13 must-read poetry books like Peces de pelea by Moriana Delgado

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Peces de pelea

By: Moriana Delgado

4.26

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Peces de pelea es una carta de amor a una lengua extranjera. Escritos tras una estancia en China y …

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Cover of Poesía no eres tú by Rosario Castellanos

1. Poesía no eres tú

By: Rosario Castellanos

4.45

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
"Ah, sería preferible morir. Pero yo sé que para mí no hay muerte. Porque el dolor —¿y qué otra cosa soy más que dolor?— me ha hecho eterna. La expresión de ese dolor, la explosión emocional de la muj…"

-Rosario Castellanos, Poesía no eres tú

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2. Averno

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more

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  • poetry
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."

-Louise Glück, Averno

"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

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3. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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4. El apando

By: José Revueltas

3.50

Format: 304 pages,

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5. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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6. Bonsai

By: Alejandro Zambra

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel" Now a Major Motion Picture Hailed as a g… read more

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7. Ninguna eternidad como la mía

By: Ángeles Mastretta

3.93

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

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8. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

By: Terry Tempest Williams

3.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more

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9. 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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10. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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11. Perras de reserva

By: Dahlia de la Cerda

4.28

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

“Las mujeres podemos ser muy horribles, plebe” Para sobrevivir en los rincones más injustos del pa… read more

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"Lo que empieza recio, recio se termina."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

"México es un monstruo enorme que devora a las mujeres. México es un desierto hecho de polvo de huesos. México es un cementerio de cruces rosas. México es un país que odia a las mujeres."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

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12. 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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  • poetry
"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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13. Huaco retrato

By: Gabriela Wiener

3.89

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more

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14. Teoría de la gravedad

By: Leila Guerriero

4.38

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

En esta sección de columnas, publicadas a lo largo de más de cinco años en la contraportada de El P… read more

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  • poetry
"Sólo cuando sé que mi hija está condenada por mi, que la traje al mundo para morir y acepto eso, es cuando puedo ser su padre de manera cabal, liberándola y liberándome"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

"El olor del jabón y de las flores. La casa navegando como un barco hacia el verano. Y yo, en medio de todo, feliz de una manera perfecta y peligrosa. Con la única clase de felicidad que iba a salvarm…"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

"Cuando nacés tenés esencia. Después, eempieza a aparecer la personalidad. La personalidad trabaja en contra de la esencia. En nuestra cultura capitalista de demanda constante, rinde la personalidad. …"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

"Tuve un despertar súbito bajo la forma de pregunta ardiente: "¿Qué estoy haciendo acá?". Entonces él —ya saben, ni siquiera es amor— me preguntó sonriendo: "¿Te gusta?". No estábamos ahí construyendo…"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

Cover of Diario del dolor (Vindictas, #8) by María Luisa Puga

15. Diario del dolor (Vindictas, #8)

By: María Luisa Puga

4.10

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Los cien fragmentos de los que se compone este breve y poderoso diario son aproximaciones a la expe… read more

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16. El reino de lo no lineal

By: Elisa Díaz Castelo

4.37

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

El reino de lo no lineal de Elisa Díaz Castelo, ganadora del Premio Bellas Artes de Poesía Aguascal… read more

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  • poetry
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17. The Undying

By: Anne Boyer

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggr… read more

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  • poetry
"Amnesia is vice-president to pain and the mother of philosophy."

-Anne Boyer, The Undying

"You will understand, I hope, that because of all of this, every pink ribbon looks like the flag of a conqueror stuck in a woman's grave."

-Anne Boyer, The Undying

"As soon as a patient lies down on the exam table, she has laid down her life on a bed of narrowed answers, but the questions are never sufficiently clear."

-Anne Boyer, The Undying

"A person who complains about any aspect of breast cancer treatment in public is often drowned out by a chorus of people, many of whom have never had cancer, accusing her of ingratitude, saying she is…"

-Anne Boyer, The Undying

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18. Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

By: Brigitte Vasallo

4.27

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Este libro es una investigación histórica sobre la centralidad de la monogamia en nuestras construc… read more

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"The times of literature defy time because, for it, time is a minor invention."

