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On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

9 best books like On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths (Lucia Perillo): Lost Children Archive, The Snowy Day, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Blue Hour, One Secret Thing, When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop, Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems, Brave Enough

Lost Children Archive
AuthorValeria Luiselli
ISBN0525520619
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.

A...
The Snowy Day
AuthorEzra Jack Keats
ISBN0140501827
Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal!

No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day. Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
AuthorGlory Edim
ISBN0525619771
An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.

Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That...
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
AuthorRoss Gay
ISBN0822963310
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death,...
Blue Hour
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0060099135
"Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems...
One Secret Thing
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375711775
Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony.

The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion...
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
AuthorLaban Carrick Hill
ISBN1596435402
Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc.

On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks—the musical interludes between...
Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems
AuthorStephanie Burt
ISBN0465094503
An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre

In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating...
Brave Enough
AuthorCheryl Strayed
ISBN0345810872
From the best-selling author of Wild, a collection of quotes--drawn from the wide range of her writings--that capture her wisdom, courage, and outspoken humor, presented in a gift-sized package that's as irresistible to give as it is to receive.

Around the world, thousands of people have...
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