18 Top queer books like bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Sam Sax

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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…

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1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more

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  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

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2. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

Similar categories in Solmaz Sharif's Look book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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3. Whereas

By: Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction

4. 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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5. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Yvette Siegert

3.28

Format: 404 pages, ebook

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasu… read more

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6. Ordinary Beast

By: Nicole Sealey

4.36

Format: 39 pages, ebook

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF … read more

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7. The Spectral Wilderness

By: Oliver Baez Bendorf

3.96

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

It's a joy. . .to come nearer to a realm of experience little explored in American poetry, the live… read more

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8. 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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9. 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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10. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

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11. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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12. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Pilgrim Bell: Poems book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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13. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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14. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

By: Paul Tran

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more

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  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

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15. 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 Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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16. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

Similar categories in Saeed Jones's Alive At The End Of The World book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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17. 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

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"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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18. Trace Evidence: Poems

By: Charif Shanahan

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more

Similar categories in Charif Shanahan's Trace Evidence: Poems book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
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19. Soft Science

By: Franny Choi

3.93

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's Soft Science book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"having been hurt before"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"fiended; fell for another"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"it's too late to stop smiling."

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"

-Franny Choi, Soft Science

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20. 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 Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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21. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

Similar categories in Chen Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

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22. Space Struck

By: Paige Lewis

4.07

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more

Similar categories in Paige Lewis's Space Struck book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

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23. Rupture Tense

By: Jenny Xie

3.91

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorke… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Xie's Rupture Tense book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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24. DMZ Colony

By: Don Mee Choi

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of… read more

Similar categories in Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving. So it's most likely that the decision, seemingly all mine, was already made years …"

-Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony

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25. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

By: Jake Skeets

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men “only touch when they fuck in a backseat.” Its landscap… read more

Similar categories in Jake Skeets's Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • queer
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26. I Will Destroy You: Poems

By: Nick Flynn

3.87

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The newest collection from Nick Flynn, whose “songs of experience hum with immediacy” (The New York… read more

Similar categories in Nick Flynn's I Will Destroy You: Poems book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
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27. There Are Trans People Here

By: H. Melt

4.19

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the… read more

Similar categories in H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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28. Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco

By: K. Iver

4.59

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr P… read more

Similar categories in K. Iver's Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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29. Cinema Love

By: Jiaming Tang

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more

Similar categories in Jiaming Tang's Cinema Love book and Sam Sax's bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

  • literary fiction
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
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30. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

By: torrin a. greathouse

4.42

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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31. Nothing Is Okay

By: Rachel Wiley

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Nothing is Okay is the second full-length collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously dec… read more

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  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer

16 Best adult books like bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Sam Sax

Transform Your Habits

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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21 must-read fiction books like Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang

Transform Your Habits

Henry Henry

Allen Bratton

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

Transform Your Habits

We Were the Universe

Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

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