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

"Books are born from guts, from the need of writing them, and are read in the same way, in the angst to read them, from a primite need."

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

"O poliamor não vem definido pelo número de relações, e sim pelo tipo de relação que têm os meta-amores entre si: se é de cooperação e cuidados mútuos, ou de confrontação e batalha pelo topo."

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

"À guerra pela patria vão os sujeitos subalternos em primeiro lugar, como nas guerras amorosas as mulheres e os sujeitos subalternizados pelo regime do desejo heterossexual são os primeiros a serem sa…"

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

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19. Todo lo que se mueve

By: Valeria Mata

4.58

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Los textos e imágenes reunidos en este libro son fruto del desplazamiento. Una mezcla entre escritu… read more

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20. La sunamita

By: Inés Arredondo

4.11

Format: 31 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Con resonancias bíblicas, La Sunamita —quizá el cuento más conocido de Inés Arredondo— narra la his… read more

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21. El sueño de toda célula

By: Maricela Guerrero

4.21

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

En El sueño de toda célula, Maricela Guerrero se interna en el territorio íntimo pero a la vez cole… read more

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  • poetry
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22. Principia

By: Elisa Díaz Castelo

4.49

Format: None pages, None

Los poemas de Principia son rezos ateos que celebran aquello que no podemos ver. Elisa Díaz Castelo… read more

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  • poetry
"Y la ridícula tristeza, como si el planeta hubiera de hecho desaparecido, erosionado, hundido en su apogeo de sombra, cerrado sobre sí mismo como un camino que ya nadie recorre."

-Elisa Díaz Castelo, Principia

"No creo en el Apocalipsis, pero ya casi no veo pájaros. Se habrán hecho ceniza. No creo en el Apocalipsis, pero la Tierra terminará de mala manera: crecerá el Sol moribundo hasta alcanzarla. Hipertro…"

-Elisa Díaz Castelo, Principia

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23. Ensayos para una historia de economía doméstica

By: Eva Castañeda

4.24

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

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24. Migraciones

By: Gloria Gervitz

4.54

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
Cover of Ya no tengo fuerza para ser civilizada by Iveth Luna Flores

25. Ya no tengo fuerza para ser civilizada

By: Iveth Luna Flores

4.04

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

¿Qué permanece en la memoria? ¿Por qué hay situaciones que emergen una y otra vez al pensar en algu… read more

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  • poetry
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26. Cuadernos de patología humana

By: Orlando Mondragón

4.31

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Orlando Mondrag¢n (Ciudad Altamirano, M‚xico, 1993) es poeta y m‚dico cirujano. En 2017 debut¢ con … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Una pequeña fiesta llamada Eternidad by Gabriela Wiener

27. Una pequeña fiesta llamada Eternidad

By: Gabriela Wiener

3.65

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

En este, su segundo poemario, Wiener transita por las imágenes de un pasado reciente en el que conv… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Memorias y transfiguraciones (Spanish Edition) by Alaíde Foppa

28. Memorias y transfiguraciones (Spanish Edition)

By: Alaíde Foppa

4.18

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Desde la primera vez que leí estos poemas, me sorprendió la discordancia con el resto de la obra de… read more

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29. Peces de pelea

By: Moriana Delgado

4.26

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Peces de pelea es una carta de amor a una lengua extranjera. Escritos tras una estancia en China y … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of La raíz negra de los astros by Nadia Escalante Andrade

30. La raíz negra de los astros

By: Nadia Escalante Andrade

4.50

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

"Todo poema es un mapa", escribe Escalante Andrade. En efecto: los ejercicios cartográficos en este… read more

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Cover of Se descubre una grabación de Eurídice en la web by Elisa Díaz Castelo

31. Se descubre una grabación de Eurídice en la web

By: Elisa Díaz Castelo

4.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Elisa Díaz Castelo revisita y actualiza el mito órfico, pero desde la voz acallada —muerta— de Eurí… read more

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10 must-read fiction books like Perras de reserva by Dahlia de la Cerda

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Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Transform Your Habits

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Dahlia de la Cerda

4.28

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Brenda Navarro

4.07

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Liliana Blum

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