11 Best audiobook books like Musical Tables: Poems by Billy Collins

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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…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Musical Tables: Poems by Billy Collins , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Sharks in the Rivers

By: Ada Limon

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's Sharks in the Rivers book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction

2. Lucky Wreck

By: Ada Limon

3.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. Ada Limon's fir… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's Lucky Wreck book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

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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

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • 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. 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 Billy Collins's Musical Tables: 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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5. 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 Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • the united states of america
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Billy Collins's Musical Tables: 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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7. 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 Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Rio Cortez's Golden Ax (Penguin Poets) book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • the united states of america
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9. 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

Similar categories in Clint Smith's Above Ground book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • 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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11. Goldenrod: Poems

By: Maggie Smith

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

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12. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

By: Pádraig Ó Tuama

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more

Similar categories in Pádraig Ó Tuama's Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. 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

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"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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14. 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 Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of Turn Up the Ocean: Poems by Tony Hoagland

15. Turn Up the Ocean: Poems

By: Tony Hoagland

4.31

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The final book of poems by Tony Hoagland, “one of the most distinctive voices of our time” (Carl De… read more

Similar categories in Tony Hoagland's Turn Up the Ocean: Poems book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of A Year of Last Things: Poems by Michael Ondaatje

16. A Year of Last Things: Poems

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.61

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more

Similar categories in Michael Ondaatje's A Year of Last Things: Poems book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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17. Normal Distance

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A collection of funny and thought-provoking poems inspired by surprising facts that will appeal to … read more

Similar categories in Elisa Gabbert's Normal Distance book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
Cover of Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air by Ted Kooser

18. Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air

By: Ted Kooser

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Poems dipped out of the air” describes the manner in which Ted Kooser composed the poems in Cotton… read more

Similar categories in Ted Kooser's Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of Dunce by Mary Ruefle

19. Dunce

By: Mary Ruefle

3.94

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Through her many projects across numerous genres, Mary Ruefle has proven herself a singular artist,… read more

Similar categories in Mary Ruefle's Dunce book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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20. The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal

By: James Crews

4.38

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness  pr… read more

Similar categories in James Crews's The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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21. 100 Poems That Matter

By: The Academy of American Poets

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A moving, thought-provoking, and emotional anthology of classical and contemporary poems that invit… read more

Similar categories in The Academy of American Poets's 100 Poems That Matter book and Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems

  • poetry

13 best-selling adult books like Musical Tables: Poems by Billy Collins

Transform Your Habits

Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Woman Without Shame: Poems

Sandra Cisneros

4.11

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

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Girls That Never Die: Poems

Safia Elhillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

Paul Tran

3.87

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