17 Top poetry books like Patriarchy Blues by Rena Priest

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Patriarchy Blues

By: Rena Priest

4.19

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

"Rena Priest addresses those who crave 'the meat of beasts with beets and leeks.' And while she ins…

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1. Palestine

By: None , Joe Sacco

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more

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2. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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3. Today Will Be Different

By: Maria Semple

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A genius novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Fl… read more

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4. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

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5. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

By: Amanda Gorman

4.56

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9780593465271 can be found here. On January 20, 2021,… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
"So while we once asked: How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert: How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it, If only we're brave enough to be it."

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be …"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

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6. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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7. 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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  • poetry
  • adult
"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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8. 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
  • adult
"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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9. 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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  • poetry
"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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10. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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11. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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12. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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13. Tokyo These Days, Volume 1

By: Taiyo Matsumoto

3.96

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a m… read more

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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
  • adult
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15. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

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  • adult
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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16. Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq

3.91

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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17. I'm Afraid of Men

By: Vivek Shraya

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more

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"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

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18. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.14

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of… read more

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19. The Renunciations: Poems

By: Donika Kelly

4.29

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
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20. VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more

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  • adult
"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

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21. 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

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  • poetry
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22. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By: Kim Fu

3.86

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more

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  • adult
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

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23. Rose Quartz: Poems

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.17

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing—and a s… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
"keep this / with you / it is part / of your story / sometimes / to remember / a wound / is the way / of healing"

-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems

"How is it I have never dated / someone who is also Coast Salish / or at least Indigenous / instead it's Disney's Pocahontas / her animated dad with his hands up / these white men are dangerous / and …"

-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems

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24. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

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  • adult
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25. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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26. A Fortune for Your Disaster

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: None pages, None

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
Cover of Conan the Barbarian: Bound in Black Stone, Vol. 1 by Jim Zub

27. Conan the Barbarian: Bound in Black Stone, Vol. 1

By: Jim Zub

4.07

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

He forged a whole new genre – sword and sorcery. He spawned a thousand imitators and after 90 years… read more

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28. A frog in the fall (and later on)

By: Linnea Sterte

4.59

Format: 338 pages, ebook

A young frog (hatched this spring) encounters two toads, who have captured the ghost of a Shungiku … read more

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29. Instruments of the True Measure: Poems (Volume 83) (Sun Tracks)

By: Laura Da'

4.38

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Instruments of the True Measure charts the coordinates and intersections of land, history, and cult… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
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30. Patriarchy Blues

By: Rena Priest

4.19

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

"Rena Priest addresses those who crave 'the meat of beasts with beets and leeks.' And while she ins… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
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31. Breakpoint

By: Betsy Aoki

4.17

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

National Poetry Series Finalist and winner of the Patricia Bibby First Book Award, Breakpoint is a … read more

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  • poetry

18 must-read adult books like Patriarchy Blues by Rena Priest

Transform Your Habits

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

Amanda Gorman

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Renunciations: Poems

Donika Kelly

4.29

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