12 must-read poetry books like Fugue for Other Hands by Joseph Fasano

Cover of Fugue for Other Hands by Joseph Fasano

Fugue for Other Hands

By: Joseph Fasano

4.73

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The debut poetry collection by Joseph Fasano, Fugue for Other Hands won the 2011 Cider Press Review…

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Cover of Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson, Stesichorus

1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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  • poetry
"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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2. 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
"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 Averno by Louise Glück

3. Averno

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more

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  • poetry
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."

-Louise Glück, Averno

"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

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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

"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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5. 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
Cover of Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson

6. Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Glass, Irony and God by Guy Davenport, Anne Carson

7. Glass, Irony and God

By: Guy Davenport , Anne Carson

4.32

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with s… read more

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  • poetry
"...I am talking about evil. It blooms. It eats. It grins."

-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God

"My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it."

-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God

"Not passion but compassion. Com—means "with." What kind of withness would that be?"

-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God

"Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days."

-Guy Davenport, Glass, Irony and God

8. What Work Is

By: Philip Levine

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Winner of the National Book Award in 1991 "This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the … read more

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  • poetry
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9. A Village Life

By: Louise Glück

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village,… read more

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  • poetry
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10. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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11. All of Us: The Collected Poems

By: Raymond Carver

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America's finest writer… read more

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12. You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry tha… read more

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13. 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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14. War of the Foxes

By: Richard Siken

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more

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15. 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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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

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17. 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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18. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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19. Caffeine

By: Steven Bruce

4.57

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Caffeine is an intimate and evocative collection of poetry encompassed by the thoughts that keep us… read more

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  • poetry
"We drift apart from each other until we are so alone the ache becomes routine."

-Steven Bruce, Caffeine

"And night comes with a gentle storm to permeate the conduits of my blood. And shy rain whispers your name."

-Steven Bruce, Caffeine

"All of us wild and fighting for our lives. In the fragrant wilderness of this blue night, my heart sings along with the other nocturnal beasts."

-Steven Bruce, Caffeine

Cover of White Knuckle by Steven  Bruce

20. White Knuckle

By: Steven Bruce

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

White Knuckle is Steven Bruce's poignant debut poetry collection, providing a stark autobiographica… read more

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  • poetry
"Our scars are a testament that we arrived at the battle."

-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle

"Strength comes, not in the grip, but the opening of the hand."

-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle

"We are not the ashes of our past, but embers burning towards a future fire."

-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle

Cover of Fugue for Other Hands by Joseph Fasano

21. Fugue for Other Hands

By: Joseph Fasano

4.73

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The debut poetry collection by Joseph Fasano, Fugue for Other Hands won the 2011 Cider Press Review… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Averno

Louise Glück

4.18

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Sylvia Plath

4.19

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