7 must-read queer books like Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

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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…

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Cover of Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

1. Kaddish and Other Poems

By: Allen Ginsberg

4.20

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, “in the midst of the broken consciousness of m… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"The weight of the world is love."

-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems

"What came is gone forever every time"

-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems

"No more to say, and nothing to weep for"

-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems

"Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!"

-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems

Cover of Scattered Poems by William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

2. Scattered Poems

By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac

3.68

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publicatio… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • lgbt
  • fiction
"…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth."

-William S. Burroughs, Scattered Poems

"What is the universe but a lot of waves And a craving desire is a wave…"

-William S. Burroughs, Scattered Poems

"O foot tired in climes so mysterious, Don't go down the otherside for nothing."

-William S. Burroughs, Scattered Poems

"I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?"

-William S. Burroughs, Scattered Poems

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3. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • fiction
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

Cover of Howl and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg

4. 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
  • classics
  • american
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"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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5. The Painted Word

By: Tom Wolfe

3.89

Format: 7 pages,

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6. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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7. Spring and All

By: William Carlos Williams

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Valerie Rouzeau, translator. Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination -- a hybrid of altern… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
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8. Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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9. I Remember

By: Joe Brainard

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In a book which uniquely captures 1950's America, Brainard constructs the story of his life through… read more

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

10. 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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  • new york
  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer

11. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

By: John Ashbery

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle… read more

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12. Diving Into the Wreck

By: Adrienne Rich

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the d… read more

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13. Transformations

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Anne Sexton , None

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose honesty and wit in the face of … read more

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14. A Coney Island of the Mind

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

3.84

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life"and expresses the way Lawr… read more

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15. Geography III

By: Elizabeth Bishop

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Geography III, Bishop's final book of poems, first appaered in 1976. It contains such masterpieces … read more

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16. The Complete Poems 1927-1979

By: Elizabeth Bishop

3.35

Format: None pages,

Elizabeth Bishop was vehement about her art--a perfectionist who didn't want to be seen as a "woman… read more

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17. 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

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun

18. Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

By: Ada Calhoun

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A staggering memoir from New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relation… read more

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  • new york
  • poetry
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19. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov

20. Love and Other Poems

By: Alex Dimitrov

4.10

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin… read more

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  • poetry
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Red Wheelbarrow and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams

21. The Red Wheelbarrow and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams

3.88

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Here is a perfect little gift: the most beloved poems by the most essential American poet of the la… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
"Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless."

-William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow and Other Poems

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4.20

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Scattered Poems

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3.68

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Louise Glück

4.18

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Howl and Other Poems

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David Remnick , Joseph Mitchell

4.32

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Will Gompertz

4.20

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