Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems

9 best books like Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems (Kim Addonizio): Calling a Wolf a Wolf, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Native Guard, The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems, While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness, Elegy, Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places, Erotic Poems, Indecency

Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Author	Kaveh Akbar
ISBN	1938584678

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." —Fanny Howe

This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous...

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

Author	Alexander Chee
ISBN	1328764524

From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art.

As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times,...

Native Guard

Author	Natasha Trethewey
ISBN	0618872655

Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey's resonant and...

The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems

Author

Charles Simic

Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of contemporary...

While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness

Author	Eli Sanders
ISBN	0670015717

“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment Weekly

A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account of one young man’s path to murder—and a wake-up call for mental health care in America
 
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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...

Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places

Author	Naomi Shihab Nye
ISBN	1570030820

In "Never in a Hurry the poet Naomi Shihab Nye" resists the American tendency to "leave toward places whenn we barely have time enough to get there." Instaed she travels the world at an observant pace, talking to strangers and introducing readers to an endearing assemblage of great-great-aunts, eccentric...

Erotic Poems

Author	E.E. Cummings
ISBN	0871406594

E. E. Cummings’s erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume.

Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke....

Indecency

Author	Justin Phillip Reed
ISBN	1566895146

Intricate, Intimate, Difficult, and Confrontational Poems That Push at the Boundaries of Selfhood, Skin, Culture, Sexuality, and Blood.

Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity...