14 must-read adult books like Dispatch: Poems by Cameron Awkward-Rich

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Dispatch: Poems

By: Cameron Awkward-Rich

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Set against the media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, Dispatch attends to…

If you liked the adult plot in Dispatch: Poems by Cameron Awkward-Rich , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Gender Failure

By: Rae Spoon , Ivan E. Coyote

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Being a girl was something that never really happened for me."—Rae Spoon Ivan E. Coyote and Rae… read more

Similar categories in Rae Spoon's Gender Failure book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"If being a man is something that required a person to tick off a bunch of boxes, not many people would make it through."

-Rae Spoon, Gender Failure

"The thing about failing as a girl is that I did want to succeed. I wanted to be liked and accepted like anyone, but it wasn't like learning how to play the guitar or to roller-blade. It was something…"

-Rae Spoon, Gender Failure

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2. 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

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • race
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • 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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3. What the Living Do: Poems

By: Marie Howe

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more

Similar categories in Marie Howe's What the Living Do: Poems book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt

4. Rocket Fantastic: Poems

By: None

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Like nothing before it, Rocket Fantasticreinvents the landscape and language of the body in interco… read more

Similar categories in None's Rocket Fantastic: Poems book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

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5. 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

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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6. 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 Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
"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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7. 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 Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
"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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8. 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

Similar categories in Paul Tran's All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets) book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • race
  • transgender
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • 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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9. 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 Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
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10. Dispatch: Poems

By: Cameron Awkward-Rich

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Set against the media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, Dispatch attends to… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • race
  • transgender
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • adult
  • queer
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11. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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12. Homie

By: Danez Smith

4.42

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Homie book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • race
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • queer
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"

-Danez Smith, Homie

"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"

-Danez Smith, Homie

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13. 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

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Carrying book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • adult
"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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14. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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15. 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

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry: Poems book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
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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

Similar categories in Chen Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • race
  • 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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17. 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 Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • race
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. A Fortune for Your Disaster

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: None pages, None

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's A Fortune for Your Disaster book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • race
  • adult
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19. Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose

By: Nikki Giovanni

4.20

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collect… read more

Similar categories in Nikki Giovanni's Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • race
  • adult
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20. 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 Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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21. 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

Similar categories in torrin a. greathouse's Wound from the Mouth of a Wound book and Cameron Awkward-Rich's Dispatch: Poems

  • poetry
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer

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Transform Your Habits

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

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

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What the Living Do: Poems

Marie Howe

3.00

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Diane Seuss

4.50

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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3.99

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Megan Fernandes

4.17

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Gabrielle Bates

4.21

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Franny Choi

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