18 best-selling poetry books like Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 221, Issue #6, March 2023 by Adrian Matejka

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Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 221, Issue #6, March 2023

By: Adrian Matejka

3.48

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Featuring: JENNY GEORGE LAURA VILLAREAL JAY DESHPANDE NAM LE ARI WOLFF DOROTHEA LASKY KINSAL…

If you liked the poetry plot in Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 221, Issue #6, March 2023 by Adrian Matejka , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Public Library and Other Stories

By: Ali Smith

2.86

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of th… read more

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2. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more

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3. Autumn

By: Ali Smith

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning auth… read more

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4. Alphabet

By: Inger Christensen , Susanna Nied

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's transl… read more

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5. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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6. Soft City

By: None

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

A graphic novel with perhaps the oddest backstory ever, Pushwagners Soft City was created in the 19… read more

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7. The Waste Land and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more

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8. Flights

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more

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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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

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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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12. Vexations (Phoenix Poets)

By: Annelyse Gelman

4.38

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental boo… read more

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Cover of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

13. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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14. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

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"to be loved, was just to be watched"

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

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15. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

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"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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16. Who Reads Poetry: 50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine

By: Fred Sasaki

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Who reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us?  When and why do we turn to… read more

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Cover of Modern Poetry: Poems by Diane Seuss

17. 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

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18. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

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19. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

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"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

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20. Weirdo

By: Sara Pascoe

3.28

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more

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21. 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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"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 Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate: Poems (Ecco Essentials) by James Tate

22. Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate: Poems (Ecco Essentials)

By: James Tate

4.28

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems that will captivate today’s readers, wi… read more

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Cover of The Lights: Poems by Ben Lerner

23. The Lights: Poems

By: Ben Lerner

3.84

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more

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Cover of Grand Tour: Poems by Elisa Gonzalez

24. Grand Tour: Poems

By: Elisa Gonzalez

3.92

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it g… read more

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Cover of Promises of Gold by José Olivarez

25. Promises of Gold

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more

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26. Fixer: Poems

By: Edgar Kunz

4.20

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edg… read more

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27. Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A new collection of poems from one of America’s most e… read more

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Cover of Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems by Catherine Barnett

28. Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems

By: Catherine Barnett

4.45

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The loneliness that collects in mirrors and faces―at bedside vigils and in city streets―quickens Ca… read more

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Cover of Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 221, Issue #6, March 2023 by Adrian Matejka

29. Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 221, Issue #6, March 2023

By: Adrian Matejka

3.48

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Featuring: JENNY GEORGE LAURA VILLAREAL JAY DESHPANDE NAM LE ARI WOLFF DOROTHEA LASKY KINSAL… read more

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Cover of The Paris Review, Issue 244, Summer 2023 by Emily Stokes

30. The Paris Review, Issue 244, Summer 2023

By: Emily Stokes

3.83

Format: 253 pages, Perfectbound

FICTION Caleb Crain - The Letter Rachel B. Glaser - Dead Woman James Lasdun - Helen Juliana Lei… read more

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19 Best poetry books like Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate: Poems (Ecco Essentials) by James Tate

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass

4.29

Transform Your Habits

King Me

Roger Reeves

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

3.45

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