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A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far

10 best books like A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (Adrienne Rich): Loose Woman, Ember Falls, Ember Rising, Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace, The Black Unicorn: Poems, One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale, I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems, The Moon Is Always Female: Poems, Live or Die, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

Loose Woman
AuthorSandra Cisneros
ISBN0679755276
Of the poems in this collection, the ones I like the most come from the central section entitled "The Heart Rounds up the Usual Suspects": here is the poem of the same title:

I sleep with the cat
when no one will have me.
When I can't give it away
for love or money-

I telephone...
Ember Falls
AuthorS.D. Smith
ISBN0996436804
The stage is set. It's war. Morbin Blackhawk, slaver and tyrant, threatens to destroy the rabbit resistance forever. Heather and Picket are two young rabbits improbably thrust into pivotal roles.
The fragile alliance forged around the young heir seems certain to fail. Can Heather and Picket...
Ember Rising
AuthorS.D. Smith
ISBN0999655329
*zips lips against spoilers* *realizes I won’t be able to speak at all* *unzips lips*

I’ll just have to try to keep the spoilers out because OH MY WORD I went into this blind and was repeatedly gobsmacked by the twists and turns and reveals. O.o. :D

The first 60% of the book was sooo...
Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace
AuthorJen Cullerton Johnson
A while back I read a couple picture books about Wangari Maathai, including Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai and Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa, and I loved them both, and I’m interested in reading her autobiography and her book about the Green Belt Movement,...
The Black Unicorn: Poems
AuthorAudre Lorde
ISBN0393312372
Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents have the timelessness of a poetry which extends...
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale
AuthorDemi


I have read many books by world-renowned children’s book author, Demi, but I have not gotten around to reviewing any of Demi’s books yet. “One Grain of Rice” is the first book by Demi that I am reviewing and it is a folktale from India that is about a young woman named Rani who tries to trick...
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems
AuthorEileen Myles
ISBN0062389106
A collection of thrilling new and beloved past work from one of America's most celebrated poets, Eileen Myles, a cult icon and modern favorite

Eileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral, in which Myles not only lets her readers...
The Moon Is Always Female: Poems
AuthorMarge Piercy
ISBN0394738594
“The poems in this volume fall into two parts. Hand Games, poems of the first section, is the daily bread of my past two years or so. They are the artifacts of loving in a personal way, of struggles in a wide and a narrower frame, of planting and harvesting in the earth and on paper, of building new friendships...
Live or Die
AuthorAnne Sexton
ISBN0395081807
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A gripping poetry collection mapping the thorny journey from madness to hope.

Anne Sexton won immediate recognition as a strong voice in American poetry with the 1960 publication of her first book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, followed by critical acclaim of her...
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
AuthorFrank Bidart
ISBN0374125953
The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices

Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers,...
Leonardo Da Vinci
AuthorDiane Stanley
ISBN0688104371
Leonardo Da Vinci

Non-Fiction Biography
Grades 4-7

Award-winning author and illustrator, Diane Stanley, chronicles the life of the artist Leonardo Da Vinci from his birth to his death. This biography contains a wealth of information and is told in a story that blends Renaissance...
Infinity and Me
AuthorKate Hosford
ISBN0761367268
When I looked up, I shivered. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. I started to feel very, very small. How could I even think about something as big as infinity?

Uma can't help feeling small when she peers up at the night sky. She begins to wonder...
Prelude to Bruise
AuthorSaeed Jones
ISBN1566893747
bookmarking this review here. http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online...

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i need to say, first off, that poetry in english is really hard for me. i can do poetry in italian, but poetry in english, tough, man.

but a friend of mine agreed to read this with me, and the experience...
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