection of words and imagery inspired by darkened skies and sleepless nights. it … read more

Similar categories in Wilder Poetry's Nocturnal book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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Cover of The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant

24. The Nature of Disappearing

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating novel of suspense, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her … read more

Similar categories in Kimi Cunningham Grant's The Nature of Disappearing book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

"All of them skated through life making choices that could be swept away and tidied up with incomprehensible ease simply because of who they were."

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

"This is the moment Emlyn will play over and over in her mind. The moment where her life swivels from its course and heads in an entirely different direction. Life is full of these moments. Little poi…"

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

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25. What the Moon Gave Her

By: Christi Steyn

3.63

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

It is never too late to become all that you envision. Your birth happens more than once so sink int… read more

Similar categories in Christi Steyn's What the Moon Gave Her book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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26. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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27. God Themselves

By: Jae Nichelle

4.09

Format: None pages, None

Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern churc… read more

Similar categories in Jae Nichelle's God Themselves book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

  • poetry
Cover of Self-Love for Small-Town Girls by Lang Leav

28. Self-Love for Small-Town Girls

By: Lang Leav

3.87

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Self-Love for Small Town Girls is an exciting offering from beloved bestselling author Lang Leav. A… read more

Similar categories in Lang Leav's Self-Love for Small-Town Girls book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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29. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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30. Love by Night: A Book of Poetry

By: S.K. Williams

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

More of a story than a collection of poetry, Love by Night will whisk you away from your world and … read more

Similar categories in S.K. Williams's Love by Night: A Book of Poetry book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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Cover of Many Small Hungerings: Poetry by William Bortz

31. Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

By: William Bortz

3.96

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An explosive and elevated exploration on love, longing, and loss, Many Small Hungerings is a timely… read more

Similar categories in William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry book and William Bortz's Many Small Hungerings: Poetry

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