9 Top nonfiction books like Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems by francine j. harris

Cover of Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems by francine j. harris

Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

By: francine j. harris

3.99

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular, the speaker…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems by francine j. harris , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. A Tale for the Time Being

By: Ruth Ozeki

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more

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"Maketa,"

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Live. For Now. For the time being."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"True freedom comes from being unknown."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

Cover of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

2. 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

Similar categories in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • african american
  • nonfiction
"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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3. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

Similar categories in Louise Glück's The Wild Iris book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • womens
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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4. Helter Skelter

By: Kyōko Okazaki

3.87

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

If you are aware of fashion in Japan you must have seen Liliko's face. For the last few years she h… read more

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"No matter how beautiful it is, a rabbit is still just a chunk of meat once you skin it"

-Kyōko Okazaki, Helter Skelter

"I hear a ticking sound. Something inside of me is going to end very soon. But I'm not afraid. I knew about it all along."

-Kyōko Okazaki, Helter Skelter

5. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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6. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Yvette Siegert

3.28

Format: 404 pages, ebook

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasu… read more

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7. When My Brother Was an Aztec

By: Natalie Díaz

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more

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8. Rocket Fantastic: Poems

By: None

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Like nothing before it, Rocket Fantasticreinvents the landscape and language of the body in interco… read more

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9. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials, #3)

By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Jason DeAntonis

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The third title in Parallax's Mindfulness Essentials Seriesof how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nha… read more

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10. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more

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11. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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12. 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

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • african american
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon

13. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

Cover of Bluest Nude: Poems by Ama Codjoe

14. Bluest Nude: Poems

By: Ama Codjoe

4.48

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated de… read more

Similar categories in Ama Codjoe's Bluest Nude: Poems book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • african american
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15. From From: Poems

By: Monica Youn

4.18

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more

Similar categories in Monica Youn's From From: Poems book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly

16. The Renunciations: Poems

By: Donika Kelly

4.29

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more

Similar categories in Donika Kelly's The Renunciations: Poems book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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17. 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 francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • womens
  • nonfiction
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18. Ghost Of

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

4.36

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more

Similar categories in Diana Khoi Nguyen's Ghost Of book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips

19. Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A new collection of poems from one of America’s most e… read more

Similar categories in Carl Phillips's Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas

20. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

By: Taylor Byas

4.37

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Byas's I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • african american
  • nonfiction
Cover of Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems by francine j. harris

21. Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

By: francine j. harris

3.99

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular, the speaker… read more

Similar categories in francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems book and francine j. harris's Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • african american
  • queer

13 best-selling poetry books like Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems by francine j. harris

Transform Your Habits

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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7 Top fiction books like The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

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The Renunciations: Poems

Donika Kelly

4.29

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