13 Top queer books like sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar

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sulphurtongue

By: Rebecca Salazar

4.19

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and co…

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1. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

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  • poetry

2. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

By: Morgan Parker

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonceuses political and pop-cultural references as a framewo… read more

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3. 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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4. Islands of Decolonial Love

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist … read more

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5. A Really Good Brown Girl

By: Marilyn Dumont

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

NOW AVAILABLE IN A NEW EDITION - A Really Good Brown Girl: Brick Books Classics 4, ISBN 97817713134… read more

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6. What Kind of Woman: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.07

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more

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  • poetry
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

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7. Heart Berries

By: Terese Marie Mailhot

3.84

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more

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  • poetry
"Pain expanded my heart."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"You are such a home to me."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

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8. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Kate Baer returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers… read more

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  • poetry
"I wanted art / poetry was hidden in so much in so many ways"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

"women want to live without fear For thousands of years We were not believed this is what we carry"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

"You were designed to find satisfaction in your excellence Your nature cannot be retrofitted to the male without permanent damage to the original design"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

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9. 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
  • lgbt
  • queer
"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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10. 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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11. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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  • poetry
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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12. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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13. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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14. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more

Similar categories in Jen Sookfong Lee's Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart book and Rebecca Salazar's sulphurtongue

  • canada
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15. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

By: Samra Habib

4.16

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more

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  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer
"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

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16. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

By: Megan Fox

3.76

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over… read more

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  • poetry
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17. Making Love with the Land: Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more

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  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

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18. Cyclopedia Exotica

By: Aminder Dhaliwal

4.31

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

"Dhaliwal created a fictitious community facing xenophobia, fetishization, and media misrepresentat… read more

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  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer
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19. I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

By: Halsey

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Grammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling … read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"I'm whatever I've seen, on a movie screen"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"cause I won't love a man Unless he is angry Because of my father"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too young; too early."

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"I can't remember what it's like to face a mirror And not hate the person staring back at me"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

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20. 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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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"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

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21. it was never going to be okay

By: jaye simpson

4.35

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Sovereignty, vulnerability, honesty." — Ms. Magazine it was never going to be okay is a collection… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer
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22. The Vanishing Hour

By: Seraphina Nova Glass

3.81

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

"Glass weaves a taut web of suspicion, murder and revenge in this chilling tale."—Liv Constantine, … read more

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23. Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 2: Edge of Everything

By: G. Willow Wilson

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive aftermath of their shocking discovery has pushed captain Grix and acolyte Vess to the… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
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24. Eat the Rich

By: Sarah Gailey

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When the rich and powerful are literal cannibals, how can regular people avoid being on the menu?WE… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist

25. Disintegrate/Dissociate

By: Arielle Twist

4.22

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relati… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer
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26. The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets)

By: Su Cho

3.83

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about i… read more

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  • poetry
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27. Her Body Among Animals

By: Paola Ferrante

3.72

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture and sci-fi, women c… read more

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  • canada
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28. An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series)

By: Cherie Dimaline

4.36

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

An Anthology of Monsters by Cherie Dimaline, award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, is the tal… read more

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"Lee Maracle used to always talk about this. She explained that celebrating yourself, holding your hard work and successes up, meant that your community then had the opportunity to celebrate and hope …"

-Cherie Dimaline, An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series)

"Lee Maracle used to always talk about this. She explained that celebrating yourself, holding your hard work and successes up, meant that your community than hand the opportunity to celebrate and hold…"

-Cherie Dimaline, An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series)

"The best thing I can give myself as a person who suffers with acute anxiety is unconditional love. And that seems easy to say, but it has been almost impossible to practice. Unconditional —without co…"

-Cherie Dimaline, An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety (CLC Kreisel Lecture Series)

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29. sulphurtongue

By: Rebecca Salazar

4.19

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and co… read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer
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30. Trinity Street: Poems

By: Jen Currin

4.00

Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition

Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fift… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
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31. Sedley

By: Chelsea Coupal

4.06

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Although many readers may be familiar with stories about rural Saskatchewan from the early 20th cen… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada

18 Top poetry books like sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar

Transform Your Habits

The World's Wife

Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Transform Your Habits

What Kind of Woman: Poems

Kate Baer

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Heart Berries

Terese Marie Mailhot

3.84

Transform Your Habits

I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

Kate Baer

4.28

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12 must-read contemporary books like Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

If They Come for Us

Fatimah Asghar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Girls That Never Die: Poems

Safia Elhillo

4.30

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