Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
10 best books like Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad (Alice Oswald): Ducks, Newburyport, Deaf Republic: Poems, Where Reasons End, Brute: Poems, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow (Faber Library), [insert] boy, Come, Thief, The World's Wife, The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems, Men in the Off Hours
Ducks, Newburyport
| Author | Lucy Ellmann |
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...
Where Reasons End
| Author | Yiyun Li |
The narrator writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we...
Brute: Poems
| Author | Emily Skaja |
| ISBN | 1555978355 |
Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from...
| Author | Ted Hughes |
| ISBN | 0571176550 |
[insert] boy
| Author | Danez Smith |
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0307595420 |
Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into a moment’s essence and exchange something of herself...
| Author | Carol Ann Duffy |
It's you I love,
perfect man,
Greek God, my own;
but I know you'll go,
betray me, stray
from home.
So better by far for
me if you were stone.
—from "Medusa"
Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau...
| Author | Molly McCully Brown |
| ISBN | 0892554789 |
Haunted by the voices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter of the American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century,...
| Author | Anne Carson |
| ISBN | 0375707565 |
In Men in the...
| Author | Louise Glück |
| ISBN | 0880015063 |
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| Author | Anne Carson |
| ISBN | 0307960587 |
did you give it 4 stars/i wanted it to be like Aof
R/ poetry is never the same/as i'm learning mostly
from the reviews i am too inexperienced to learn from
the book itself/some of these poems are surreal/they
are/you don't...
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...