13 Best poetry books like Summer by Johannes Göransson

Cover of Summer by Johannes Göransson

Summer

By: Johannes Göransson

4.76

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

... inside language treacherous lilac / language syrener made for girls / like me for me the lilacs…

If you liked the poetry plot in Summer by Johannes Göransson , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Tropismes by Nathalie Sarraute

1. Tropismes

By: Nathalie Sarraute

3.66

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

« Les tropismes, a expliqué l'auteur, "ce sont des mouvements indéfinissables, qui glissent très ra… read more

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2. Margery Kempe

By: Robert Glück

3.75

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

This tale of romantic obsession chronicles two relationships that take place in disparate worlds, s… read more

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3. Men in the Off Hours

By: Anne Carson

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent… read more

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"As tree shapes from mist / Her young death / Loose / In you."

-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

" détails All the same there are some small questions one would like to put to Sokrates. Or better still Sappho. Avec tes mains brûlées ."

-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

"What is a Lamb of God? People use this phrase. I don't know. I watch my sister, fingers straying absently about her mustache, no help there."

-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

"In myth, women's boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is …"

-Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

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4. Memory

By: Bernadette Mayer

2.50

Format: None pages,

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5. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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6. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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7. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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8. Libro del frío

By: Antonio Gamoneda

4.60

Format: None pages,

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9. Dictee

By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more

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10. Malina

By: Philip Boehm , Ingeborg Bachmann , Mark Anderson , Michael Bullock

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Tells the story of lives painfully intertwined: the unnamed narrator, haunted by nightmarish memori… read more

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11. The Thomas Salto

By: Timmy Straw

4.56

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

The ambitious and astonishing debut poetry collection by Timmy Straw, THE THOMAS SALTO forms its po… read more

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12. Outgoing Vessel

By: Ursula Andkjær Olsen

4.46

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen. this is a shape I cannot remain in. W… read more

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13. Mirror Nation

By: Don Mee Choi

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly… read more

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14. The Crystal Text

By: Clark Coolidge

4.82

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Clark Coolidge’s book-length meditation on a crystal—long considered a masterpiece of American avan… read more

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15. Third-Millennium Heart

By: Ursula Andkjær Olsen

4.37

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

2018 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD WINNER (US) 2018 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD FINALIST (US) “Fr… read more

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" You want to enter my paradise/spaceship where you think you can survive for several thousand years. I want more."

-Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Third-Millennium Heart

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16. Cicada

By: Phoebe Giannisi

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The celebrated Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi explores connections between language, life, and the natu… read more

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17. Summer

By: Johannes Göransson

4.76

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

... inside language treacherous lilac / language syrener made for girls / like me for me the lilacs… read more

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18. Lonespeech

By: Ann Jäderlund

4.20

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

An elemental, uncanny collection of poems translated from one of Sweden’s most influential and belo… read more

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Cover of Mit smykkeskrin by Ursula Andkjær Olsen

19. Mit smykkeskrin

By: Ursula Andkjær Olsen

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mit smykkeskrin er digte om biologiske, økonomiske og følelsesmæssige kredsløb, om at give liv vide… read more

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20. Pitch & Glint

By: Lutz Seiler

3.81

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry… read more

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21. Runes and Chords

By: Alice Notley

4.38

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Ephemeral and anarchic, Runes and Chords is the first collection of artwork by famed poet, critic a… read more

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15 must-read poetry books like Cicada by Phoebe Giannisi

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Book of Delights: Essays

Ross Gay

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)

Kwame Alexander

4.32

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