9 must-read poetry books like Young Enough to Play by Angela Gabrielle Fabunan

Cover of Young Enough to Play by Angela Gabrielle Fabunan

Young Enough to Play

By: Angela Gabrielle Fabunan

4.14

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

None

If you liked the poetry plot in Young Enough to Play by Angela Gabrielle Fabunan , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

1. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's All About Love: New Visions book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Cover of But for the Lovers by Robert Coover, Wilfrido D. Nolledo

2. But for the Lovers

By: Robert Coover , Wilfrido D. Nolledo

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the 25 years since its original publication, But for the Lovers has acquired an underground repu… read more

Similar categories in Robert Coover's But for the Lovers book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

Cover of Bluets by Maggie Nelson

3. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

4. Else It Was Purely Girls

By: None

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

Angelo V. Suarez' second poetry book. read more

Similar categories in None's Else It Was Purely Girls book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

5. Ordinary Beast

By: Nicole Sealey

4.36

Format: 39 pages, ebook

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Sealey's Ordinary Beast book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

Cover of Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. by Noor  Hindi

6. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

By: Noor Hindi

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more

Similar categories in Noor Hindi's Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

  • poetry
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

Cover of Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

7. Breasts and Eggs

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.86

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting e… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

"Then there are the real bastards, like my ex,"

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"Mi sentivo come un essere privato della carne e della pelle e ridotto a sole ossa. Un carapace enorme completamente cavo."

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"We could worry about tomorrow when it came. What mattered most right now is how we would spend the remainder of today, even if it was half over."

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

"I could see people all around me, but I almost felt like nobody could see me. I heard a train go by, rumbling down the tracks, drawing a thick line between the world and my experience. I was getting …"

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

Cover of The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon

8. 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 Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

  • poetry
"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 Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz

9. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

Cover of Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

10. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

  • poetry
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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

11. 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 Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

  • poetry
"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

Cover of How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo

12. How to Read Now

By: Elaine Castillo

4.03

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of som… read more

Similar categories in Elaine Castillo's How to Read Now book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

"When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the e…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics—the idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that enco…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

Cover of Yñiga by Glenn Diaz

13. Yñiga

By: Glenn Diaz

4.06

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Yñiga Calinauan’s quiet life is upended when a retired army general wanted for the murder of peasan… read more

Similar categories in Glenn Diaz's Yñiga book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

Cover of Lola Coqueta by Isabela Banzon

14. Lola Coqueta

By: Isabela Banzon

4.06

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

Direct rhythms, a wry yet personal approach to experience and memory, oblique with evasion, and ani… read more

Similar categories in Isabela Banzon's Lola Coqueta book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

  • poetry
Cover of Modus by Conchitina R. Cruz

15. Modus

By: Conchitina R. Cruz

3.64

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Conchitina R. Cruz's Modus book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

  • poetry
Cover of The Highest Hiding Place: Poems by Lawrence Lacambra Ypil

16. The Highest Hiding Place: Poems

By: Lawrence Lacambra Ypil

4.14

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

Reading Ypil is meeting oneself in memory, that of the poet’s and one’s own, and in that encounter,… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Lacambra Ypil's The Highest Hiding Place: Poems book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

  • poetry
Cover of Partial Views: On the Essay as a Genre in Philippine Literary Production by Conchitina R. Cruz

17. Partial Views: On the Essay as a Genre in Philippine Literary Production

By: Conchitina R. Cruz

4.88

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

This monograph explores key concepts and issues that undergird the essay as a genre in Philippine l… read more

Similar categories in Conchitina R. Cruz's Partial Views: On the Essay as a Genre in Philippine Literary Production book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

Cover of The Saints of Streets by Luisa A. Igloria

18. The Saints of Streets

By: Luisa A. Igloria

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Luisa A. Igloria’s newest book "The Saints of Streets," hungry ghosts, mullahs, would-be assassi… read more

Similar categories in Luisa A. Igloria's The Saints of Streets book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

  • poetry
Cover of When the World Ended I Was Thinking about the Forest by Glenn Diaz

19. When the World Ended I Was Thinking about the Forest

By: Glenn Diaz

4.27

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Glenn Diaz's When the World Ended I Was Thinking about the Forest book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

Cover of Young Enough to Play by Angela Gabrielle Fabunan

20. Young Enough to Play

By: Angela Gabrielle Fabunan

4.14

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

  • poetry
Cover of Strange Intimacy: Essays on Dressing Up and Consumption by Zea Asis

21. Strange Intimacy: Essays on Dressing Up and Consumption

By: Zea Asis

3.96

Format: 56 pages, Unknown Binding

Zea Asis' first book of essays is about a young woman's coming-of-age in the Philippines as bound t… read more

Similar categories in Zea Asis's Strange Intimacy: Essays on Dressing Up and Consumption book and Angela Gabrielle Fabunan's Young Enough to Play

7 best-selling nonfiction books like Partial Views: On the Essay as a Genre in Philippine Literary Production by Conchitina R. Cruz

Transform Your Habits

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Agaw-dilim, Agaw-liwanag

Lualhati Milan Abreu

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Stigmata: Escaping Texts

Hélène Cixous

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

4.18

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.