Ordinary Sun

10 best books like Ordinary Sun (Matthew Henriksen): Our Andromeda, Mosquito, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl: Poems, Crossing the Water, Elegy Owed, Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems, Trouble in Mind: Poems, The Babies, Almost Invisible: Poems, The Year of No Mistakes: A Collection of Poetry

Our Andromeda

Author	Brenda Shaughnessy
ISBN	1556594100

Honored as a New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books of 2013"

Honored by Cosmopolitan as the one poetry title on their list of “Best Books of the Year For Women, by Women”

"A heady, infectious celebration."—The New Yorker

"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy,...

Mosquito

Author	Alex Lemon
ISBN	0977312747

Lyrical and explosive, this debut book of poetry explores Alex Lemon’s experiences as a brain surgery patient. Mosquito blends autobiography and poetry, bearing witness to a young man’s journey through serious illness and his emergence into a world where eroticism, hope, and wisdom allow him...

I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl: Poems

Author	Karyna McGlynn
ISBN	1932511768

I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl is film noir set in verse, each poem a miniature crime scene with its own set of clues—frosted eye-shadow, a pistol under a horse’s eye, dripping window units, an aneurysm opening its lethal trap. In otherworldly vignettes, 1994 pairs the unreliable narration...

Crossing the Water

Author	Sylvia Plath
ISBN	0060907894

Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath’s life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation. Readers will recognise some of her most...

Elegy Owed

Author	Bob Hicok
ISBN	1556594364

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

“[Elegy Owed is a] fluid, absorbing new collection... Hicok gives readers unexpected conjunctions and oddly offbeat thoughts, most darkly whimsical, and has us embrace them wholeheartedly. If he can survive the scary carnival that is this...

Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems

Author	Cate Marvin
ISBN	1932511512

update: I'm thinking this could have been edited into a slimmer and more powerful collection, because I feel like some of the poems were powerful and unique whereas others were just mediocre and not so unique.

Overall, 3 3/4 stars.

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Macabre in a creepily sing songy manner....

Trouble in Mind: Poems

Author	Lucie Brock-Broido
ISBN	0375710221

With Trouble in Mind, her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known. A poet “at the border of her own allegory,”...

The Babies

Author	Sabrina Orah Mark
ISBN	0975499017

Funny and frightening, moving and unsettling, the prose poems in Mark’s debut collection take readers on a wild ride

The Babies, by Sabrina Orah Mark, is the premier winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Contest, judged by renowned poet Jane Miller (Memory at These Speeds: New and Selected...

Almost Invisible: Poems

Author	Mark Strand
ISBN	0307957314

From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear...

The Year of No Mistakes: A Collection of Poetry

Author	Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
ISBN	1938912349

Intimate, observant, and unflinchingly honest, The Year of No Mistakes is Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's tribute to the broken heart. Aptowicz's sixth poetry collection chronicles the author's story as she leaves New York City, her home of fourteen years, and bears witness to the unravelling of Aptowicz's...