6 best-selling poetry books like Rough Music by Deborah Digges

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Rough Music

By: Deborah Digges

4.15

Format: 54 pages, Hardcover

"Deborah Digges's rough new music is bold and fractious, unpredictable and passionate. spilling ove…

If you liked the poetry plot in Rough Music by Deborah Digges , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. The Earth in the Attic

By: Louise Glück , Fady Joudah

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Fady Joudah's The Earth in the Atticis the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competit… read more

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2. Ordinary Beast

By: Nicole Sealey

4.36

Format: 39 pages, ebook

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF … read more

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3. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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4. Matrix

By: Lauren Groff

3.68

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furie… read more

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"All souls are limited in the circles of their own understanding."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Foolish creature, old Marie would say to that child. Open your hands and let your life go. It has never been yours to do with what you will."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

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5. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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6. The Rabbit Hutch

By: Tess Gunty

3.52

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more

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"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

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7. The Office of Historical Corrections

By: Danielle Evans

4.18

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and … read more

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"Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what they need in the first place," she said. "So, pretty much anybody."

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love their history right up until it's true."

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"I was certain it would indeed be charming, but the Upper Midwest made me moody; people made me feel like I was being asked to speak a language I'd never learned and in which I was constantly misunder…"

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having…"

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

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8. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

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"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

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9. The Book of Goose

By: Yiyun Li

3.71

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more

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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though is has ti meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

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10. 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

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11. 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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  • poetry
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12. Have You Been Long Enough At Table

By: Leslie Sainz

4.27

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Marvelous.”―Terrance Hayes Taking its title from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea , Leslie Sain… read more

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  • poetry
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13. The Court of No Record: Poems

By: Jenny Molberg

4.65

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Jenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record , serves as both evidence and te… read more

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  • poetry
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14. 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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15. Rough Music

By: Deborah Digges

4.15

Format: 54 pages, Hardcover

"Deborah Digges's rough new music is bold and fractious, unpredictable and passionate. spilling ove… read more

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