15 best-selling poetry books like The Hardy Tree by Linda Bierds

Cover of The Hardy Tree by Linda Bierds

The Hardy Tree

By: Linda Bierds

3.73

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Focusing on figures such as Thomas Hardy, Alan Turing, Virginia Woolf, and the World War One poets,…

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1. Blood Dazzler

By: Patricia Smith

4.42

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-bl… read more

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2. Slow Lightning

By: Eduardo C. Corral

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such dis… read more

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Cover of The Zürau Aphorisms by Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann, Roberto Calasso, Geoffrey Brock

3. The Zürau Aphorisms

By: Franz Kafka , Michael Hofmann , Roberto Calasso , Geoffrey Brock

3.68

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are… read more

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"Usko kuin kirves. Yhtä raskas, yhtä kevyt."

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

"چه‌طور می‌توان در دنیا شادمان بود مگر با گریختن از آن؟"

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

"از رقیب راستین، شجاعت بی‌نهایتی به درون تو جریان دارد."

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

"Meidän on aina kärsittävä itse kaikki aiheuttamamme kärsimys."

-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

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4. The Weary Blues

By: Langston Hughes

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when … read more

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  • poetry

5. Master Harold...and the boys

By: Athol Fugard

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Paperback

The role that won Zakes Mokae a Tony Award brought Danny Glover back to the New York stage for the … read more

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6. She Had Some Horses

By: Joy Harjo

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this powerful collection of poetry, Creek Indian Joy Harjo explores womanhood's most intimate mo… read more

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7. Box

By: Robert Wrigley

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A powerful new collection from an acclaimed, award-winning poet With nine previously published coll… read more

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8. 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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  • poetry
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9. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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10. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

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11. 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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12. 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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13. From From: Poems

By: Monica Youn

4.18

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more

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  • poetry
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14. 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

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  • poetry
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15. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

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16. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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  • poetry
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

Cover of Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves

17. Best Barbarian: Poems

By: Roger Reeves

4.10

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more

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Cover of The Invention of the Darling: Poems by Li-Young Lee

18. The Invention of the Darling: Poems

By: Li-Young Lee

3.73

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee offers a revelatory volume of ecstatic poems that search out divine voi… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Guillotine: Poems by Eduardo C. Corral

19. Guillotine: Poems

By: Eduardo C. Corral

4.34

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith

20. Wade in the Water: Poems

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.10

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more

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"History is a ship forever setting sail."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

Cover of The Hardy Tree by Linda Bierds

21. The Hardy Tree

By: Linda Bierds

3.73

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Focusing on figures such as Thomas Hardy, Alan Turing, Virginia Woolf, and the World War One poets,… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

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Tom Crewe

3.77

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3.81

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