Loop of Jade
10 best books like Loop of Jade (Sarah Howe): There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, Deaf Republic: Poems, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Troilus and Cressida, When Sadness Is at Your Door, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, The New Testament, Look, Richard II, Wade in the Water: Poems
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
| Author | Morgan Parker |
| ISBN | 1941040535 |
Deaf Republic: Poems
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 1555978312 |
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?
Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
| Author | Chen Chen |
| ISBN | 1942683332 |
Troilus and Cressida
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0671669168 |
When I was young and naive, I loved Troilus and Cressida for its brave cynicism, but now that I am older--and my outlook is bleaker--I appreciate it for its realism and compassion. Shakespeare shows us a world in which lovers yearn to be true and warriors strive to be brave, but both inevitably fail,...
When Sadness Is at Your Door
| Author | Eva Eland |
| ISBN | 0525707182 |
Sadness can be scary and confusing at any age! When we feel sad, especially for long periods of time, it can seem...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
| Author | Ocean Vuong |
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...
| Author | Jericho Brown |
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...
Richard II
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0198320043 |
King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some...
Wade in the Water: Poems
| Author | Tracy K. Smith |
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the ones
Jangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they...
| Author | Marie Howe |
| ISBN | 0393318869 |
| Author | Alice Oswald |
| Author | Emily Berry |
| ISBN | 0571284051 |
In a collection with a taste for ventriloquy and wickedness, and a flair...
| Author | Emily Berry |
| ISBN | 0571331327 |
Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour...
| Author | Ted Hughes |
| ISBN | 0571176550 |
| Author | Jo Shapcott |
| ISBN | 0571254705 |
| Author | Andrew McMillan |
| ISBN | 0224102133 |
Three Poems
| Author | Hannah Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0571337678 |
One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 2018
Hannah Sullivan’s debut collection is a revelation – three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity, and substance. Though each poem stands apart, their inventive and looping encounters...
Whereas
| Author | Layli Long Soldier |
| ISBN | 1555977677 |
WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our...