16 Best poetry books like Forget Thee by Ian Dreiblatt

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Forget Thee

By: Ian Dreiblatt

4.68

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In forget thee, Dreiblatt’s first full-length book of poetry, an anonymous narrator ruminates on th…

"you can only mourn things one at a time you cannot mourn an entire world all at once"

-Ian Dreiblatt, Forget Thee

"you can only mourn things one at a time you cannot mourn an entire world all at once"

-Ian Dreiblatt, Forget Thee

If you liked the poetry plot in Forget Thee by Ian Dreiblatt , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

1. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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2. Weather

By: Jenny Offill

3.55

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a v… read more

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"How do you know all this?"

-Jenny Offill, Weather

"They say when you're lonely you start to lose words."

-Jenny Offill, Weather

"Later, I remember to tell Ben about the girl. “Seconds!"

-Jenny Offill, Weather

"If only I’d remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep. "

-Jenny Offill, Weather

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3. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

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"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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4. Triptychs

By: Sandra Simonds

4.41

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Sandra Simonds’s Triptychs is a brilliant intersection of poetic form and the passage of time. C… read more

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5. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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6. 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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7. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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8. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

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9. Normal Distance

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A collection of funny and thought-provoking poems inspired by surprising facts that will appeal to … read more

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10. 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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11. Ædnan

By: Linnea Axelsson

4.23

Format: 762 pages, Hardcover

Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more

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12. Blood Snow

By: dg nanouk okpik

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

American Book Award–winning poet dg okpik’s second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continu… read more

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13. Yellow Rain: Poems

By: Mai Der Vang

4.37

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FI… read more

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14. Slim Confessions

By: Sarah Minor

4.68

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Slim Confessions is an image-text about digital intimacy and visceral material. A work of “autotheo… read more

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15. All Souls: Poems

By: Saskia Hamilton

3.68

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

In All Souls , Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the… read more

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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

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17. Transgressive Circulation

By: Johannes Göransson

4.62

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry, Frost is often quoted as having said, is what is lost in translation, … read more

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Cover of Path of Totality: Poems by Niina Pollari

18. Path of Totality: Poems

By: Niina Pollari

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Exploring the sudden loss of her child, the hope that precedes this crisis, and the suffering that … read more

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19. Forget Thee

By: Ian Dreiblatt

4.68

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In forget thee, Dreiblatt’s first full-length book of poetry, an anonymous narrator ruminates on th… read more

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"you can only mourn things one at a time you cannot mourn an entire world all at once"

-Ian Dreiblatt, Forget Thee

"you can only mourn things one at a time you cannot mourn an entire world all at once"

-Ian Dreiblatt, Forget Thee

Cover of The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer by Tomas Tranströmer

20. The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer

By: Tomas Tranströmer

4.65

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

Nobel Prize-winner Tomas Tranströmer explores the personal and political, the ecological and existe… read more

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21. WATCHNIGHT

By: Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

4.64

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

In WATCHNIGHT , we accompany Johnson’s unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad for… read more

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Jennifer Croft

3.26

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3.89

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