20 Top poetry books like Host (Wisconsin Poetry Series) by Lisa Fay Coutley

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Host (Wisconsin Poetry Series)

By: Lisa Fay Coutley

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In raw, lyrical poems, Host explores parasitic relationships—between men and women, sons and mother…

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1. Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

By: Courtney Peppernell , Rosy Bullot , None

3.82

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love and raw emotions. It… read more

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"My heart is not in my body; it's lying under the castle you burned down."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"I had a dream that I was under my skin, lost and wandering around my body."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"Does art make sense to you? You are so brave an quiet; I think you would understand."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"Of all the tragedies on this earth, there is none more tragic than a person who cannot see their worth."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

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2. Worshipful Company of Fletchers

By: James Tate

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Masterfully drawing on a variety of voices and characters, James Tate joyfully offers his first boo… read more

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3. 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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4. 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

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5. Lucky Wreck

By: Ada Limon

3.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. Ada Limon's fir… read more

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6. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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7. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more

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"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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8. There There

By: Tommy Orange

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more

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"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

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9. 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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"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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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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"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. The Titanic Survivors Book Club

By: Timothy Schaffert

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books, following the Titanic librarian whose sur… read more

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"I would happily spend every minute of my future hearing about every minute of his past."

-Timothy Schaffert, The Titanic Survivors Book Club

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12. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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13. 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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14. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By: Terrance Hayes

4.27

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more

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"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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15. 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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"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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16. 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

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17. The Shared World: Poems

By: Vievee Francis

4.36

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The latest collection from award-winning poet Vievee Francis, The Shared World imagines the ideas a… read more

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"WITHOUT END There is no final poem, just as there was no original poem, and if there was a tree that held a knowledge of good and evil then we have done nothing with that knowledge, moving back and f…"

-Vievee Francis, The Shared World: Poems

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18. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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19. Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems

By: Rita Dove

4.08

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral comp… read more

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20. 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

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21. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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22. 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

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23. Return

By: Emily Lee Luan

4.26

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorr… read more

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24. The Savage Kind

By: John Copenhaver

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

2022 Lambda Literary Award WINNER in LGBTQ Mystery Two lonely teenage girls in 1940s Washington, D… read more

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25. The Wood at Midwinter

By: Susanna Clarke

3.73

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more

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26. Host (Wisconsin Poetry Series)

By: Lisa Fay Coutley

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In raw, lyrical poems, Host explores parasitic relationships—between men and women, sons and mother… read more

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27. After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage

By: Anna Monardo

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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28. Blue on a Blue Palette

By: Lynne Thompson

4.42

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Lynne Thompson’s Blue on a Blue Palette reflects on the condition of women—their joys despite their… read more

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Cover of Reveal Codes: Short Stories by Lee Ann Roripaugh

29. Reveal Codes: Short Stories

By: Lee Ann Roripaugh

4.00

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

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30. Whosoever Whole

By: Elizabeth Scanlon

4.75

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

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31. Autoblivion

By: Trey Moody

4.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A new collection from award-winning poet Trey Moody. AUTOBLIVION traces the difficulties of raising… read more

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11 must-read contemporary books like Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove

Transform Your Habits

Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

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Louise Glück

3.99

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Ada Limon

4.40

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