26 must-read poetry books like Heed the Hollow: Poems by Malcolm Tariq

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Heed the Hollow: Poems

By: Malcolm Tariq

4.46

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Heed the Hollow introduces the work of Malcolm Tariq, whose poems explore the concept of “the botto…

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1. 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

Similar categories in Solmaz Sharif's Look book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
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2. Incarnadine: Poems

By: Mary Szybist

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

The troubadours knew how to burn themselves through, how to make themselves shrines to their own lo… read more

Similar categories in Mary Szybist's Incarnadine: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry

3. When My Brother Was an Aztec

By: Natalie Díaz

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's When My Brother Was an Aztec book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

4. The Performance of Becoming Human

By: Daniel Borzutzky

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2016 National Book Award in Poetry. Daniel Borzutzky's new collection of poetry, The … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Borzutzky's The Performance of Becoming Human book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

5. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

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6. Felon: Poems

By: Reginald Dwayne Betts

4.34

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more

Similar categories in Reginald Dwayne Betts's Felon: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

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7. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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8. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

Similar categories in Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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9. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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10. 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

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"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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11. 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

Similar categories in Tess Gunty's The Rabbit Hutch book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

"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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12. 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

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
"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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13. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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14. bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Sam Sax

4.18

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Sam Sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begi… read more

Similar categories in Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series) book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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15. 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

Similar categories in Monica Youn's From From: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
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16. 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

Similar categories in Donika Kelly's The Renunciations: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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17. Trace Evidence: Poems

By: Charif Shanahan

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more

Similar categories in Charif Shanahan's Trace Evidence: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. Brute: Poems

By: Emily Skaja

4.03

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more

Similar categories in Emily Skaja's Brute: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
"unfull but full of loathing"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"I know what to do with the dark."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

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19. 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

Similar categories in Ben Lerner's The Lights: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
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20. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

Similar categories in Sam Sax's Pig: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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21. Citizen Illegal

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of C… read more

Similar categories in José Olivarez's Citizen Illegal book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence."

-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

"my enemies aren’t ugly-faced crooks, they don’t laugh while innocent die.​ they point & say how tragic then go home to pet their cute dogs."

-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

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22. Dialogues with Rising Tides

By: Kelli Russell Agodon

4.57

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Kelli Russell Agodon’s fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation… read more

Similar categories in Kelli Russell Agodon's Dialogues with Rising Tides book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
"We cannot predict our tragedies."

-Kelli Russell Agodon, Dialogues with Rising Tides

"maybe life is a cobweb, not an organizational chart."

-Kelli Russell Agodon, Dialogues with Rising Tides

"Time is a long sunrise where we wait for our haloes."

-Kelli Russell Agodon, Dialogues with Rising Tides

"If we never have enough love, we have more than most."

-Kelli Russell Agodon, Dialogues with Rising Tides

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23. Floaters: Poems

By: Martín Espada

4.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. … read more

Similar categories in Martín Espada's Floaters: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
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24. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ghazal Ali's Theophanies book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
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25. Hotel Oblivion

By: Cynthia Cruz

4.16

Format: 110 pages, ebook

A specter, haunting the edges of society: because neoliberalism insists there are no social classes… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Cruz's Hotel Oblivion book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
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26. The Blue Mimes: Poems

By: Sara Daniele Rivera

4.21

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Sara Daniele Rivera’s award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastr… read more

Similar categories in Sara Daniele Rivera's The Blue Mimes: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Be Recorder: Poems by Carmen Giménez

27. Be Recorder: Poems

By: Carmen Giménez

3.95

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Carmen Giménez Smith dares to demand renewal for a world made unrecognizable Be Recorder offers … read more

Similar categories in Carmen Giménez's Be Recorder: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022 by Henri Cole

28. Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022

By: Henri Cole

4.21

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

New and selected sonnets from Henri Cole, a poet with “a quality of daring that is rare in our poet… read more

Similar categories in Henri Cole's Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022 book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
Cover of Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems by Fady Joudah

29. Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems

By: Fady Joudah

3.99

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

An exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the bo… read more

Similar categories in Fady Joudah's Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Heed the Hollow: Poems by Malcolm Tariq

30. Heed the Hollow: Poems

By: Malcolm Tariq

4.46

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Heed the Hollow introduces the work of Malcolm Tariq, whose poems explore the concept of “the botto… read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of I Don't Want To Be Understood by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

31. I Don't Want To Be Understood

By: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

4.52

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

A transsexual woman pieces together fragmented details of a repressive religious childhood and an u… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's I Don't Want To Be Understood book and Malcolm Tariq's Heed the Hollow: Poems

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer

11 must-read lgbt books like Heed the Hollow: Poems by Malcolm Tariq

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

Transform Your Habits

bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Sam Sax

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Renunciations: Poems

Donika Kelly

4.29

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29 must-read poetry books like Dialogues with Rising Tides by Kelli Russell Agodon

Transform Your Habits

Cold Pastoral: Poems

Rebecca Dunham

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Look

Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Unaccompanied

Javier Zamora

3.89

Thief in the Interior

Phillip B. Williams

2.96

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