Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me
10 best books like Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me (Mark Leidner): The Cow, Elegy On Toy Piano, Goat In The Snow, Bad Bad, Fjords Vol.1, We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough, Return to the City of White Donkeys, The French Exit, The Grief Performance, Black Life
| Author | Ariana Reines |
| ISBN | 0977106470 |
1. Reines is brave and honest because she's willing to admit that being socialized as female is, effectively, being trained to be a corpse.
2. This book starts out politely invitational and theoretical, but something terribly scatological happened about 20 pages in where the lingua bacteria...
| Author | Dean Young |
| ISBN | 0822958724 |
In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence.
Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea...
| Author | Emily Pettit |
| ISBN | 0982617763 |
I first heard of Emily Pettit when I was looking through the Goodread Finalists in the Poetry category a couple of months ago. I tracked down a couple of her poems online to see if I'd like them (the reviews on Goodreads were very favourable), and decided to order myself a copy from the States. I'm glad I did;...
| Author | Chelsey Minnis |
| ISBN | 0977106497 |
"Juvenile mockery of poetry and the American poetry establishment, as well as excited reverence for both, are the themes of [Chelsey] Minnis's second collection."—Publishers Weekly
"Decadent! Childish! . . . indulgent and melancholy . . . moments of extreme morbidity and anger."—Arielle...
| Author | Zachary Schomburg |
| ISBN | 0984475257 |
Poetry. As one of the most exciting new voices in American poetry, Zachary Schomburg's previous books have enthralled thousands of readers with surreal landscapes populated by gorillas in people clothes, jaguars, plagues of hummingbirds, and even Abraham Lincoln. His poems have inspired art installations,...
We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough
| Author | Mike Young |
| ISBN | 0982081375 |
What if our feelings were just holograms in expensive greeting cards? Is there anything wrong with being quietly astonished, or are you obliged to turn and tell somebody? If you tell them, will they know? We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough treats language to breakfast, fiddles over language's doomed...
| Author | James Tate |
| ISBN | 0060750022 |
In his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate continues exploring his own peculiar brand of poetry, transforming our everyday world, a world where women give birth to wolves, wild babies are found in gardens, and Saint Nick visits on a hot July day....
| Author | Elisa Gabbert |
| ISBN | 0982617712 |
"What a complex and lovely book this is! Reading Elisa Gabbert's obsessively interior, technically rigorous poems is like listening in on the thoughts of a mind so fiercely observant and subtle that I find in them always some new twist, some surprising layer I hadn't noticed before. By turns moving...
| Author | Emily Kendal Frey |
| ISBN | 1880834944 |
Emily Kendal Frey performs grief and dread as a graceful dance, the kind the tree you cut down in your backyard might do on your heart. This work is light, deft, dangerous. There are perfect poems here, such as “The End”, which enacts a simple, startling twist on the hoary injunction to “Walk towards...
| Author | Dorothea Lasky |
| ISBN | 1933517433 |
You are born and it is to a black life
Full of abuse and strange things . . .
In her second collection of poetry, Dorothea Lasky cries out beyond prophecy and confession, through to an even more powerful empathy. On the verge of becoming pure substance and sensation, Black Life is emotion recollected...
my friend and i have a ritual of drinking red wine and reading poetry to each other. entire books swallowed in one sitting. no bathroom breaks, although some pausing for discussion of boys and breakdowns and breakthroughs are allowed. this wonderful collection is just like that moment you part from...
| Author | C.A. Conrad |
| ISBN | 1933517492 |
Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles.Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surreal portrait," The Book of Frank is also, in the words of candid portrayal of human cruelty and its resultant...
Loosely or not so loosely based on the iconic computer game The Oregon Trail, THE OREGON TRAIL IS THE OREGON TRAIL chronicles the journey of a family on their way out West. Along the way, they fight dysentery, a racist Mel Gibson, syphilis, and consumption while learning that letting go is sometimes easier...
This poetry collection got great reviews, and I was very eager to read it. Reading it, though, was, for me, a reminder that my grasp of poetry may sometimes be lacking. The poems were so abstract that I finished them without getting much from them, even after rereading. Not that I'm doubting their content,...
I really liked this, though I think I have a bone to pick with the ordering-- I might be totally misreading this, but the second and third sections each seemed complete on their own, developing related themes. The first section, though, felt kind of less unified, and that kind of threw me off-- I really...
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 1556593147 |
National Book Award finalist Ben Lerner turns to science once again for his guiding metaphor. “Mean free path” is the average distance a particle travels before colliding with another particle. The poems in Lerner’s third collection are full of layered collisions—repetitions, fragmentations,...
