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10 best books like Goat In The Snow (Emily Pettit): A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics, Snowflake, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, Indeed I Was Pleased With the World, With Deer, Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me, Fjords Vol.1, The Difficult Farm, Awe

A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics
AuthorC.A. Conrad
What is the best Love you've ever had in this world? Be quiet while thinking about that Love. If someone comes along and starts talking, quietly shoo them away, you're busy, you're a poet with a penny in your mouth. . . . Now get your pen and paper and write about POVERTY, write line after line about starvation...
Snowflake
AuthorEileen Myles
ISBN1933517581
In her first book of poetry since 2007, legendary poet, critic, and novelist Eileen Myles creates poet and poem anew as she pushes the boundaries of her craft ever closer to the enigmatic core. Snowflake finds the poet awash in an extended and distressed landscape mediated by technology and its distortion...
If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
AuthorMatthea Harvey
ISBN1555976840
A brilliant combination of poetry and visual artwork by Matthea Harvey, whose vision is “nothing short of blazingly original” (Time Out New York)

She didn’t even know she had a name until one day she heard the human explaining to another one, “Oh that’s just the backyard mermaid.”...
Worshipful Company of Fletchers
AuthorJames Tate
ISBN0880014318
bought this used. The dipshit before me underlined some nice parts and put marginalia in, some examples of: during the poem "An Eland, In Retirement" in response to the underlined couplet - beating drums, and women with/dinner plates in their lips - they wrote in curly cue blue pen, "it's like the poem...
Indeed I Was Pleased With the World
AuthorMary Ruefle
ISBN0887484670
from Indeed I Was Pleased with the World by Mary Ruefle:

Grief


First, it will comfort you to know there are crows.
And calipers for measuring the amount of sunshine
that can escape from under the shadows
of thought. Far out at sea ships go down
in a crippled light,...
With Deer
AuthorAase Berg
ISBN0977770974
In this, her first single-volume collection to be published in English, Aase Berg works a wicked necromancy in her poems. Filling each page with fluids and viscera she plunges into the palpable, pulsating center of our psyche--pulling up fistfuls of nightmares at once strange and familiar. To read...
Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me
AuthorMark Leidner
ISBN0983520305
Poetry. Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me is Mark Leidner's first full-length collection of poems. A collection of poems that might make you feel like a flower, like a black hole, like punishment meted out at night by a giant tractor, like you have to get on fire, then slowly walk around your old neighborhood,...
Fjords Vol.1
AuthorZachary Schomburg
ISBN0984475257
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,...
The Difficult Farm
AuthorHeather Christle
ISBN0980193834
The Difficult Farm is where you’ll find surprising jolts of the sweetest kindness delivered via poetry that’s new, urgent, blessed, beautiful, careful, tenacious, a little scary, very scary, and awfully generous to us all. When I read a poem by Heather Christle I’m awed. – Dara Wier

This...
Awe
AuthorDorothea Lasky
ISBN1933517247
If the book of Revelations had been scribbled in the diary of a precocious fourteen-year-old girl, the prophecies might look something like Awe. Dorothea Lasky is a daring truth-teller, naming names and boldly pushing the boundaries of confession. The secrets she tells are truths we recognize in...
The Babies
AuthorSabrina Orah Mark
ISBN0975499017
Funny and frightening, moving and unsettling, the prose poems in Mark’s debut collection take readers on a wild ride

The Babies, by Sabrina Orah Mark, is the premier winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Contest, judged by renowned poet Jane Miller (Memory at These Speeds: New and Selected...
The French Exit
AuthorElisa Gabbert
ISBN0982617712
"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...
Dispatch from the Future: Poems
AuthorLeigh Stein
ISBN1612191347
Funny, surprising and lyrical, these poems range from the deserts of the Southwest to the abysses of Facebook. From online dating to beauty pageants, Greek mythology to road trips, Leigh Stein gives us resilient young women in longing and in love.
 
Post-confessional—like Sylvia Plath...
Destruction Myth: Poems
AuthorMathias Svalina
ISBN1880834871
Poetry. Expanding the palette of contemporary surrealism while harkening back to the stories and prayers at the origin of poetry, DESTRUCTION MYTH is a series of absurdist myths of creation and destruction that are at times both inventively silly and surprisingly emotionally direct. This book attempts...
This Can't Be Life
AuthorDana Ward
ISBN1890311332
Poetry. THIS CAN'T BE LIFE is Dana Ward's first full-length collection of poetry. Although some of this writing may look like prose, everything here is written both AS, and under the sign of, "poetry." THIS CAN'T BE LIFE is an infinite frame-dissolve between art and life engined by the thoughts and feelings...
The Oregon Trail Is the Oregon Trail
AuthorGregory Sherl
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...
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
AuthorD.A. Powell
ISBN1555976050
I have this rearrangement to make:
symbolic death, my backward glance.
The way the past is a kind of future
leaning against the sporty hood.
                  —from “Bugcatching at Twilight” In D. A. Powell’s fifth book of poetry, the rollicking line...
Almost Invisible: Poems
AuthorMark Strand
ISBN0307957314
From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear...
Balloon Pop Outlaw Black
AuthorPatricia Lockwood
ISBN0985118229
Poetry. Even all by themselves, the titles of Patricia Lockwood's poems reveal the sort of surreal, enigmatic, rhetorically-elongated world her sensibility inhabits effortlessly: "When We Move Away From Here, You'll See A Clean Square of Paper Where His Picture Hung," "The Cartoon's Mother Builds...
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