Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems

9 best books like Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems (Cate Marvin): Our Andromeda, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, Mosquito, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl: Poems, Elegy Owed, Elegy, Trouble in Mind: Poems, Selected Poems of Rumi, The Year of No Mistakes: A Collection of Poetry

Our Andromeda

Author	Brenda Shaughnessy
ISBN	1556594100

Honored as a New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books of 2013"

Honored by Cosmopolitan as the one poetry title on their list of “Best Books of the Year For Women, by Women”

"A heady, infectious celebration."—The New Yorker

"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy,...

Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

Author	Patricia Lockwood
ISBN	0143126520

A breathtaking new collection from one of today’s boldest and most adventurous poets

Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood’s second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: what if a deer did porn? Is America going down on Canada? What happens...

Mosquito

Author	Alex Lemon
ISBN	0977312747

Lyrical and explosive, this debut book of poetry explores Alex Lemon’s experiences as a brain surgery patient. Mosquito blends autobiography and poetry, bearing witness to a young man’s journey through serious illness and his emergence into a world where eroticism, hope, and wisdom allow him...

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...

Elegy Owed

Author	Bob Hicok
ISBN	1556594364

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

“[Elegy Owed is a] fluid, absorbing new collection... Hicok gives readers unexpected conjunctions and oddly offbeat thoughts, most darkly whimsical, and has us embrace them wholeheartedly. If he can survive the scary carnival that is this...

Elegy

Author

Mary Jo Bang

Mary Jo Bang's fifth collection, Elegy, chronicles the year following the death of her son. By weaving the particulars of her own loss into a tapestry that also contains the elements common to all losses, Bang creates something far larger than a mere lament. Continually in search of an adequate metaphor...

Trouble in Mind: Poems

Author	Lucie Brock-Broido
ISBN	0375710221

With Trouble in Mind, her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known. A poet “at the border of her own allegory,”...

Selected Poems of Rumi

Author

Rumi

In recent years the stirring, unforgettable poetry of Jalālu’l-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273), the great Sūfi teacher and the greatest mystical poet of Iran, has gained tremendous popularity in the western world. Although he died over 700 years ago, his poetry is timeless. In the best modern translations,...

The Year of No Mistakes: A Collection of Poetry

Author	Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
ISBN	1938912349

Intimate, observant, and unflinchingly honest, The Year of No Mistakes is Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's tribute to the broken heart. Aptowicz's sixth poetry collection chronicles the author's story as she leaves New York City, her home of fourteen years, and bears witness to the unravelling of Aptowicz's...