12 must-read poetry books like The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan

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The Ink Cloud Reader

By: Kit Fan

3.71

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In his disquieting third collection The Ink Cloud Reader, Kit Fan takes enormous risks linguistical…

If you liked the poetry plot in The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver

1. A Thousand Mornings: Poems

By: Mary Oliver

4.21

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more

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"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Cover of Look by Solmaz Sharif

2. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

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3. Glass, Irony and God

By: Guy Davenport , Anne Carson

4.32

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with s… read more

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"...I am talking about evil. It blooms. It eats. It grins."

-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God

"My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it."

-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God

"Not passion but compassion. Com—means "with." What kind of withness would that be?"

-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God

"Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days."

-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God

4. 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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5. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

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6. Ghost Wall

By: Sarah Moss

3.73

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more

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"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

Cover of After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

7. After Sappho

By: Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more

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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

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8. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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9. 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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"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

Cover of No es un río by Selva Almada

10. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

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11. Julia

By: Sandra Newman

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more

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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."

-Sandra Newman, Julia

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12. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

Cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma

13. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

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"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

Cover of Customs: Poems by Solmaz Sharif

14. 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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Cover of Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri

15. Bad Diaspora Poems

By: Momtaza Mehri

4.29

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE 2023*Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on yo… read more

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16. Bright Fear

By: Mary Jean Chan

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more

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17. Heritage Aesthetics

By: Anthony Anaxagorou

4.15

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to have 'heritage', and how do we perform or undo it? In these daring and sono… read more

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Cover of Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant

18. Self-Portrait as Othello

By: Jason Allen-Paisant

4.02

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Long… read more

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19. Sonnets for Albert

By: Anthony Joseph

3.99

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his ea… read more

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20. We Play Here

By: Dawn Watson

4.28

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year 2023; shortlisted for the John Pollard International Poetry Priz… read more

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Cover of The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan

21. The Ink Cloud Reader

By: Kit Fan

3.71

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In his disquieting third collection The Ink Cloud Reader, Kit Fan takes enormous risks linguistical… read more

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