Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork

7 best books like Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork (Richard Brautigan): Night Sky with Exit Wounds, A Poetry Handbook, Poemland, Not Me (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents), West Wind, We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Author

Ocean Vuong

The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...

A Poetry Handbook

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	0156724006

A Poetry Handbook is something I wish I had read a lot earlier in my career as a student of literature, to say nothing of the tentative ventures I’ve made into writing poetry since I was young. A lot of people say this book is a good reiteration of things they learned in their college classes, but I sincerely...

Poemland

Author	Chelsey Minnis
ISBN	1933517417

A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, continuing the charge against the sacred in contemporary poetry. Poemland alternates brilliantly between the deadpan, the spectacular, and the outrageous.

If you open your mouth to start to...

Not Me (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

Author	Eileen Myles
ISBN	0936756675

Listen, I have been educated.I have learned about WesternCivilization. Do you knowWhat the message of WesternCivilization is? I am alone.This breakthrough volume, published in 1991 by the author of Cool For You and Chelsea Girls captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s....

West Wind

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	0395850851

The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform over time....

We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter

Author	Celeste Headlee
ISBN	0062669028

“WE NEED TO TALK.”

In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee shows us how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversations

BASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS
NPR's Best Books of 2017

Winner of the 2017 Silver...

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Author	Nancy Milford
ISBN	0375760814

Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and married), flouted convention sensationally,...