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10 best books like Teahouse of the Almighty (Patricia Smith): American Sublime: Poems, leadbelly, This Time: New and Selected Poems, Red Suitcase, What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems, In the Next Galaxy, Given Sugar, Given Salt, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000, Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected, Domestic Work: Poems

American Sublime: Poems
AuthorElizabeth Alexander
ISBN1555974325
A brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose "poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post)

Too many people have seen too much
and lived to tell, or not tell, or tell
with their silent, patterned bodies,
their...
leadbelly
AuthorTyehimba Jess
ISBN0974635332
“It is exhilarating to be invited into a world so large and muscular, so rooted in history, a world where so much is at stake.”—Brigit Pegeen Kelly, National Poetry Series judge

A biography in poems, leadbelly examines the life and times of the legendary blues musician from a variety...
This Time: New and Selected Poems
AuthorGerald Stern
ISBN0393319091
"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long /...
Red Suitcase
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN1880238152
Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her...
What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems
AuthorMarge Piercy
ISBN0679765948
This is probably my favorite poem from the book. Just beautiful.



On guard

I want you for my bodyguard,
to curl round each other like two socks
matched and balled in a drawer.

I want you to warm my backside,
two S's snaked curve to curve
in the down burrow...
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...
Given Sugar, Given Salt
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060959010
In this luminous and authoritative new collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews once wrote of her work, in their "praise of ceaseless mutability as life's central splendor."

In poems...
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000
AuthorLucille Clifton
ISBN1880238888
Lucille Clifton: Ave Atque Vale

Lucille Clifton is gone but her legacy of simple, honestly felt, seemingly spontaneously written poems about the live of ordinary people who become icons almost by accident will live on, especially through the collection of her works in this award winning...
Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
AuthorStanley Kunitz
ISBN0393316157
"Winner of the 1995 National Book Award, Passing Through confirms that the venerable doyen of American poetry is still a poet in his prime."—Atlantic Monthly

Stanley Kunitz, one of the masters of contemporary poetry, presents his ninth collection, gathering a rich selection of his work,...
Domestic Work: Poems
AuthorNatasha Trethewey
ISBN1555973094
Winner of the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award

In this widely celebrated debut collection of poems, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken...
Hip Logic
AuthorTerrance Hayes
ISBN0142001392
The second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award

Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson,...
Duende
AuthorTracy K. Smith
ISBN1555974756
Every poem is the story of itself.
Pure conflict. Its own undoing.
Breeze of dreams, then certain death.
--from "History"
Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico García Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead...
Head Off & Split
AuthorNikky Finney
ISBN0810152169
Winner of 2011 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of 2012 GLCS Award for Poetry
Winner of 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry
Nominee for 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry

The poems in Nikky Finney’s breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split...
Collected Poems
AuthorLynda Hull
ISBN1555974570
The definitive collection of the poems of Lynda Hull, "perhaps the most intensely lyrical poet of her generation." (Mark Doty)


If each of us
contains, within, humankind's totality, each possibility
then I have been so fractured, so multiple & dazzling . . .
--from "The...
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...
M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A
AuthorA. Van Jordan
ISBN0393327647
MacNolia by A. Van Jordan is a wonderful poetry collection worth reading many times. It reads like a novel because the author provides a fairly integrated story imagined by Jordan but based on a real life event. He doles out the background information in hints and pieces from several viewpoints throughout...
New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995
AuthorThomas Lux
One of the New York Public Library's 25 "Books to Remember" in 1997

Lux comments on the absurd, the pathetic, and the commonplace in our culture, writing with compassion as well as satire. He is "singular among his peers in his ability to convey with a deceptive lightness the paradoxes of human...
Teeth
AuthorAracelis Girmay
ISBN1931896364
Stunning, highly original poems that celebrate the richness of the author's multicultural tradition, Teeth explores loves, wars, wild hope, defiance, and the spirit of creativity in a daring use of language and syntax. Behind this language one senses a powerful, inventive woman who is not afraid...
Looking for the Gulf Motel
AuthorRichard Blanco
ISBN0822962012
Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel, is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family’s emotion legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three...
Against Which
AuthorRoss Gay
ISBN1933880007
An exploration of the various ways language can help us transcend both the banal and unusual cruelties which are inevitably delivered to us, and which we equally deliver unto others. These poems comb through violence and love, fear and loss, exploring the common denominators in each. Against Which...
Pink Elephant
AuthorRachel McKibbens
Poetry. PINK ELEPHANT is Rachel McKibbens' collection of beautifully crafted, emotionally searing poems depicting the fractured mythology of a family's tumultuous life. Picking up where Plath and Sexton have left off, McKibbens threatens the comfortable confines of confessional poetry with...
Fast Animal
AuthorTim Seibles
ISBN0983294429
This collection by African American poet Tim Seibles explores a range of poetic form, including lyric, ode, narrative, and mystical. Like a "fast animal," the poet's voice can swiftly change direction and tone as he crisscrosses between present and past.

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