10 Best queer books like Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature) by Holly Mitchell

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Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

By: Holly Mitchell

4.71

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

The debut poetry collection from Holly Mitchell, Mare’s Nest , explores a Kentucky horse farm in it…

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1. The Bridge

By: Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler

4.08

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America. B… read more

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  • poetry
"O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God."

-Hart Crane, The Bridge

"O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits The agile precincts of the lark’s return; Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing In single chrysalis the many twain — Of stars Thou art the stitch and…"

-Hart Crane, The Bridge

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2. Riding Westward

By: Carl Phillips

4.09

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

What happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able--or … read more

Similar categories in Carl Phillips's Riding Westward book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
Cover of What the Living Do: Poems by Marie Howe

3. What the Living Do: Poems

By: Marie Howe

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more

Similar categories in Marie Howe's What the Living Do: Poems book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer

4. 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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5. Bucolics

By: Maurice Manning

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

Untitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this collection seem to cascade from one page to an… read more

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6. blud

By: Rachel McKibbens

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

McKibbens's blud is a collection of dark, rhythmic poems interested in the ways in which inherited … read more

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7. Lucky Wreck

By: Ada Limon

3.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. Ada Limon's fir… read more

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8. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
  • adult
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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9. 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

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Time Is a Mother book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
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10. 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 Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
"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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11. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

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  • queer
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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12. Vexations (Phoenix Poets)

By: Annelyse Gelman

4.38

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental boo… read more

Similar categories in Annelyse Gelman's Vexations (Phoenix Poets) book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
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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 Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
  • adult
"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 I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes

14. 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

Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
  • queer
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15. 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
  • adult
  • queer
"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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16. 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

Similar categories in Gabrielle Bates's Judas Goat: Poems book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
Cover of You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limon

17. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
  • adult
Cover of Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald

18. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

By: Isaac Fitzgerald

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, … read more

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19. 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 Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
"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 The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems by Sally Wen Mao

20. The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

By: Sally Wen Mao

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, “a consistently inspiring and exciting voice”… read more

Similar categories in Sally Wen Mao's The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
Cover of Magdalene: Poems by Marie Howe

21. Magdalene: Poems

By: Marie Howe

4.10

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene… read more

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  • poetry
"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing w…"

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only …"

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

Cover of Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali

22. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ghazal Ali's Theophanies book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

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

23. 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 Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
  • queer
Cover of The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

24. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

Cover of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas

25. 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 Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
Cover of To 2040 by Jorie Graham

26. To 2040

By: Jorie Graham

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single wor… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

27. Tripas: Poems

By: Brandon Som

3.95

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poet… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
Cover of a "Working Life" by Eileen Myles

28. a "Working Life"

By: Eileen Myles

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection … read more

Similar categories in Eileen Myles's a "Working Life" book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
  • queer
Cover of A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems by Mary Jo Bang

29. A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems

By: Mary Jo Bang

3.80

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked… read more

Similar categories in Mary Jo Bang's A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
Cover of Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature) by Holly Mitchell

30. Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

By: Holly Mitchell

4.71

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

The debut poetry collection from Holly Mitchell, Mare’s Nest , explores a Kentucky horse farm in it… read more

Similar categories in Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature) book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
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31. Snakedoctor

By: Maurice Manning

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From church barn to apple orchard, from snow-covered pasture to secret moonshine cabin, Manning’s S… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Manning's Snakedoctor book and Holly Mitchell's Mare's Nest (The Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature)

  • poetry

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Transform Your Habits

What the Living Do: Poems

Marie Howe

3.00

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

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Diane Seuss

4.50

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Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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From From: Poems

Monica Youn

4.18

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Anne Carson

4.33

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