19 Best poetry books like Crying Dress: Poems by Cassidy McFadzean

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Crying Dress: Poems

By: Cassidy McFadzean

4.58

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

The poems in Crying Dress, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection, explore the multipl…

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1. A Tale for the Time Being

By: Ruth Ozeki

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more

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"Maketa,"

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Live. For Now. For the time being."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"True freedom comes from being unknown."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

Cover of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Reginald Snell

2. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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3. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

Similar categories in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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4. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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5. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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6. Obit

By: Victoria Chang

4.27

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more

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"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

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7. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

By: Noor Naga

3.92

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more

Similar categories in Noor Naga's If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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8. Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir

By: Cody Caetano

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

*LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023* NATIONAL BESTSELLERA family tries to learn from the mistakes of … read more

Similar categories in Cody Caetano's Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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9. Goldenrod: Poems

By: Maggie Smith

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more

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"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

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10. 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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11. 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

Similar categories in Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

"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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12. Hey, Good Luck Out There

By: Georgia Toews

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Subversive, captivating and vividly attuned to both the extraordinary and the mundane, Georgia Toew… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Toews's Hey, Good Luck Out There book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

Cover of Customs: Poems by Solmaz Sharif

13. 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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14. Teenager

By: Bud Smith

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like a… read more

Similar categories in Bud Smith's Teenager book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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15. Cocktail

By: Lisa Alward

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the Globe and Mail 's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to R… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Alward's Cocktail book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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16. More Sure

By: A. Light Zachary

4.39

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A book of poems and augmentations, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in n… read more

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  • poetry
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17. Landscapes

By: Christine Lai

3.78

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught … read more

Similar categories in Christine Lai's Landscapes book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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18. The All + Flesh: Poems

By: Brandi Bird

4.77

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Brandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memo… read more

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Cover of MONUMENT by Manahil Bandukwala

19. MONUMENT

By: Manahil Bandukwala

4.39

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

MONUMENT is a conversation with Mughal Empress Mumtaz Mahal, which moves her legacy beyond the Taj … read more

Similar categories in Manahil Bandukwala's MONUMENT book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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20. Shadow Blight

By: Annick MacAskill

4.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Governor General's Award for English-Language Poetry (2022) Shortlisted for the Pat … read more

Similar categories in Annick MacAskill's Shadow Blight book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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Cover of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat

21. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

By: Shashi Bhat

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more

Similar categories in Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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22. Junebat

By: John Elizabeth Stintzi

4.38

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award John Elizabeth Stintzi’s unforgettable debut collectio… read more

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Cover of Letters in a Bruised Cosmos by Liz  Howard

23. Letters in a Bruised Cosmos

By: Liz Howard

4.09

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of… read more

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Cover of Infinity Network (Signal Editions) by Jim Johnstone

24. Infinity Network (Signal Editions)

By: Jim Johnstone

4.35

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Infinity Network completes Jim Johnstone ’s ambitious trilogy which began with Dog Ear (2014) and c… read more

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Cover of Fugue With Bedbug by Anne-Marie Turza

25. Fugue With Bedbug

By: Anne-Marie Turza

4.11

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated second collection from the author of The Quiet .  Anne-Marie Turza’s Fugue Wit… read more

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26. sulphurtongue

By: Rebecca Salazar

4.19

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and co… read more

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Cover of Crying Dress: Poems by Cassidy McFadzean

27. Crying Dress: Poems

By: Cassidy McFadzean

4.58

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

The poems in Crying Dress, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection, explore the multipl… read more

Similar categories in Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Soft Inheritance by Fawn Parker

28. Soft Inheritance

By: Fawn Parker

4.47

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her exceptional poetic debut, Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness, and the open-handed relat… read more

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29. The Animal in the Room

By: Meghan Kemp-Gee

4.23

Format: None pages, ebook

Deer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and his… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Kemp-Gee's The Animal in the Room book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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Cover of My Grief, the Sun by Sanna Wani

30. My Grief, the Sun

By: Sanna Wani

4.27

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In Sanna Wani’s vivid debut poetry collection, the body is the page, time is a friend and every voi… read more

Similar categories in Sanna Wani's My Grief, the Sun book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

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Cover of Silver Repetition by Lily   Wang

31. Silver Repetition

By: Lily Wang

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A debut coming-of-age novel that delicately illuminates the fullness of identity despite fractures … read more

Similar categories in Lily Wang's Silver Repetition book and Cassidy McFadzean's Crying Dress: Poems

11 must-read poetry books like MONUMENT by Manahil Bandukwala

Transform Your Habits

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Pony Castle

Sofia Banzhaf

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Warsan Shire

4.21

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