7 Best poetry books like This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years by Robert Bly

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This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years

By: Robert Bly

3.55

Format: None pages, Hardcover

His sixth major collection of poetry.

If you liked the poetry plot in This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years by Robert Bly , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Dream Work

By: Mary Oliver

4.35

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more

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  • poetry
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

2. 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

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3. 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

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  • poetry
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4. Matrix

By: Lauren Groff

3.68

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furie… read more

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"All souls are limited in the circles of their own understanding."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Foolish creature, old Marie would say to that child. Open your hands and let your life go. It has never been yours to do with what you will."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

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5. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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6. The Girl from the Sea

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first lov… read more

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"Sometimes plans must change, my love."

-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

"*creepy ghost whispers* morgan... THAT'S IT SHE'S DEAD"

-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

"Sometimes you have to let your life get messy. That's how you get to the good parts"

-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

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7. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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  • poetry
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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8. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver

4.58

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more

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"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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9. What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems

By: Bianca Stone

4.21

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

Written in four sections with incisive and vivid lyrical language, Bianca Stone’s What is Otherwise… read more

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  • poetry
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10. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

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11. This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years

By: Robert Bly

3.55

Format: None pages, Hardcover

His sixth major collection of poetry. read more

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6 Top adult books like Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Carrying

Ada Limon

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

4.58

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