9 must-read poetry books like A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World (Iowa Whitman Series) by Christine Gerhardt

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A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World (Iowa Whitman Series)

By: Christine Gerhardt

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are widely acknowledged as two of America’s foremost nature poets,…

If you liked the poetry plot in A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World (Iowa Whitman Series) by Christine Gerhardt , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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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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  • poetry
"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)

Cover of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Cristina García

2. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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  • poetry
"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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3. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

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  • poetry
"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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4. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • poetry
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

Cover of The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

5. The Poet X

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New … read more

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  • poetry
"Pero, tú no eres fácil."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"I close my eyes and let myself find in music what I've always searched for: a way away."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

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6. Milk and Honey

By: Rupi Kaur

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is about the experience of vi… read more

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  • poetry

7. I Close My Eyes (Closed Book 1)

By: Regina Puckett

3.36

Format: 96 pages,

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8. Falling Up

By: Shel Silverstein

3.00

Format: None pages,

Millie McDeevit screamed a scream So loud it made her eyebrows steam. She screamed so loud Her jawb… read more

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9. The Princess Saves Herself in this One

By: Amanda Lovelace

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Ah, life- the thing that happens to us while we're off somewhere else blowing on dandelions & wish… read more

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10. Love Her Wild: Poems

By: Atticus Poetry

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first collection of poetry by Instagram sensation Atticus. Love Her Wildis a collection of new … read more

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11. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON'S POEMS Only eleven of Emily Di… read more

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12. Love & Misadventure

By: Lang Leav

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist. Awarded a coveted Churchill Fellowship, … read more

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13. The Sun and Her Flowers

By: Rupi Kaur

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited s… read more

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14. Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more

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15. A Light in the Attic

By: Shel Silverstein

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all… read more

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16. Where the Sidewalk Ends

By: Shel Silverstein

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Where the Sidewalk Ends turns forty! Celebrate with this anniversary edition that features an eye-c… read more

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17. Lullabies

By: Lang Leav

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A sequel to the hugely popular, best-selling Love & Misadventure, Lullabiescontinues to explore the… read more

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18. The Waste Land and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more

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19. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • poetry
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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20. Home Body

By: Rupi Kaur

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and … read more

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  • poetry
"i am loving myself out of the dark."

-Rupi Kaur, Home Body

"there are years in me that have not slept"

-Rupi Kaur, Home Body

"por qué todo parece menos hermoso cuando nos pertenece"

-Rupi Kaur, Home Body

"Aquello a lo que hemos sobrevivido, vive dentro de nosotros."

-Rupi Kaur, Home Body

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21. A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World (Iowa Whitman Series)

By: Christine Gerhardt

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are widely acknowledged as two of America’s foremost nature poets,… read more

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  • poetry

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

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4.29

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