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10 best books like The Country Without a Post Office (Agha Shahid Ali): Dance Dance Revolution, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, Dien Cai Dau, Contemporary American Poetry, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, What We Carry, Notes from the Divided Country: Poems, Miracle Fair: Selected Poems

Dance Dance Revolution
AuthorCathy Park Hong
ISBN0393064840
Cathy Park Hong is a true artist of language. Here she has constructed a pidgin out of numerous major world languages, and wielded it masterfully in the voices of her characters to speak about revolution, corruption and the landscape of the future. Definitely read these poems aloud to fully enjoy the...
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
AuthorJames Weldon Johnson
ISBN0140184031
James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers...
Dien Cai Dau
AuthorYusef Komunyakaa
ISBN0819511641
Most days, I sit in a Center for Writing, reviewing papers for college students, and clarifying the proper formatting and style required by the Modern Language Association (MLA), as relates to scholastic writing. As I notice varying writing styles, I suggest books for students to read, based on their...
Contemporary American Poetry
AuthorA. Poulin Jr.
ISBN0395745322
I own many books of poetry and a few poetry anthologies. It is rare that an anthology includes all of the poets whose work I admire, but this is one of those. As is the case for many anthologies, for those who are looking for samples of more experimental work, this is not for you. This includes the typical major...
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0393309762
I read this for my Poetry & Protest class and I just wanted to catalogue the poems that I read on Goodreads. I'd love to read this whole collection someday and hopefully I will, but for now, here are the poems that I have read:

"A Working Party" by Siegfried Sassoon
Really intense poem that...
Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims
AuthorRabindranath Tagore
ISBN1559213159
FIREFLIES were proverbs, aphorisms and maxims originated in China and Japan and were often written on pieces of silk. Tagore visited Japan and collected them in his notebooks. Each firefly, rarely more than a sentence long, represents a luminous thought on love, life, beauty or God. Each page of this...
The Widening Spell of the Leaves
AuthorLarry Levis
ISBN0822954540
For my money, this is Levis' best book. I admit there are times when I fluctuate between it and Elegy, which seems to be most people's favorite. But the longer sequence in this book, "The Perfection of Solitude," is one of the most sincere, confounding, and ambitious explorations into the lyric Levis...
What We Carry
AuthorDorianne Laux
ISBN1880238071
Hadn't read this in a dozen or more years (thanks again Boone), and it's hot-damn fantastic. Here's an excerpt from one of my favorites, "After Twelve Days of Rain," which you can hear her read here:

Today, pumping gas into my old car, I stood
hatless in the rain and the whole world
went...
Notes from the Divided Country: Poems
AuthorSuji Kwock Kim
ISBN0807128732
Notes from a Divided Country, Kim's first collection of poetry, confronts a number of difficult subjects - colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation and a divided self: what it means to enter language, the body, the family,...
Miracle Fair: Selected Poems
AuthorWisława Szymborska
ISBN0393323854
Winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty, and the illusory...
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
AuthorMahmoud Darwish
ISBN0520237544
Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. He is a living legend whose lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has assimilated some of the world's oldest literary...
The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems
AuthorFaiz Ahmad Faiz
ISBN0870239759
The Rebel's Silhouette is a collection of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of the most famous Urdu poets, translated by Agha Shahid Ali, many of them written while Mr. Faiz was in prison.

The word "Beloved" is often used in poetry and ghazals to refer to either a lover or to God. What the brilliant Mr....
Your Native Land, Your Life
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393310825
The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions—Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life.


The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different...
Selected Odes
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN0520227085
The atom, a tuna, laziness, love—the everyday elements and essences of human experience glow in the translucent language of Neruda's odes. Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wrote three books of odes during his lifetime. Odas elementales was published in 1954, followed in subsequent years by Nuevas odas...
When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
AuthorGalway Kinnell
ISBN0679732810
Kinnell studied at Princeton University, graduating in 1948. He later obtained a Master's degree from the University of Rochester.

As a young man, Kinnell served in the US Navy and traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East. His first volume of poetry, What a Kingdom It Was, was published...
I'm the Man Who Loves You
AuthorAmy King
ISBN1934289337
Poetry. "Amy King's mercurial poems capture the instability of cultural, sexual, and poetic identity. In the circuitry of her illuminated, incongruous, but somehow perfectly apt details, 'the alien befits us.' With a nod to Gertrude Stein and Fernando Pessoa, as well as cameos by Frida Kahlo, Maya...
Songs of Kabir
AuthorKabir
ISBN1406931853
DANCE, my heart! dance to-day with joy.
The strains of love fill the days and the nights with music, and the world is listening to its melodies:
Mad with joy, life and death dance to the rhythm of this music. The hills and the sea and the earth dance. The world of man dances in laughter and tears.
...
The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading
AuthorNilanjana Roy
ISBN9350297116
From Bankimchandra Chatterjee to G.V. Desani to Vikram Seth, Indian writing in English has come a long way over the last hundred years. And Nilanjana Roy – voracious eater of books and sharpest of critics – has taken stock of it all.

One of India’s most widely read journalists, Roy has...
Migritude
AuthorShailja Patel
ISBN1885030053
The U.S. debut of internationally acclaimed poet and performance artist Shailja Patel, Migritude is a tour-de-force hybrid text that confounds categories and conventions. Part poetic memoir, part political history, Migritude weaves together family history, reportage and monologues to create...
Beginning with O
AuthorOlga Broumas
ISBN0300021119
Olga Broumas foi a 72a poeta a ganhar Yale Series of Young Poets e a primeira nao-anglofona que escreveu em inglês como segunda lingua. Nasceu na Grécia e assim como Safo, também escreve poemas saficos.
A primeira parte é intitulada Twelve Aspects of God, ela homeageia as deusas, semi-deusas,...
கணையாழியின் கடைசிப் பக்கங்கள் [Kanaiyazhiyin Kadaisi Pakkangal]
Authorசுஜாதா (Sujatha Rangarajan)
I can never, ever, ever over state the brilliance of our legend Sujatha.

Some of the parts of Kanayaazhiyin.. were written 50 years ago and it's still damn relevant.

He has written about Steve Jobs in the 1980s, he typed his Tamil works in Macintosh systems(that too in 80s).Some of His...
Commons
AuthorMyung Mi Kim
ISBN0520231449
Myung Mi Kim's Commons weighs on the most sensitive of scales the minute grains of daily life in both peace and war, registering as very few works of literature have done our common burden of being subject to history. Abstracting colonization, war, immigration, disease, and first-language loss until...
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