Museum of Accidents
10 best books like Museum of Accidents (Rachel Zucker): Inland, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Magical Negro, Lighthead, Oceanic, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Little Labors, Calamities, Something Bright, Then Holes, While Standing in Line for Death
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after...
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
| Author | Chen Chen |
| ISBN | 1942683332 |
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...
| Author | Morgan Parker |
| ISBN | 1947793187 |
Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They...
| Author | Terrance Hayes |
| ISBN | 0143116967 |
Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry
In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant....
| Author | Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
| ISBN | 1556595263 |
In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the Earth and its inhabitants. Oceanic is both a title and an ethos of radical inclusion, inviting in the grief of an elephant, the icy eyes of a scallop, “the ribs / of a silver silo,” and the bright flash...
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0140586687 |
Well, I mean, GOD. You know? So beautiful. But also Ashbery sizing up the same kind of moral question over and over a dozen times in the space of a poem, and with dozens of poems (including the formidable and exhausting kind of index of ideas in the title poem) it just wrung me utterly dry.
I could...
| Author | Rivka Galchen |
| ISBN | 0811222969 |
Rivka Galchen’s Little Labors is a droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies and literature
Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book―a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen’s new book―contains a list of “Things That Make One Nervous.”...
| Author | Renee Gladman |
| ISBN | 1940696275 |
"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer—she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes." —Eileen Myles
A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original...
| Author | Maggie Nelson |
| ISBN | 1933368802 |
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,...
While Standing in Line for Death
| Author | C.A. Conrad |
| ISBN | 1940696550 |
"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....
| Author | Layli Long Soldier |
| ISBN | 1555977677 |
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award
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...
| Author | Terrance Hayes |
| ISBN | 0143126881 |
A dazzling new collection of poetry by Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead
In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of these poems bear the clearest imprint yet of Hayes’s background as...
