S O S: Poems, 1961-2013
10 best books like S O S: Poems, 1961-2013 (Amiri Baraka): Pedagogy of the Oppressed, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, The Wretched of the Earth, Duplex, Meditations in an Emergency, Fear and Trembling, What the Living Do: Poems, A Poetry Handbook, I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems, Life Studies and For the Union Dead
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
| Author | Paulo Freire |
| ISBN | 0826412769 |
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United...
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
| Author | Morgan Parker |
| ISBN | 1941040535 |
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave between personal...
The Wretched of the Earth
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802141323 |
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...
| Author | Kathryn Davis |
| ISBN | 1555976530 |
Mary and Eddie are meant for each other—but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. Meanwhile, ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing...
Meditations in an Emergency
| Author | Frank O'Hara |
| ISBN | 0802134521 |
Frank O’Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, "which, by its vitality alone, became the...
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0143037579 |
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century.
In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety...
| Author | Marie Howe |
| ISBN | 0393318869 |
Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy, boys and girls growing into men and women, stories of a brother who in his dying could teach how to be most alive. What the Living Do reflects "a new form of confessional poetry, one shared...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0156724006 |
A Poetry Handbook is something I wish I had read a lot earlier in my career as a student of literature, to say nothing of the tentative ventures I’ve made into writing poetry since I was young. A lot of people say this book is a good reiteration of things they learned in their college classes, but I sincerely...
| Author | Eileen Myles |
| ISBN | 0062389106 |
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...
| Author | Robert Lowell |
| ISBN | 0374506280 |
This review is cross-posted from my blog, so forgive the rather overwhelming length.
I’ve been a bad, bad little aspiring poet. Naughtily, I’ve avoided reading a single collection of poetry—by a male writer—in all my years of writing, and, perhaps more criminally, done so even throughout...
| Author | Amy Leach |
| ISBN | 1571313346 |
Things That Are takes jellyfish, fainting goats, and imperturbable caterpillars as just a few of its many inspirations. In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the most far flung celestial bodies—considering the similarity of gods to donkeys, the inexorability of...
Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s
| Author | Brad Gooch |
| ISBN | 0062354957 |
Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the late 1970s, yearning for artistic and personal freedom. Smash Cut is his bold and intimate memoir of this exhilarating time and place. At its center is his love affair with film director Howard Brookner, pieced together from fragments of memory and fueled by a panoply...
