17 must-read poetry books like Lying In: Poems by Elizabeth Metzger

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Lying In: Poems

By: Elizabeth Metzger

3.93

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief. “A…

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1. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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2. The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems

By: Larry Levis , David St. John

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

The empty bar that someone was supposed to swing to him Did not arrive, & so his outstretched flesh… read more

Similar categories in Larry Levis's The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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3. Dept. of Speculation

By: Jenny Offill

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

4. Red Bird

By: Mary Oliver

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's… read more

Similar categories in Mary Oliver's Red Bird book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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5. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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6. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry: Poems book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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7. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Bates's Judas Goat: Poems book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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8. A Hundred Lovers: Poems

By: Richie Hofmann

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly a… read more

Similar categories in Richie Hofmann's A Hundred Lovers: Poems book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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9. 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 Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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10. You Get What You Pay For: Essays

By: Morgan Parker

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For: Essays book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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11. Girlhood

By: Melissa Febos

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Febos's Girlhood book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

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12. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

Similar categories in Sam Sax's Pig: Poems book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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13. Burying the Mountain

By: Shangyang Fang

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult… read more

Similar categories in Shangyang Fang's Burying the Mountain book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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14. 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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Cover of Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

15. Tripas: Poems

By: Brandon Som

3.95

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poet… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Som's Tripas: Poems book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

  • poetry
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16. Alt-Nature

By: Saretta Morgan

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

To foil the context was to outrun the authority’s imagination. And to refuse all explanations of wh… read more

Similar categories in Saretta Morgan's Alt-Nature book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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Cover of How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Seedbank) by Mikeas Sánchez

17. How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Seedbank)

By: Mikeas Sánchez

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the … read more

Similar categories in Mikeas Sánchez's How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Seedbank) book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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Cover of Lying In: Poems by Elizabeth Metzger

18. Lying In: Poems

By: Elizabeth Metzger

3.93

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief. “A… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

  • poetry
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19. Hatch

By: Jenny Irish

4.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Groundbreaking feminist poems featuring an artificial womb and an apocalyptic futureThe prose poems… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Irish's Hatch book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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20. Mojave Ghost

By: Forrest Gander

4.33

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Mojave Ghost initiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relati… read more

Similar categories in Forrest Gander's Mojave Ghost book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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21. We Borrowed Gentleness

By: J. Estanislao Lopez

4.63

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

We Borrowed Gentleness interrogates the innateness of pain and forms of destruction—through natural… read more

Similar categories in J. Estanislao Lopez's We Borrowed Gentleness book and Elizabeth Metzger's Lying In: Poems

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9 must-read nonfiction books like Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

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Diane Seuss

4.50

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Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Monica Youn

4.18

Transform Your Habits

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Anne Carson

4.33

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