19 must-read poetry books like Two Minds: Poems by Callie Siskel

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Two Minds: Poems

By: Callie Siskel

4.68

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

In a piercing and beautiful elegy for the poet’s father, this debut volume investigates the endurin…

"To echo is not to repeat, but to diminish. ['Echo']"

-Callie Siskel, Two Minds: Poems

"Friedrich's painting. a ship en route to the Arctic, is en route still in the parameters of canvas, the coffin of the frame-- the art of wreckage, how to figure ourselves in the ruins of what we can't traverse. ['Sea of Ice']"

-Callie Siskel, Two Minds: Poems

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1. Ariel: The Restored Edition

By: Sylvia Plath , Frieda Hughes

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left beh… read more

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2. Ruin

By: Cynthia Cruz

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Reader, take heed: These are no ordinary poems about childhood. In a series of secular prayers, Cyn… read more

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3. Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more

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4. The Beforelife

By: Franz Wright

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and… read more

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5. The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

By: Alice Munro

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the … read more

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6. Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more

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7. 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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8. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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9. The Immortal King Rao

By: Vauhini Vara

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmer… read more

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10. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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11. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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12. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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13. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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14. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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15. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

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"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

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16. Constellation Route

By: Matthew Olzmann

4.31

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American … read more

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17. 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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18. With My Back to the World: Poems

By: Victoria Chang

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more

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19. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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20. Doomstead Days

By: Brian Teare

4.20

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Doomstead Days is a lyrical series of experiments in embodied ecological consciousness. Drafted on … read more

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Cover of Pleasure Principle: Poems by Madeleine Cravens

21. Pleasure Principle: Poems

By: Madeleine Cravens

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth. In her stunning debu… read more

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22. I Am the Most Dangerous Thing

By: Candace Williams

4.38

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Over the course of these poems, the Black, queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and… read more

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23. Copy

By: Dolores Dorantes

4.21

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

"Without the copying process," the poet Dolores Dorantes has said, "there would be no life, no real… read more

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Cover of Bluff: Poems by Danez Smith

24. Bluff: Poems

By: Danez Smith

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more

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25. Black Bell

By: Alison C. Rollins

4.42

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Sweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with per… read more

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26. Sage: Poems

By: Marilyn Chin

3.77

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A rebellious, refined, provocative, and audacious volume from award-winning poet Marilyn Chin. In h… read more

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27. Two Minds: Poems

By: Callie Siskel

4.68

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

In a piercing and beautiful elegy for the poet’s father, this debut volume investigates the endurin… read more

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  • poetry
"To echo is not to repeat, but to diminish. ['Echo']"

-Callie Siskel, Two Minds: Poems

"Friedrich's painting. a ship en route to the Arctic, is en route still in the parameters of canvas, the coffin of the frame-- the art of wreckage, how to figure ourselves in the ruins of what we can'…"

-Callie Siskel, Two Minds: Poems

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28. Forest of Noise: Poems

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.73

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winn… read more

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Cover of A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr

29. A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry

By: Gregory Orr

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how… read more

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30. The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)

By: Louise Penny

4.44

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone ca… read more

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Cover of Architect (Miller Williams Poetry Prize) by Alison Thumel

31. Architect (Miller Williams Poetry Prize)

By: Alison Thumel

4.84

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

“When he died, my brother became the architect of the rest of my life,” writes Alison Thumel in Arc… read more

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25 Top poetry books like Sage: Poems by Marilyn Chin

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Girls That Never Die: Poems

Safia Elhillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

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Ada Limon

4.40

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