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10 best books like Splitting an Order (Ted Kooser): The Beauty: Poems, Cape Verdean Blues, Kipling: Poems, Astonishments: Selected Poems, A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, Late Wife, Once in the West: Poems, Facts About the Moon, Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology

The Beauty: Poems
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0385351070
The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of  American poetry’s most distinctive and essential voices, opens with a series of dappled, ranging “My” poems—“My Skeleton,” “My Corkboard,” “My Species,” “My Weather”—using materials sometimes familiar,...
Cape Verdean Blues
AuthorShauna Barbosa
ISBN0822965216
 “These words feel like experiences. Some are personal, most are enlightening, but all connect. Connect on a higher Level. A spiritual level.”
—Kendrick Lamar, Grammy Award-winning artist, and winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music

-- A Lit Hub Favorite Book of 2018 

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Kipling: Poems
AuthorRudyard Kipling
ISBN0307267113
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including...
Astonishments: Selected Poems
AuthorAnna Kamieńska
ISBN1557255288
Anna Kamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism. These experiences, as well as the sudden death of her husband, led her to engagement with the Bible and the great religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Her poems record the struggles of a rational...
A Maze Me: Poems for Girls
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0060581891
A collection of seventy-two poems written especially for girls ages twelve and up by the much-honored and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye. "A lovely, rich collection that promises to be a lasting companion for young writers."—School Library Journal (starred review)

First love, friendship,...
Late Wife
AuthorClaudia Emerson
ISBN0807130842
In Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for...
Once in the West: Poems
AuthorChristian Wiman
ISBN0374227012
One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Winner of the 2015 Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit in Poetry


A searing new collection from one of our country's most important poets

Memories...
Facts About the Moon
AuthorDorianne Laux
ISBN0393329623
This is a great collection. I can't get over how well she uses image, how image opens and opens and you become swept up in it, and suddenly see that you've been privy to an entire story that now, in a way, has become part of your own life. There's much sensuality, some humor, tremendous tenderness and joy.

The...
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
AuthorHayden Carruth
ISBN1556591101
There can be no doubt that Hayden Carruth is one of the preeminent American poets of the late twentieth century. In these poems written since publication of his Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, he speaks with intimate and urgent clarity of love late...
Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology
AuthorRobert Pinsky
ISBN0393048209
The selections in this anthology were chosen form the personal letters of thousands of Americans who responded to Robert Pinsky's invitation to write to him about their favorite poems. Some poems are memories treasured in the mind since childhood; some crystallize the passion of love or recall the...
Caribou: Poems
AuthorCharles Wright
ISBN0374119023
A powerfully moving meditation on life, nature, and the beyond, from one of our finest American poets

This is an old man’s poetry,
written by someone who’s spent his life
Looking for one truth.
Sorry, pal, there isn’t one.
     —from “Ancient of Days”


Charles...
In the Next Galaxy
AuthorRuth Stone
ISBN1556592078
“Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness, their strangeness, their sudden familiarity, the authority of their insights, the moral gulps they prompt, their fierce exactness of language and memory.”—Galway Kinnell on...
3 Sections
AuthorVijay Seshadri
The long-awaited third poetry book by Vijay Seshadri, “one of the most respected poets working in America today” (Time Out New York)

First I had three
apocalyptic visions, each more terrible than the last.
The graves open, and the sea rises to kill us all.
Then the doorbell...
Braided Creek
AuthorJim Harrison
ISBN1556591888
After Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser had exchanged letters and poems for years, Kooser was diagnosed with cancer. "Ted's poetry became overwhelmingly vivid," Harrison recalls. "Then we decided to correspond in short poems, because that was the essence of what we wanted to say to each other."

"Braided...
Deep Lane: Poems
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0393353222
Mark Doty’s poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that—as Philip Levine says—“looks away from nothing.” In the poems of Deep Lane the stakes are higher: there is more to lose than...
News of the World
AuthorPhilip Levine
ISBN0307272230
A superb new collection from “a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review).

In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent...
Thrall
AuthorNatasha Trethewey
ISBN0547571607
The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard, by America’s new Poet Laureate

Natasha Trethewey’s poems are at once deeply personal and historical—exploring her own interracial and complicated roots—and utterly American, connecting them...
Second Childhood: Poems
AuthorFanny Howe
ISBN1555976824
The new poetry collection by Fanny Howe, whose "body of work seems larger, stranger, and more permanent with each new book she publishes" (Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize citation)

People want to be poets for reasons that have little to do with language.
It's the life of the poet that they want.
Even...
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