Second Childhood: Poems

10 best books like Second Childhood: Poems (Fanny Howe): Deaf Republic: Poems, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, House of Light, Seam, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002, The Dead and the Living, Bliss, Certain Magical Acts, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Deaf Republic: Poems

Author	Ilya Kaminsky
ISBN	1555978312

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...

Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Author	Kaveh Akbar
ISBN	1938584678

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." —Fanny Howe

This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous...

House of Light

Author

Mary Oliver

‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?’

Despite owning Oliver’s two volume New and Selected Poems, I couldn’t resist snatching up this tiny collection when I stumbled upon it at a library book sale in the fifty cents bin. Although it was her American...

Seam

Author	Tarfia Faizullah
ISBN	0809333252

The poems in this captivating collection weave beauty with violence, the personal with the historic as they recount the harrowing experiences of the two hundred thousand female victims of rape and torture at the hands of the Pakistani army during the 1971 Liberation War. As the child of Bangladeshi...

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Author	Rainer Maria Rilke
ISBN	1573225851

At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever...

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

Author	Joy Harjo
ISBN	0393325342

Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement.

This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous...

The Dead and the Living

Author	Sharon Olds
ISBN	0394715632

I saw that others were reading this review, so I pulled out this book at dawn and reread it and edited/ added some things in my review. Like this poem:

Possessed (for my parents)

I have never left.
Your bodies are before me
at all times, in the dark I see
the stars of your teeth...

Bliss

Author	Katherine Mansfield
ISBN	0141196130

Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. In these three tales, aglow with light and colour, Mansfield describes an exultant epiphany, fading...

Certain Magical Acts

Author	Alice Notley
ISBN	0143108166

An important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending book-length poems of great ambition and adventurousness....

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Author	Anne Carson
ISBN	1590171802

i hear lots of people claim to ‘love the translation’ of a text of which they don't speak the language of the original. am i stupid for wondering, if you don’t speak the original, how you can judge the translation? I mean, you can admit to digging many aspects of the language... but the translation?...

Kingdom Animalia

Author

Aracelis Girmay

The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay's lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set...

The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel

Author	Deborah Ellis
ISBN	1773061186

This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan.

Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building...