19 best-selling poetry books like Safe Houses I Have Known by Steve Healey

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Safe Houses I Have Known

By: Steve Healey

3.52

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

As a child during the height of the Cold War, Steve Healey learns that his father is a spy for the …

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1. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

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  • poetry
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2. Dancing in Odessa

By: Ilya Kaminsky

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky … read more

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3. Versed

By: Rae Armantrout

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010) Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (20… read more

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4. Killing and Dying: Stories

By: Adrian Tomine

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more

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5. Mortal Trash: Poems

By: Kim Addonizio

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trashtransports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desi… read more

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6. 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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7. Itself

By: Rae Armantrout

3.48

Format: None pages, ebook

What do "self" and "it" have in common? In Rae Armantrout's new poems, there is no inert substance.… read more

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8. Money Shot

By: Rae Armantrout

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Money Shot are forensic. Just as the money shot in porn is proof of the male orgasm, t… read more

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9. War of the Foxes

By: Richard Siken

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more

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10. A Place Called No Homeland

By: Kai Cheng Thom

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

This extraordinary poetry collection journeys to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monst… read more

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11. Bright Minds Empty Souls

By: Jennae Cecelia

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bright Minds Empty Souls is for the hopeless romantics and those who need a friend to comfort their… read more

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12. Stag's Leap: Poems

By: Sharon Olds

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more

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13. The Last Two Seconds: Poems

By: Mary Jo Bang

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

The eagerly awaited new poetry collection by Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circ… read more

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14. 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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15. Inward

By: Yung Pueblo

4.22

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Inward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to un… read more

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  • poetry
"i can only give to you what i have already given to myself i can only understand the world as much as i understand myself"

-Yung Pueblo, Inward

"to expect another to resolve all of our issues and give us the happiness we desire is to expect to see the sunrise without opening our own eyes. it is to ask a river to give us nourishment without di…"

-Yung Pueblo, Inward

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16. Be With

By: Forrest Gander

3.80

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Publisher… read more

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  • poetry
"You find yourself in another world you weren’t looking for where what you see is that you have always been the wolves at the door. Left ajar, gaping, your own door."

-Forrest Gander, Be With

"The break-hard determination to be a good person, what happened to that? How is it true I have to go now? She's lost my name, but the occasion of my presence begs more. Who is my mother now I am unsp…"

-Forrest Gander, Be With

"At which point my grief-sounds ricocheted outside of language. Something like a drifting swarm of bees. At which point in the tetric silence that followed I was swarmed by those bees and lost conscio…"

-Forrest Gander, Be With

"At which point I grew old and it was like ripping open the beehive with my hands again. At which point I conceived a realm more real than life. At which point there was at least some possibility. Som…"

-Forrest Gander, Be With

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17. 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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18. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

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  • poetry
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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19. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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  • poetry
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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20. 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

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  • 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

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21. Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

By: Noah Kagan

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The founder and CEO of AppSumo.com, Noah Kagan, knows how to launch a seven-figure business in a si… read more

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22. Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.94

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Return to the world of Godkiller in this thrilling sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling fan… read more

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"Some things are done out of love."

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Knowledge can bring pain in place of ignorance, terror in place of hope' - Telle"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Some truths are too bright to look at directly, that is why they couch them in paper.' - Scian"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"If we commit to violence, when will it stop?’ ‘If we do not,’ countered Elo, ‘will anything change?’ - Elogast"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

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23. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

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  • poetry
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24. The Sun Will Rise and So Will We

By: Jennae Cecelia

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of poems written for YOU as a reminder that better days are ahead and there is still s… read more

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  • poetry
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25. The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy)

By: Yung Pueblo

4.42

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this thir… 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. This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.49

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more

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  • poetry
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

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28. Woke Up No Light

By: Leila Mottley

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakl… read more

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

29. 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

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  • 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

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30. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

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31. Safe Houses I Have Known

By: Steve Healey

3.52

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

As a child during the height of the Cold War, Steve Healey learns that his father is a spy for the … read more

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