15 best-selling poetry books like Mortal Trash: Poems by Kim Addonizio

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Mortal Trash: Poems

By: Kim Addonizio

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trashtransports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desi…

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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Joan Didion

4.19

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more

Similar categories in Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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2. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

  • poetry
"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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3. Brawl & Jag: Poems

By: April Bernard

3.86

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

“It is as if the poet set fire to her earlier work and wrote these poems in the light of those flam… read more

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  • poetry
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4. Vita Nova

By: Louise Glück

3.95

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In Vita Nova , Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glück man… read more

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  • poetry
  • poetry plays
"be a brave dog - this is all material"

-Louise Glück, Vita Nova

"His gaze touched me before his hands touched me."

-Louise Glück, Vita Nova

"It was never focus that was missing, it was meaning."

-Louise Glück, Vita Nova

"I had two desires: desire to be safe and desire to feel."

-Louise Glück, Vita Nova

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5. 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

Similar categories in Sylvia Plath's Ariel book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

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

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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6. Brokeback Mountain

By: Annie Proulx

4.00

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more

Similar categories in Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

"I wish I knew how to quit you."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

Cover of Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

7. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead: Poems book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

  • poetry
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8. Are You My Mother?

By: Alison Bechdel

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more

Similar categories in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother? book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

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9. This Is How You Lose Her

By: Junot Díaz

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital la… read more

Similar categories in Junot Díaz's This Is How You Lose Her book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

Cover of Mortal Trash: Poems by Kim Addonizio

10. Mortal Trash: Poems

By: Kim Addonizio

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trashtransports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desi… read more

Similar categories in Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

  • poetry
  • poetry plays
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11. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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  • poetry

12. Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

By: Billy Collins

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems a… read more

Similar categories in Billy Collins's Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

13. When My Brother Was an Aztec

By: Natalie Díaz

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's When My Brother Was an Aztec book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

14. One Secret Thing

By: Sharon Olds

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful wit… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Olds's One Secret Thing book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

15. Madness

By: Sam Sax

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Ser… read more

Similar categories in Sam Sax's Madness book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

16. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Calling a Wolf a Wolf book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

17. Stag's Leap: Poems

By: Sharon Olds

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more

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18. Lessons on Expulsion

By: Erika L. Sánchez

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An award-winning and hard-hitting new voice in contemporary American poetry The first time I ever c… read more

Similar categories in Erika L. Sánchez's Lessons on Expulsion book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

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19. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

  • poetry
  • poetry plays
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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20. 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

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

  • 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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21. bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Sam Sax

4.18

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Sam Sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begi… read more

Similar categories in Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series) book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Woman Without Shame: Poems by Sandra Cisneros

22. Woman Without Shame: Poems

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

  • poetry
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23. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Carrying book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

  • poetry
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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24. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

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25. Ghost Music

By: An Yu

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative note… read more

Similar categories in An Yu's Ghost Music book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

"What brought me a touch of comfort was knowing not that my husband was there, asleep on the other side of the wall, but that there was a stranger, across the street, still awake and listening to the …"

-An Yu, Ghost Music

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26. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

  • poetry
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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27. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's Eggshell Skull book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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28. Brute: Poems

By: Emily Skaja

4.03

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emi… read more

Similar categories in Emily Skaja's Brute: Poems book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

  • poetry
"unfull but full of loathing"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"I know what to do with the dark."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Hello you are a vessel of vessels."

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

"Blue river nameless, sky blank, pointless"

-Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

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29. The Water Cure

By: Sophie Mackintosh

3.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Mackintosh's The Water Cure book and Kim Addonizio's Mortal Trash: Poems

"New dangers, though, coming to the surface like the bubbles of soap."

-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

"Sometimes she was my enemy and sometimes she was just my mother, an enemy in a different way."

-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

"Love as a protest within my body. Or perhaps it’s just that I am unused to touch, am out of practice. Bodies do not lie. This all acts as proof that he has touched me here, here, here."

-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

"It used to bother me that we would leave little trace, but now I have never been more glad about anything. I will wake up in the empty mornings with the absence of you, and I will think, Glad, glad, …"

-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

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30. The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories

By: Sam Pink

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"Pink is a keen observer of the culture of minimum-wage jobs and low-rent studio apartments that is… read more

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Cover of Instructions for Traveling West: Poems by Joy Sullivan

31. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

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  • poetry

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