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Scribbled in the Dark: Poems

10 best books like Scribbled in the Dark: Poems (Charles Simic): A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, Bright Dead Things, Horoscopes for the Dead, Wade in the Water: Poems, Life on Mars, Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature, The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, The Carrying: Poems, Alay-Oop: Life and Love Among the Acrobats, Told Entirely in Pictures

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...
Bright Dead Things
AuthorAda Limon
ISBN1571314717
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately “disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.”

A book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger...
Horoscopes for the Dead
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN1400064929
Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this new collection, Horoscopes for the Dead, the verbal gifts that earned him the title “America’s most popular poet” are on full display. The poems here cover the usual but everlasting...
Wade in the Water: Poems
AuthorTracy K. Smith
Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the ones
Jangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they...
Life on Mars
AuthorTracy K. Smith
ISBN1555975844
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself
To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What
Would your life say if it could talk? 
                                                           —from...
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature
AuthorMeredith Maran
ISBN0142181978
Everything an aspiring memoirist needs to know, in one readable volume, a follow-up to the acclaimed writers’ handbook Why We Write
 
For the many amateurs and professionals who write about themselves—bloggers, journal-keepers, aspiring essayists, and memoirists—this book...
The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems
AuthorMolly McCully Brown
ISBN0892554789
Harrowing poems from a dark corner of American history by the winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.

Haunted by the voices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter of the American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century,...
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
AuthorTerrance Hayes
ISBN0143133187
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares....
The Carrying: Poems
AuthorAda Limon
ISBN1571315128
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.

Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the...
Alay-Oop: Life and Love Among the Acrobats, Told Entirely in Pictures
AuthorWilliam Gropper
. A story told in pictures: an opera singer weds a female acrobat, makes her leave show business; later, her old partner comes back and convinces her to leave her husband (with her two twin children). In the end, the singer sells fruit on the street, the male acrobat is a steel worker, and the woman and her...
Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems
AuthorTony Hoagland
Tony Hoagland’s poems interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. His new poems are no less observant of the human and the worldly, no less skeptical, and no less amusing, but they have drifted...
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