Dark Matter
6 best books like Dark Matter (Aase Berg): Look, Metaphysical Dog, Too Much and Not the Mood, Life on Mars, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit, Juliet the Maniac
Look
| Author | Solmaz Sharif |
| ISBN | 1555977448 |
*Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award*Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of...
| Author | Frank Bidart |
| ISBN | 0374173613 |
In “Those Nights,” Frank Bidart writes: “We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not.” Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The...
Too Much and Not the Mood
| Author | Durga Chew-Bose |
| ISBN | 0374535957 |
On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer’s Diary with the words “too much and not the mood.” She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the “cramming...
Life on Mars
| Author | Tracy K. Smith |
| ISBN | 1555975844 |
To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What
Would your life say if it could talk?
—from...
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0876854374 |
Juliet the Maniac
| Author | Juliet Escoria |
| ISBN | 1612197590 |
Ambitious, talented 14-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon...