17 best-selling nonfiction books like Woman Without Shame: Poems by Sandra Cisneros

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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…

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1. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

By: Joy Harjo

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of … read more

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2. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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
  • audiobook
"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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4. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

By: Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more

Similar categories in Melania Luisa Marte's Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems book and Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

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5. 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 Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems

  • poetry
  • the united states of america
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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6. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

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  • poetry
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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7. 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
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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8. 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 Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems

  • romance
  • poetry
  • classics
  • memoir
  • the united states of america
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

Similar categories in Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head book and Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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10. 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 Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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11. Musical Tables: Poems

By: Billy Collins

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more

Similar categories in Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems book and Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems

  • poetry
  • the united states of america
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)

By: Rio Cortez

4.02

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more

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  • poetry
  • memoir
  • the united states of america
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. And Yet: Poems

By: Kate Baer

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more

Similar categories in Kate Baer's And Yet: Poems book and Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Let your life rest on what is already good."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

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15. American Melancholy: Poems

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce C… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's American Melancholy: Poems book and Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

By: Joy Harjo

4.34

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more

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  • poetry
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."

-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

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18. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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19. Catching the Light (Why I Write)

By: Joy Harjo

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant point… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Eventually, we all make it home, and we each make an individual path by any means."

-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)

"We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us to the hells of destruction."

-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)

"The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen."

-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)

"When she broke on Earth, the light in her was not broken. We cannot break light, nor can we destroy it."

-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)

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20. Promises of Gold

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more

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  • poetry
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

16 Best adult books like Woman Without Shame: Poems by Sandra Cisneros

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

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The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

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17 Top audiobook books like Golden Ax (Penguin Poets) by Rio Cortez

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3.99

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Ada Limon

4.34

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Girls That Never Die: Poems

Safia Elhillo

4.30

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