6 Best anthologies books like The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series) by David Lehman

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The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: David Lehman

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry , “a ‘best’ antho…

If you liked the anthologies plot in The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series) by David Lehman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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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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"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

2. Delights and Shadows

By: Ted Kooser

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

American author Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements o… read more

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3. 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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4. The City in Which I Love You

By: Li-Young Lee

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Contents I. Furious Versionis II. The Interrogation This Hour And What Is Dead Arise, Go Down My Fa… read more

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5. The World Doesn't End

By: Charles Simic

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be … read more

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6. 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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"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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7. The Best American Short Stories 2022

By: Andrew Sean Greer

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer … read more

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8. 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

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"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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9. The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: David Lehman

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry , “a ‘best’ antho… read more

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  • anthologies
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10. 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

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11. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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12. 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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"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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13. 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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14. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

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15. 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

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Cover of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

16. 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

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  • poetry
"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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17. The Best American Essays 2022

By: Alexander Chee

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexand… read more

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18. The Best American Poetry 2021 (The Best American Poetry series)

By: Tracy K. Smith

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the f… read more

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  • anthologies
Cover of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas

19. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

By: Taylor Byas

4.37

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more

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20. The Best American Poetry 2019

By: Major Jackson

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry —“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world… read more

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21. This is for the mostless

By: Jason Magabo Perez

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

THIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS, writer and performer Jason Magabo Perez's debut book, is a lyrical collec… read more

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16 best-selling poetry books like The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series) by David Lehman

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

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Delights and Shadows

Ted Kooser

4.26

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Diane Seuss

4.50

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The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

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Judas Goat: Poems

Gabrielle Bates

4.21

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Franny Choi

3.93

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