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10 best books like Ooga-Booga: Poems (Frederick Seidel): Citizen: An American Lyric, A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series), Dog Songs, I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems, Versed, Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living, Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Notes on Camp

Citizen: An American Lyric
AuthorClaudia Rankine
ISBN1555976905
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media....
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
AuthorLawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN0811200418

This is one of the best-selling poetry books of all time, and, although that is no guarantee of poetic excellence—after all, Rod McKuen and Martin Farquar Tupper both sold a lot of books in their day—it is a sign that the author had his finger on the pulse of his time, that his work embodies the yearnings...
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
AuthorGeorge Saunders
ISBN1594481520
In a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, large enough for only one resident at a time, citizens waiting to enter the country fall under the rule of the power-hungry and tyrannical Phil, setting off a chain of injustice and mass hysteria.An Animal Farm for the 21st century, this is an incendiary...
Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series)
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0822953145
Poems examine life as a child, a woman, and a mother; death; and our relationship to the world. This book, Olds's first, was published when she was 37, and it launched her Pulitzer-winning career.

I am trying to write my
way out of the closed box
redolent of cedar. Satan
comes to me...
Dog Songs
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN1594204780
Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationship to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver's poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers,...
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems
AuthorEileen Myles
ISBN0062389106
A collection of thrilling new and beloved past work from one of America's most celebrated poets, Eileen Myles, a cult icon and modern favorite

Eileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral, in which Myles not only lets her readers...
Versed
AuthorRae Armantrout
ISBN0819568791
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010)
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009)

Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded...
Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
Last month I attended a women's retreat. At the retreat center, they had these little cards up all over the building with these great little meditations on daily living. All day, the meditations prompted me to pause and reflect as I washed my hands or looked in the mirror or took a step outside the front...
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
AuthorJustine Larbalestier
ISBN0819566764
Women's contributions to science fiction over the past century have been lasting and important, but critical work in the field has only just begun to explore its full range. Justine Larbalestier has collected 11 key stories--many of them not easily found, and all of them powerful and provocative--and...
Notes on Camp
AuthorSusan Sontag
ISBN0241339707
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'

These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering...
Anatomic
AuthorAdam Dickinson
ISBN1552453642
Anatomic is a poetry book that has emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to look at the wayThe poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to examine the way the outside writes the inside, both harmfully and necessarily....
While Standing in Line for Death
AuthorC.A. Conrad
ISBN1940696550
"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....
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