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I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems

10 best books like I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems (Eileen Myles): Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Year of the Monkey, A Sand Book, Jane: A Murder, Versed, Ooga-Booga: Poems, Something Bright, Then Holes, Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Anatomic

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
AuthorAndrea Lawlor
ISBN0986086991
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from...
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
AuthorChen Chen
ISBN1942683332
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes—all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces...
Year of the Monkey
AuthorPatti Smith
ISBN0525657681
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
A Sand Book
AuthorAriana Reines
ISBN0986437360
A Sand Book is a poetry collection in nine parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness...
Jane: A Murder
AuthorMaggie Nelson
ISBN1932360719
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area. Nelson...
Versed
AuthorRae Armantrout
ISBN0819568791
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010)
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009)

Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded...
Ooga-Booga: Poems
AuthorFrederick Seidel
ISBN0374226555
From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror,
rage, and desire.


Here I am, not a practical man,
But clear-eyed in my contact lenses,
Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others,
Seeking sexual pleasure above all else,
Despairing...
Something Bright, Then Holes
AuthorMaggie Nelson
ISBN1933368802
Maggie Nelson's fourth collection of poems combines a wanderer's attention to landscape with a deeply personal exploration of desire, heartbreak, resilience, accident, and flux. Something Bright, Then Holes explores the problem of losing then recovering sight and insight -- of feeling lost,...
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
AuthorJustine Larbalestier
ISBN0819566764
Women's contributions to science fiction over the past century have been lasting and important, but critical work in the field has only just begun to explore its full range. Justine Larbalestier has collected 11 key stories--many of them not easily found, and all of them powerful and provocative--and...
Anatomic
AuthorAdam Dickinson
ISBN1552453642
Anatomic is a poetry book that has emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to look at the wayThe poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to examine the way the outside writes the inside, both harmfully and necessarily....
While Standing in Line for Death
AuthorC.A. Conrad
ISBN1940696550
"From these rituals come notes; from those notes come poems; and from those poems comes not just a view into his process, but an entrance into another present." —Boston Globe

After his boyfriend Earth's murder, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome his depression....
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
AuthorClaudia Rankine
ISBN1555974074
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.

I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the...
Tender Buttons
AuthorGertrude Stein
ISBN0486298973
Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated into three sections - Food, Objects and Rooms each containing prose under subtitles. (Kellner, 1988, p. 61-62). Its publication in 1914 caused a great dispute between Mabel Dodge Luhan and Gertrude,...
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