18 Top poetry books like A Horse with Holes in It: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets) by Greg Alan Brownderville

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A Horse with Holes in It: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)

By: Greg Alan Brownderville

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A Horse with Holes in It , Greg Alan Brownderville’s third collection of poetry, employs inventive …

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1. the black maria (American Poets Continuum)

By: Aracelis Girmay

4.38

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Praise for Aracelis "[Girmay's] every loss—she calls them estrangements—is a yearning for connect… read more

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2. Actual Air

By: David Berman

4.38

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

David Berman reinvents the overlooked and seemingly ordinary details of everyday life--from the sui… read more

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"He stood and watched the night push itself into the bar and the light push it back out."

-David Berman, Actual Air

"As a way of getting in touch with my origins every night I set the alarm clock for the time I was born so that waking up becomes a historical reenactment..."

-David Berman, Actual Air

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3. All of it Singing: New and Selected Poems

By: Linda Gregg

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Worlds out of time still exist. Worlds of achievement out of mind and remembering, just as the po… read more

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Cover of Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1) by Sophocles, J.E. Thomas, Elizabeth Osborne

4. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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5. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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6. What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford

By: Frank Stanford

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts." --Frank Stanford Thepoetry publishing ev… read more

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7. Selected Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

The overall arrangement of the poems is chronological. There is a brief chronology of O'Hara's shor… read more

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8. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

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"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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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

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10. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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11. 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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"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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12. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

Cover of Disease of Kings: Poems by Anders Carlson-Wee

13. Disease of Kings: Poems

By: Anders Carlson-Wee

4.48

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid chronicle of friendship amidst “a harrowing dive into late-empire America” (Patrick Phillip… read more

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Cover of Mothman Apologia by Robert Wood Lynn

14. Mothman Apologia

By: Robert Wood Lynn

4.52

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and comi… read more

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Cover of Sex Depression Animals: Poems (Journal CBWheeler Poetry Prize) by Mag Gabbert

15. Sex Depression Animals: Poems (Journal CBWheeler Poetry Prize)

By: Mag Gabbert

4.54

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

In SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery, insistent, and resistant te… read more

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Cover of The Thicket: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by Kasey Jueds

16. The Thicket: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

By: Kasey Jueds

4.69

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world—rivers, birds, stones—and… read more

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Cover of Fixer: Poems by Edgar Kunz

17. Fixer: Poems

By: Edgar Kunz

4.20

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edg… read more

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Cover of Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems by Linda Pastan

18. Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems

By: Linda Pastan

4.10

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A moving and incandescent volume from a poet celebrated for her “unfailing mastery of her medium” (… read more

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Cover of How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Lucille Clifton

19. How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

By: Lucille Clifton

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Edited with a Foreword by Aracelis Girmay, How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton ce… read more

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Cover of All Souls: Poems by Saskia Hamilton

20. All Souls: Poems

By: Saskia Hamilton

3.68

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

In All Souls , Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the… read more

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Cover of The Life (Penguin Poets) by Carrie Fountain

21. The Life (Penguin Poets)

By: Carrie Fountain

4.02

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An acclaimed poet deepens her exploration of the domestic in a new collection of playful and wise p… read more

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"There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself"

-Carrie Fountain, The Life (Penguin Poets)

"I want every- thing, I admit. I want yes of course and I want it all the time."

-Carrie Fountain, The Life (Penguin Poets)

Cover of A Horse with Holes in It: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets) by Greg Alan Brownderville

22. A Horse with Holes in It: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)

By: Greg Alan Brownderville

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A Horse with Holes in It , Greg Alan Brownderville’s third collection of poetry, employs inventive … read more

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28 must-read poetry books like Mothman Apologia by Robert Wood Lynn

Transform Your Habits

Crush

Richard Siken

3.67

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Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

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frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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