16 Top poetry books like Yin by Carolyn Kizer

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Yin

By: Carolyn Kizer

3.65

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

1985 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "For nearly 25 years Carolyn Kizer has been writing poetry that is …

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1. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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2. 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

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"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

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3. The Idiot

By: Elif Batuman

3.66

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself… read more

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"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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4. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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5. The Days of Abandonment

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more

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"I'm dead, but I'm fine."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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6. Turtle Island

By: Gary Snyder , Michael Corr

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

Describing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in… read more

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  • poetry
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7. Fuel

By: Naomi Shihab Nye

3.77

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing." read more

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  • poetry
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8. كزهر اللوز أو أبعد

By: Mahmoud Darwish , محمود درويش

3.93

Format: None pages,

fy hdh lktb ybdw 'n mHmwd drwysh m zl qdran `l~ ldhsh wmnH lsh`r l`rby mzydan mn l'nq@ wljdhby@ lms… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
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9. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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10. Interpreter of Maladies

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.17

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more

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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

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11. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

12. The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King A… read more

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13. Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000

By: Lucille Clifton

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today. read more

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14. A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more

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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

15. Eileen

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman… read more

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16. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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17. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.74

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more

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"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

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18. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.95

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more

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"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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19. 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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20. Obit

By: Victoria Chang

4.27

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more

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  • poetry
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

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21. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

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  • poetry
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22. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

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  • poetry
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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23. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

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  • poetry
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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24. 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

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  • 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

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25. 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

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  • poetry
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26. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

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  • poetry
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27. 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

Cover of Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey

28. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

By: Natasha Trethewey

4.25

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot… read more

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"Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it."

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"For my father, the myth of Cassandra had been just another way he sought to guide me toward what he thought I needed to know. In some versions, Cassandra's fate is that she is merely misunderstood--n…"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"My whole life people have wondered "what" I am, what race or nationality. ... It's happened again and again: someone looking at me furtively, or calling me "exotic" and asking me "What's your heritag…"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

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29. Brute: Poems

By: Emily Skaja

4.03

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more

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  • poetry
"unfull but full of loathing"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"I know what to do with the dark."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

Cover of Oculus: Poems by Sally Wen Mao

30. Oculus: Poems

By: Sally Wen Mao

4.18

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

A brilliant second collection by Sally Wen Mao on the violence of the spectacle—starring the film l… read more

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  • poetry
"The sun doesn't set in Lost in Translation, but I will make sure it does here."

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

"Where do you wander, where do you search for this petal that grows from the stone in your chest?"

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

"Every day I try to fight my own brokenness. But once you are forgotten, it's not so bad: a heart broken joins another chorus."

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

"Forgive me if the wind stole the howl from my mouth and whipped it against your windowpanes. When I lived, I wanted to be seen."

-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

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31. Yin

By: Carolyn Kizer

3.65

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

1985 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "For nearly 25 years Carolyn Kizer has been writing poetry that is … read more

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  • literature
  • poetry

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Transform Your Habits

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

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The Idiot

Elif Batuman

3.66

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Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

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