19 must-read poetry books like Crawlspace by Nikki Wallschlaeger

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Crawlspace

By: Nikki Wallschlaeger

4.49

Format: None pages, None

They are writing down their feelings to put into the civil feelings jar, scuttling with amendments …

If you liked the poetry plot in Crawlspace by Nikki Wallschlaeger , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. White Buildings

By: Hart Crane , Allen Tate , John Logan

4.27

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This first book of poems by Hart Crane, one of his three major collections, was originally publishe… read more

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"نتكيّف خاضعين مكتفين بتعزيّات جزافية كتلك التى تضعها الريح فى جيوب عميقة وواسعة لأنه لا يزال فى وسعنا أن نحب العالم، نحن الذين نجد قطا صغيرا على العتبة ونعرف كيف نحميه من قساوة الشارع فى فجوة دافئة مغط…"

-Hart Crane, White Buildings

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2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Cover of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, Louis B. Wright, Virginia A. LaMar

3. Troilus and Cressida

By: William Shakespeare , Louis B. Wright , Virginia A. LaMar

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third… read more

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4. A Breath of Life

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Johnny Lorenz

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creati… read more

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5. Firstborn: Poems

By: Louise Glück

4.08

Format: 234 pages,

LoC: 6818259 ASIN: B000UE2H3Y read more

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6. Alphabet

By: Inger Christensen , Susanna Nied

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's transl… read more

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7. Red Doc>

By: Anne Carson

3.00

Format: 1118 pages, Hardcover

Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love w… 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.

10. Singing Knives (Poetry Series No 18)

By: Frank Stanford

3.90

Format: None pages,

Poetry. THE SINGING KNIVES, originally published in 1971 by Broughton's Mill Mountain Press, is Fra… read more

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11. 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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"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

12. Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems

By: Michael Hofmann , Durs Grünbein

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grunbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from t… read more

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13. 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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14. Measure for Measure

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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15. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

By: Clarice Lispector

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more

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"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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16. 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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Cover of The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

17. 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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"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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18. 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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"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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19. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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20. Intimations

By: Zadie Smith

3.99

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of loc… read more

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"Strange inversions proliferate."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"When in the presence of a child, get on the floor."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"The enviable style of the young is little protection against catastrophe."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

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21. 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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"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

Cover of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

22. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By: Terrance Hayes

4.27

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more

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"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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23. So to Speak (Penguin Poets)

By: Terrance Hayes

4.17

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–w… read more

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Cover of Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff

24. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

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  • poetry
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25. Refractive Africa

By: Will Alexander

3.98

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the California Book Award in Poetry Three kinetically… read more

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Cover of Outgoing Vessel by Ursula Andkjær Olsen

26. Outgoing Vessel

By: Ursula Andkjær Olsen

4.46

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen. this is a shape I cannot remain in. W… read more

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27. Mirror Nation

By: Don Mee Choi

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly… read more

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Cover of Forbidden Pleasures: New Selected Poems by Luis Cernuda

28. Forbidden Pleasures: New Selected Poems

By: Luis Cernuda

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Luis Cernuda (1902 -1963), was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanis… read more

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"Diré cómo nacisteis, placeres prohibidos, Como nace un deseo sobre torres de espanto"

-Luis Cernuda, Forbidden Pleasures: New Selected Poems

"Unos cuerpos son como flores, otros como puñales, otros como cintas de agua; pero todos, temprano o tarde, serán quemaduras que en otro cuerpo se agranden, convirtiendo por virtud del fuego a una pie…"

-Luis Cernuda, Forbidden Pleasures: New Selected Poems

Cover of The Contortionist Whispers by Will Alexander

29. The Contortionist Whispers

By: Will Alexander

4.17

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

“One is never trapped by what seems better or worse, but one simply exists, curiously rising above … read more

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30. Crawlspace

By: Nikki Wallschlaeger

4.49

Format: None pages, None

They are writing down their feelings to put into the civil feelings jar, scuttling with amendments … read more

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Cover of Tsunami from Solaris: Essays on Poetry (Salvo, 4) by Aase Berg

31. Tsunami from Solaris: Essays on Poetry (Salvo, 4)

By: Aase Berg

4.40

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Edited and translated by Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes G�ransson. For… read more

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  • poetry

9 must-read fiction books like Firstborn: Poems by Louise Glück

Transform Your Habits

Tropismes

Nathalie Sarraute

3.66

Transform Your Habits

A Season in Hell

Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Actual Air

David Berman

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Firstborn: Poems

Louise Glück

4.08

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