Blood Sugar

10 best books like Blood Sugar (Nicole Blackman): Borderlands 3, Silk, Poetry as Survival, Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Love Cake, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl: Poems, Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets, Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality, The Marijuana Chronicles

Borderlands 3

Author	Thomas F. Monteleone
ISBN	1565041097

I liked most of the stories in this book. It's an old book, from 1994, that I've had for a long time that I finally got around to reading. I skipped the introductions to all the stories because I didn't find them interesting, but the stories themselves were mostly good. The first one was about a nun who was...

Silk

Author	Caitlín R. Kiernan
ISBN	0451459008

They are the young misfits...society's castoffs...urban strays looking for a thrill. Something cheap, anything to get them through the night. Sleepwalking on caffeine, nicotine, and drugs, they wait out the dawn in death-rock clubs and shadowy back alleys...

Then into their midst comes...

Poetry as Survival

Author	Gregory Orr
ISBN	0820324280

Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering.Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of...

Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction

Author	Sabrina Chapadjiev
ISBN	1583228276

A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This (a finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards) is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and...

Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Author	Miguel Algarín
ISBN	0805032576

I'm currently reading some of the authors in the "Founding Poems" section of this book, for the Poets of Color class I'm teaching. As well, I've just recently read and will reread Miguel Algarín's introduction. I'm so interested especially in the section of this intro re: the Open Room, and the open...

Love Cake

Author	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
ISBN	1894770692

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. In these poems, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Remembering and testifying about the damage caused by the racial profiling of South Asian and Arab people post...

I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl: Poems

Author	Karyna McGlynn
ISBN	1932511768

I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl is film noir set in verse, each poem a miniature crime scene with its own set of clues—frosted eye-shadow, a pistol under a horse’s eye, dripping window units, an aneurysm opening its lethal trap. In otherworldly vignettes, 1994 pairs the unreliable narration...

Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets

Author	Jordan Trachtenberg
ISBN	0312151918

What are are holding right now in your hands is a book. Not a telephone reciever, which is how most of the poems in this collection were first transmitted...There are plenty of examples of this spreading of one art form or another through popular mediums. There are all those wonderful Russian Constructivist...

Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality

Author	Marilyn Sewell
ISBN	0807068497

Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation,...

The Marijuana Chronicles

Author	Jonathan Santlofer
ISBN	1617751634

Featuring brand-new stories, poems, prose, and graphics by: Lee Child, Joyce Carol Oates, Linda Yablonsky, Jonathan Santlofer, Abraham Rodriguez, Dean Haspiel, Maggie Estep, Bob Holman, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Amanda Stern, Jan Heller Levi, Josh Gilbert, Edward M. Gómez, Raymond Mungo, Rachel...

Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields

Author	Ashley Capps
ISBN	1931968373

In her first book, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, Ashley Capps sounds like the voice of a fresh generation of poets, where the familiar turns suddenly elliptical, straight talk goes engagingly crooked, and the lyric negotiates with the matter-of-fact. Desperate for something solid to believe...

Home

Author	Matthew Costello
ISBN	1250012732

Besieged and attacked, a mother and her children must escape a post-apocalyptic nightmare world of cannibals and betrayal

Jack Murphy thought he'd found the perfect escape for his family from a world gone horribly mad. He thought wrong. Matthew Costello's Home begins mere minutes after...

The Speed Chronicles

Author

Joseph Mattson

"Akashic launches a new series of crime anthologies, each focused on a different controlled substance, with this addictive volume."
-- Publishers Weekly

"All told, The Speed Chronicles deserves great praise for the audacity of the topic, the depth of the discussion, the diversity...

Strange Angels

Author

Kathe Koja

There is a reason why Kathe Koja is one of my favorite indie horror authors.

There is almost a manic, frantic, and it's uncomfortable to read quality to her writing. Every time I re-read one of her books there is a new element/angle of the book that I did not notice or absorb during the reading before.



Her...

The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams

Author	James O'Barr
ISBN	0345417127

I was looking for the comic and I found this.

The names Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins caught my interest. They had both submitted poems, and the poems are the more better submissions. The stories. though, (and a little bit the art) come across as fan fiction, which is probably inevitable, but gets...

Swan Wreck

Author	Casey Renee Kiser
ISBN	0976947617

This compilation of quirky poems on beauty/society, identity, anxiety, relationships and obsessive compulsive disorder will keep you on your toes with blunt irony and dark humor. Both somber and funny at the same time, it includes delightfully dark illustrations by her daughter, Jasmyn.
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Final Girl

Author	Daphne Gottlieb
ISBN	1887128972

The one who remains to tell the story - the "final girl" - is the last girl left alive in this bracing cycle of poems that draw on slasher movies, captivity fantasies, queer theory, and death from breast cancer. Sexy and tart, low-down and high-hearted poems such as Suture, Slash, Vamp, and Bride of Reanimator...

The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters

Author	Bruce Parker
ISBN	0230112242

The Power of the Sea describes our struggle to understand the physics of the sea, so we can use that knowledge to predict when the sea will unleash its fury against us. In a wide-sweeping narrative spanning much of human history, Bruce Parker, former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service, interweaves...

Ballad Divine: Bhagavad-Gita

Author	Dev Bhattacharyya
ISBN	1495969835

Ballad-Divine brings back the Bhagavad-Gita in a very easy to read composition. It is an accurate reference of the original and observed facts and uses the same systemic method to divinity. Ballad-Divine is organized around the mainstays of Krishna's philosophy. Themes are repeated throughout...

Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories

Author	Pam Keesey
ISBN	1573440140

This anthology has a collection of eleven stories that push graphic edges and dare the reader to look away. Each story delves into the lore and mystery surrounding vampires with a wide range of style and voice. This anthology is not for anyone faint of heart or easily offended, although the best stories...

I Wrote a Poem About You

Author

Arthur Graham

It's all about you in this debut poetry collection from Arthur Graham.

Includes the following pieces:

Rarer than Kindness
Japan Again
Christmas Morning
Reunion
Lovelier Still
It's Whateva
Mouth Time
No Jealousy Issues
Expert Opinion
Hidden...

Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution

Author

Ronald K.L. Collins

By the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his life. A two-year stint in a reformatory straightened...

After the Witch Hunt

Author	Megan Falley
ISBN	1935904620

As if she discovered a small army of silenced women captive in her pen, Megan Falley releases them in the spilled ink that is her most brilliant collection of poems, After the Witch Hunt. Demanding "if you really love a writer, bury her in all your awful and watch as she scrawls her way out," her book does...

A Primer of Jungian Psychology

Author	Calvin Springer Hall
ISBN	0452011868

The contributions of Carl Jung to understanding of the human psyche are immense. Starting as Freud's most famous disciple, Jung soon broke away from his mentor to follow his own lines of investigation and discovery. Many of Jung's ideas are now considered fundamentals in the study of the mind, but other,...