8 Top poetry books like Code Poems by Hannah Weiner

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Code Poems

By: Hannah Weiner

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

“I am interested in exploring methods of communication that will be understood face to face or at a…

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Cover of How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti

1. How Should a Person Be?

By: Sheila Heti

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Middle Storiesand Ticknorcomes a bold interrogatio… read more

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2. A Bernadette Mayer Reader

By: Bernadette Mayer

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

"What a clear, insistent health there is here--as if the so-called world were seriously the point, … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard, Wayne Koestenbaum

3. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more

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4. After Lorca

By: Jack Spicer

3.82

Format: None pages,

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Cover of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, Anne Carson

5. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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  • poetry
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6. Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more

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  • poetry

7. 4.48 Psychosis

By: Sarah Kane

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

4.48 Psychosissees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the se… read more

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8. The Hour of the Star

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more

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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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9. The Passion According to G.H.

By: Clarice Lispector , None

4.13

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more

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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

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10. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

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"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

11. Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing

By: Hélène Cixous , Susan Sellers

3.08

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

"Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing" is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration o… read more

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12. Nightwood

By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more

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13. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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  • poetry
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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14. 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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15. Autobiography of Death

By: Kim Hyesoon

4.08

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nin… read more

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  • poetry
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16. Say Translation is Art

By: Sawako Nakayasu

4.62

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

SAY TRANSLATION IS ART is a treatise on literary translation that exceeds the bounds of conventiona… read more

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  • poetry
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17. Code Poems

By: Hannah Weiner

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

“I am interested in exploring methods of communication that will be understood face to face or at a… read more

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  • poetry
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9 Best classics books like A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard, Wayne Koestenbaum

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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

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Eros the Bittersweet

Anne Carson

4.00

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