Not Vanishing

10 best books like Not Vanishing (Chrystos): I'm Afraid of Men, When My Brother Was an Aztec, A Place Called No Homeland, The Bacchae, Split Tooth, Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New, Jane: A Murder, Deltora Quest: Special Edition, Books 1-4, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Girl Town

I'm Afraid of Men
AuthorVivek Shraya
ISBN0735235937
"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one—one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind."
—Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun and Her Flowers...
AuthorNatalie Díaz
"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone,...
AuthorKai Cheng Thom
ISBN1551526794
This extraordinary poetry collection journeys to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monstrous women roam—and where the distinctions between body, land, and language are lost. In these fierce yet tender narrative poems, Thom draws from both memory and mythology to create new maps of...
The Bacchae
AuthorEuripides
ISBN1854594117
Dionysus is my favourite ancient Greek god. Why? Because he is the coolest, simple as.

“He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is laughter, and music in flutes.
He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep!"


- The Young...
AuthorTanya Tagaq
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.

Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous....
AuthorAudre Lorde
ISBN0393309754
I didn't love this the way I thought I would, if that makes sense. I've read Lorde's work before, but I never sat down and read a book of her poetry, cover-to-cover. After a while they all seemed to be the same poem, and they were so heavy with metaphor that I often didn't know what she was trying to say.

These...
Jane: A Murder
AuthorMaggie Nelson
ISBN1932360719
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area. Nelson...
AuthorEmily Rodda
ISBN0760742499
Deltora is a land of magic, monsters, and danger. The evil Shadow Lord has taken over the kingdom...and only three people can save it. Lief, Jasmine and Barda have nothing in common — and everything to lose. They must embark on a perilous quest to recapture the seven lost gems of the magic Belt of Deltora....
AuthorAnne Carson
ISBN1590171802
i hear lots of people claim to ‘love the translation’ of a text of which they don't speak the language of the original. am i stupid for wondering, if you don’t speak the original, how you can judge the translation? I mean, you can admit to digging many aspects of the language... but the translation?...
Girl Town
AuthorCarolyn Nowak
ISBN1603094385
Multi-award-winning cartoonist Carolyn Nowak (Lumberjanes) finds powerful truths in fantasy worlds. Her stunning solo debut collection celebrates the ascent of a rising star in comics.

Diana got hurt—a lot—and she's decided to deal with this fact by purchasing a life-sized robot...
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