9 Top poetry books like Plastic by Stacey Teague

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Plastic

By: Stacey Teague

4.86

Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition

you see a photo of yourself / pressed behind plastic / three years old in a white skivvyIn Plastic,…

If you liked the poetry plot in Plastic by Stacey Teague , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more

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"I'm having a crisis of function."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"None of us will make it to the end."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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2. Self-Help

By: Lorrie Moore

4.13

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

From the national bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs —and a master of contemporary American… read more

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"Nightmares have seasons like hurricanes."

-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

"We are dealing, she continues, with a mind, as Williams put it, like a bed all made up."

-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

"You will forget whoever it was that said never trust a thought doesn't come while walking. But clutch at it. Apartments can shrink inward like drying ponds."

-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

"I'm bonkers, aren't I? I ask with my mouth full. You're unhappy, says Mr. Fernandez. It can be the same thing. You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy."

-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

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3. Dream Work

By: Mary Oliver

4.35

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more

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  • poetry
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

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4. Tangi

By: Witi Ihimaera

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tangi is a poetic drama in prose, about a young man and his father. It is an account of death, but … read more

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  • poetry
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5. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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6. 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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7. New American Best Friend

By: Olivia Gatwood

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

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8. The Rehearsal

By: Eleanor Catton

3.91

Format: None pages,

All the world's a stage - and nowhere is it that more true than at an all-girls high school, partic… read more

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9. 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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  • poetry
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10. In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more

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"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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11. The Death of Vivek Oji

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.13

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more

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"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

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12. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

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  • poetry
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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13. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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14. Either/Or

By: Elif Batuman

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more

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"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

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15. Amma

By: Saraid de Silva

4.45

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more

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16. Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter

By: Noelle McCarthy

4.13

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

"I’ll be grand, girl, I’ve great faith." – Mammy, just before she died Funny, charismatic and ge… read more

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17. Audition

By: Pip Adam

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more

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18. Hine Toa

By: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku

4.45

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The immersive, inspiring and long-awaited memoir by legendary activist and scholar Ngahuia Te Aweko… read more

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19. People Person

By: Joanna Cho

4.38

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on… read more

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  • poetry
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20. Big Fat Brown Bitch

By: Tusiata Avia

4.71

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laug… read more

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"Hear ye, "It is the minorities who need the protection of free speech" except when it is a poem twisted into a headline in an election year"

-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch

"How do we trace the whakapapa of our symbols <> when our grandmother is dead <> and our father is dead <> and our great uncles and aunties are dead <>"

-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch

"Her look is all passion No agony There is enough of that on the ground, with the mourners- Mary, all the Marys The slutty one The motherly one The contrary one The queen The queer The virgin All the …"

-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch

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21. Dress Rehearsals

By: Madison Godfrey

3.98

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binar… read more

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  • poetry
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22. Kitten

By: Olive Nuttall

4.24

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Rosemary, a trans girl, has many conflicting qualities. She’s super smart but flawed, polyamorous b… read more

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23. Dream Girl

By: Joy Holley

4.44

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Alice wants a heart-shaped bed. Mary, Genevieve and Angelica want to know the future. June says she… read more

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24. Ash

By: Louise Wallace

4.35

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more

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25. The Mires

By: Tina Makereti

4.41

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around … read more

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26. 2000ft Above Worry Level

By: Eamonn Marra

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Everything is sad and funny and nothing is anything else 2000ft Above Worry Level begins on the … read more

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27. All That We Know

By: Shilo Kino

4.61

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

'I don't want to be a pioneer. I want to be the last; to enjoy the fruits of everyone else's hard l… read more

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28. Plastic

By: Stacey Teague

4.86

Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition

you see a photo of yourself / pressed behind plastic / three years old in a white skivvyIn Plastic,… read more

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  • poetry
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29. Bad Archive

By: Flora Feltham

4.67

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Bold, beautiful and constantly surprising essays about life, loss, joy and the fabric of memory. … read more

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30. Whaea Blue

By: Talia Marshall

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Polly and Wiki and all the other kuia ride on the roof of Kerry’s Toyota Corona with its navy blist… read more

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31. Killer Rack

By: Sylvan Spring

4.64

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In their generous and often euphoric first book, Sylvan Spring is constantly and irresistibly in mo… read more

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  • poetry

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