11 best-selling poetry books like Sycamore: Poems by Kathy Fagan

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Sycamore: Poems

By: Kathy Fagan

4.43

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS AWARD Meditative and richly written, this collection of poems by Ka…

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1. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

Similar categories in Louise Glück's The Wild Iris book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

  • poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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2. A Thousand Mornings: Poems

By: Mary Oliver

4.21

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more

Similar categories in Mary Oliver's A Thousand Mornings: Poems book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

  • poetry
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

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3. The Thin Man

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more

Similar categories in Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

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4. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

Similar categories in Unknown's Beowulf book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

  • poetry
"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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5. Good Bones

By: Maggie Smith

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children t… read more

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  • poetry

6. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

Similar categories in Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

7. The Tale of Despereaux

By: Kate DiCamillo , Timothy Basil Ering

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Ka… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's The Tale of Despereaux book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

8. Listen to the Warm

By: Rod McKuen

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in Rod McKuen's Listen to the Warm book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

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9. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more

Similar categories in Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

10. Thrall

By: Natasha Trethewey

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by America's new Poe… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Trethewey's Thrall book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

11. Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The third installment in the all-new series from the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie St… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Stiefvater's Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3) book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

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12. 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

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Time Is a Mother book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

  • poetry
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13. Light from Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki

4.06

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more

Similar categories in Ryka Aoki's Light from Uncommon Stars book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

"Lindsey Stirling?"

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."

-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

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14. 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

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

  • poetry
"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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15. 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

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

  • 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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16. The End of Men

By: Christina Sweeney-Baird

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unfo… read more

Similar categories in Christina Sweeney-Baird's The End of Men book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

"No one handed me any of this. I built this weird, challenging, rewarding life in London for myself. Why not me?"

-Christina Sweeney-Baird, The End of Men

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17. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

Similar categories in Téa Obreht's The Morningside book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

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18. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

Similar categories in Clint Smith's Above Ground book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

  • poetry
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19. The Book of Doors

By: Gareth Brown

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie An… read more

Similar categories in Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

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20. Deluge

By: Leila Chatti

4.55

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this … read more

Similar categories in Leila Chatti's Deluge book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

  • poetry
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21. The Kissing of Kissing

By: Hannah Emerson

3.77

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse—a literary series written and cur… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Emerson's The Kissing of Kissing book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Sycamore: Poems by Kathy Fagan

22. Sycamore: Poems

By: Kathy Fagan

4.43

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS AWARD Meditative and richly written, this collection of poems by Ka… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems book and Kathy Fagan's Sycamore: Poems

  • poetry

29 must-read poetry books like The Kissing of Kissing by Hannah Emerson

Transform Your Habits

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Ross Gay

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Electric Arches

Eve L. Ewing

4.00

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Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

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