19 Top poetry books like To Make Room for the Sea by Adam Clay

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To Make Room for the Sea

By: Adam Clay

3.83

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

"That's the magic of this book--the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page." -…

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Cover of Incarnadine: Poems by Mary Szybist

1. 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

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  • poetry
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2. What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?

By: Arlene Kim

3.58

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
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3. Gilead (Gilead, #1)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.85

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more

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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

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4. Autoboyography

By: Christina Lauren

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Three years ago, Tanner Scott's family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bi… read more

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5. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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6. Revolutionary Petunias

By: Alice Walker

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of… read more

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7. Sulwe

By: Lupita Nyong'o

4.66

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller! From Academy Award–winning actress Lupita Nyong’o comes a powerful,… read more

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"Mama asked, "What is your name?" "Sulwe," she muttered. "And what doe sit mean?" "Star," Sulwe whispered. "Brightness is not in your skin, my love. Brightness is just who you are. As for beauty," Mam…"

-Lupita Nyong'o, Sulwe

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8. For Every One

By: Jason Reynolds

4.30

Format: 102 pages, Hardcover

Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial… read more

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"Dreams don't have timelines, deadlines, and aren't always in straight lines."

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

"When it comes to my dream, the way I like to describe it is that it's a rabid beast that found me when I was young"

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

"The truth is, finding that beast may or may not happen. But the treasures I've discovered under the heavy stones and behind the massive trees and deep in the dark caves have created the hunter and th…"

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

"One thing I am now certain of is that this road less traveled has in fact been traveled by far more suckers than you think. All of us out here, slumped over wearing weird fake broken smiles, trying t…"

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

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9. Flights

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more

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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

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10. Wash Day Diaries

By: Jamila Rowser

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to t… read more

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11. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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  • poetry
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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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

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  • 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. The Chosen and the Beautiful

By: Nghi Vo

3.55

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s Ame… read more

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"It was after midnight with that tired charm that all parties on the downturn acquire."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He wanted something agreeable, something sweeter around the edges, but I was never very good at sweet."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He called me careless because he didn't have the words to sort out how jealous he was of my money and my freedom and how very few people in the world could act as I did."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"You weren't meant to look at people the way that Lieutenant Gatsby looked at Daisy Fay. You couldn't peel your skin back and show them how your heart had gone up in flames, how nothing that had come …"

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

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14. The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

By: Olivie Blake

2.90

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. An explosive return to the library… read more

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"Is this actually possible?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"It means the archives are “alive"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"I will spend my life orbiting your,"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"I'm constantly at risk for peril. Ask anyone!"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

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15. Our Strangers: Stories

By: Lydia Davis

3.92

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more

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  • poetry
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16. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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17. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

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18. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

By: Megan Fox

3.76

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over… read more

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  • poetry
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19. The Strength In Our Scars

By: Bianca Sparacino

4.06

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

“The Strength In Our Scars” is Bianca Sparacino’s reminder to you: No matter what you’re going thro… read more

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  • poetry
"Love will not save you. But it will hold your hand while you save yourself."

-Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

"How do you find the right one in a world of 7 billion people? First—you become the right one. The rest will follow."

-Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

"From time to time, trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point you fought for something. You believed."

-Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

"What a shame it truly is— that some of us have lived our entire lives under the impression that the love we have been searching for was to be found, first and foremost, in anyone but ourselves."

-Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

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20. I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

By: Halsey

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Grammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling … read more

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  • poetry
"I'm whatever I've seen, on a movie screen"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"cause I won't love a man Unless he is angry Because of my father"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too young; too early."

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

"I can't remember what it's like to face a mirror And not hate the person staring back at me"

-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

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21. Artemis Made Me Do It

By: Trista Mateer

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another magical approach to self-ca… read more

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  • poetry
"Forgive me if I unlearn pretty and learn vicious in its place."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"I believe all men think of me as a piece. Correction: Not all men."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"Look at you, taking care of everyone but yourself, letting love make you hollow instead of full."

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

"The wolf caught me in its jaws but when I cried out, other only said: I have seen the wolf many times and he has not bitten me"

-Trista Mateer, Artemis Made Me Do It

Cover of Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

22. Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

By: Nikita Gill

4.02

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poeticall… read more

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  • poetry
"That idea...it was you. You are the universe’s fairytale come true."

-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

"She wears strength and darkness equally well, The girl has always been half goddess, half hell"

-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

"They pull at a thread of pain left by someone in your mind, and sew an entire ghost out of you."

-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

"Out there may be monsters, my dear. But in you still lives the dragon you should always believe in."

-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

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23. Swallowtail (Button Poetry)

By: Brenna Twohy

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Swallowtail: A deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors… read more

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  • poetry
"Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing."

-Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail (Button Poetry)

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24. Your Heart is the Sea

By: Nikita Gill

4.11

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Let poetry help you examine the depths of your wounds. Let it remind you that no matter how deep it… read more

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  • poetry
"We house both masterpiece and artist in this skin. So when you are disintegrated, trying to piece together what is left inside you, focus on this: You are not broken. You are simply dissembled for a …"

-Nikita Gill, Your Heart is the Sea

"When you go through the moments where you are questioning yourself whether or not it was abuse, remember the way it made you feel. Push away the nostalgia that is trying to minimize it, trying to tri…"

-Nikita Gill, Your Heart is the Sea

Cover of The Things We Don't Talk About by Anthony G. Martinez

25. The Things We Don't Talk About

By: Anthony G. Martinez

3.23

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

26 poems: Tunnel, Dark Corners, Parallel, Press Play, Mundane, Walls, Sunbathing, Broken, Space Tra… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Tell Me Another Story: Poems of You and Me by Emmy Marucci

26. Tell Me Another Story: Poems of You and Me

By: Emmy Marucci

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From writer, photographer, and fashion editor Emmy Marucci comes an arrestingly candid volume of po… read more

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  • poetry
"grief moves like the moon"

-Emmy Marucci, Tell Me Another Story: Poems of You and Me

"youth it leaves you quick and it never comes back"

-Emmy Marucci, Tell Me Another Story: Poems of You and Me

"we look at each other and cry it’s like a song we’re singing"

-Emmy Marucci, Tell Me Another Story: Poems of You and Me

"there’s only one thing worse than death itself and that is the fear of it"

-Emmy Marucci, Tell Me Another Story: Poems of You and Me

Cover of Moonstruck, Vol. 3: Troubled Waters (Moonstruck, #3) by Grace Ellis

27. Moonstruck, Vol. 3: Troubled Waters (Moonstruck, #3)

By: Grace Ellis

3.55

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Spring comes to the supernatural town of Blitheton, which can only mean one thing: It's time for th… read more

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28. letters to the person i was

By: Sana Abuleil

3.61

Format: 143 pages, ebook

Sana Abuleil presents a poetry collection of forgiveness, reflection, and self-love. Letters to My … read more

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  • poetry
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29. Proverbs of Limbo: Poems

By: Robert Pinsky

3.69

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

A new book of poems by the three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer "rarely equalled" (Loui… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of To Make Room for the Sea by Adam Clay

30. To Make Room for the Sea

By: Adam Clay

3.83

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

"That's the magic of this book--the way Adam Clay, line after line, enacts the mind on the page." -… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Something I wrote the other day

By: Jason Michael Dunn

2.44

Format: 50 pages, None

Experimental essays, slice of life short stories, contemplative poetry and cathartic essays. read more

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  • poetry

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