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10 best books like No Thanks (E.E. Cummings): Sara, or The Existence of Fire, Mountains and Rivers Without End, i'm alive / it hurts / i love it, I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women, An Introduction to Poetry, Middle Earth: Poems, What Is Amazing, I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 2: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Postwar to Millennium

Sara, or The Existence of Fire
AuthorSara June Woods
ISBN0982989695
"Sara's father is a wolf. Her dog is a miracle. These little poem-stories are feral in content but meticulous in construction. They are little miracles adding up to the sum of a beautiful storybook." - Dena Rash Guzman, author of Life Cycle--Poems

"As I have learned, and as Sara helped me to understand...
Mountains and Rivers Without End
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN1887178570
When this landmark work was first published, Gary Snyder was honored with the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Orion Societys John Hay Award. Publishers Weekly named Mountains and Rivers Without End one of the best books of 1996. On April 8, 1956, Gary Snyder...
i'm alive / it hurts / i love it
AuthorJoshua Jennifer Espinoza
There were some poems that I really liked here, some I didn't.  But that's the same with any poetry book, you like some, you don't like some.  But I really respected this book--it takes a lot for anybody to speak their truth and put it out there like this, especially to the subjective opinions of critics...
I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women
AuthorCaroline Bergvall
ISBN1934254332
Conceptual writing is emerging as a vital 21st century literary movement and I’ll Drown My Book represents the contributions of women in this defining moment. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, I’ll Drown My Book takes its name from a poem by Bernadette...
An Introduction to Poetry
AuthorX.J. Kennedy
ISBN0321470346
Kennedy/Gioia's An Introduction to Poetry, 12e, continues to inspire readers and writers with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry.  This bestselling anthology includes more than 500 of the discipline's greatest poems, blending classic...
Middle Earth: Poems
AuthorHenri Cole
ISBN0374529280
Time was plunging forward,
like dolphins scissoring open water or like me,
following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef,
where the color of sand, sea and sky merged,
and it was as if that was all God wanted:
not a wife, a house or a position,
but a self, like a needle, pushing...
What Is Amazing
AuthorHeather Christle
ISBN0819572772
Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the...
I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation
AuthorFrancis Picabia
ISBN0262162431
Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, Andre Breton called Picabia one of the only "true" Dadas. Yet very little of Picabia's poetry and prose has been translated into...
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
AuthorPaul Hoover
ISBN0393310906
Postmodern American Poetry provides a deep and wide selection-411 poems by 103 poets-of the major poets and movements of the late twentieth century. Included are the leading Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, and "Deep Image" poets. Included, too, is the rich array of poetry written...
Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 2: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Postwar to Millennium
AuthorJerome Rothenberg
ISBN0520208641
As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of contemporary poetry....
You Are Not Dead
AuthorWendy Xu
ISBN0986025720
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "In YOU ARE NOT DEAD Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this...
i am like october when i am dead
AuthorSteve Roggenbuck

So this is Alt-lit. Alt-lit is short for Alternative Literature. It is often described as a kind of community of writers who use the internet as their main method to promote their work. So things like short stories and poetry etc.

"i am like october when i am dead" was an e-book 15 pages long...
No One Can Do Anything Worse to You Than You Can
AuthorSam Pink
ISBN1621050246
Why is it that we're always afraid of our ankles getting grabbed by a hand coming out of the gutter? And why will our lives be completely fulfilled when we look down one day and notice we're wearing underwear made out of a brown paper bag?

Thankfully, you don't have to think about any of that because...
The Collected Fanzines
AuthorHarmony Korine
ISBN0982048009
Film director Harmony Korine, whose work includes "Gummo," "Julien Donkey Boy," and most recently "Mister Lonely," has also worked in the field of graphic art, releasing the books "A Crack Up at the Race Riots" and "Pass the Bitch Chicken" in the past decade. Before those books, he and fellow artist...
Eat When You Feel Sad
AuthorZachary German
ISBN1933633859
All the sad young pop-culture-saturated hyperliterary men mope their way under our skin, one deadpan, declarative sentence at a time

Eat When You Feel Sad is a novel about Robert. Eat When You Feel Sad is a novel about a generation. Robert was born in the 1980s. He was born in the United States...
a million bears
AuthorSpencer Madsen
I received this book in the mail today. I read this book tonight. I read this book instead of sleeping. I wasn't sleeping because life seemed pointless and therefore sleep seemed pointless. I feel like Spencer Madsen would understand this. I tweeted and read other things online and had The Dark Knight...
Poems and Drawings: Slipcase 3-Book Box Set
AuthorShel Silverstein
ISBN0060511494
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An Island of Fifty
AuthorBen Brooks
ISBN0983026343
Fiction. "AN ISLAND OF FIFTY is a new literary bomb, resulting in the shrapnel of gold, ships, ocean, chandeliers, dreams, blood, and flame. Old and stale literature won't know what just hit. This is something new masking itself in the old and I'm so so so excited" Shane Jones. "Ben Brooks is popping quarks...
Fruits & Vegetables
AuthorErica Jong
ISBN0030859980
This was a fun, quick read. I know Erica Jong had written Fear of Flying, but I was still surprised by how sexy and funny these poems were. My favorite lines were from "Two More Scenes from the Lives of the Vegetables II: Carrot," which read:
"Actually we believe the carrot to be
God's penis.
That...
Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN0811206513
The eighty-four poems included in this small volume will serve as a sound and inviting introduction to Rilke's strategies in the pursuit of "being." And just as the unicorn in "This Is the Creature" has an eternal "possibility of being" but only becomes visible in the mirror held by a virgin, so can our...
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
AuthorTheodore Roethke
ISBN1556592485

“There are only two passions in art; there are love and hate—with endless modifications.”—Theodore Roethke


At his death, Theodore Roethke left behind 277 spiral notebooks full of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialogue,...
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