The Continuous Life

10 best books like The Continuous Life (Mark Strand): Abbott, Underland, Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream, A Fortune for Your Disaster, Stag's Leap: Poems, 1919, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays, Actual Air, My Alexandria, The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated

Abbott

Author	Saladin Ahmed
ISBN	1684152453

While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city’s elite.

In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid...

Underland

Author	Robert Macfarlane
ISBN	0393242145

An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...

Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream

Author

Sarah Churchwell

SELECTED AS A 2018 SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, I-PAPER AND THE BIG ISSUE

'Enormously entertaining' SUNDAY TIMES
'Fascinating' NEW STATESMAN
'Excoriating, brilliant' ALI SMITH
'Enthralling' GUARDIAN
'My number one contributor when it comes to US politics'...

A Fortune for Your Disaster

Author

Hanif Abdurraqib

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book...

Stag's Leap: Poems

Author	Sharon Olds
ISBN	0375712259

Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart...

1919

Author	Eve L. Ewing
ISBN	1608465985

Poetic reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots that comprised the “Red Summer” of violence across the nation’s cities, is an event that has shaped...

Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	0807068756

Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life-hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows, and, of course, the snowy owl; among a dozen others-including ten poems original...

Actual Air

Author	David Berman
ISBN	1890447048

David Berman reinvents the overlooked and seemingly ordinary details of everyday life--from the suitcase of a departing girlfriend to a baseboard electrical outlet. His poems chart a course through his own highly original American dreamscape in language that is fresh, accessible, and remarkably...

My Alexandria

Author	Mark Doty
ISBN	0252022106

A versatile, technically astute poet, Doty masterfully tackles themes of death, beauty and discovery in this collection. Particularly moving is "Days of 1981," in which he recalls the memory of his first gay lover--a sculptor he met in a bar. "Nothing was promised, nothing sustained/or lethal offered....

The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated

Author	Helaine Olen
ISBN	1591847680

TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated and if you don’t follow their guidance, you’ll end up in the poorhouse. They’re wrong.

When University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack interviewed Helaine Olen, an award-winning...