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10 best books like The Leaf And The Cloud: A Poem (Mary Oliver): Picnic, Lightning, On the Bus With Rosa Parks, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Astonishments: Selected Poems, Song, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, The Insistence of Beauty, Caribou: Poems, The House of Belonging, The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

Picnic, Lightning
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN0822956705
Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize

Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad...
On the Bus With Rosa Parks
AuthorRita Dove
Poet Rita Dove was named Poet Laureate of the United States in 1993 at the age of 40. Much of her work is about the African-American experience, although many of her poems also show her love of music, history, and creativity. A group of poems about a working class family going through difficult times begins...
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060925760
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.

My favorites were:

p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
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...
Song
AuthorBrigit Pegeen Kelly
ISBN1880238136
I read "Song" in graduate school and immediately bought this book, but never made it all the way through. Now I am ashamed of my graduate school self, because this book? INCREDIBLE. It's not always easy to get through Kelly's poems, because they're very dense, but they're also immaculately crafted....
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...
The Insistence of Beauty
AuthorStephen Dunn
ISBN0393327434
"Beauty isn't nice. Beauty isn't fair;" So, in part, states an epigraph for this stunning new collection, his thirteenth, by the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry (2000). First traversing betrayal and loss, Stephen Dunn then moves to speak of new love, with its attendant pleasures and questioning....
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...
The House of Belonging
AuthorDavid Whyte
ISBN0962152439
Absolutely outstanding!
The House of Belonging

"I awoke
this morning
in the gold light
turning this way
and that

thinking for
a moment
it was one
day
like any other.

But
the veil had gone
from my
darkened heart
and
I...
The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN1555972845
William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems gathers unpublished works from his last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as...
Given
AuthorWendell Berry
ISBN1593761074
For five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award-winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his chosen place and the rooms and porches of his family's home. In Given — his first collection of new poems in ten years now in paperback — the...
On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poemas frente al mar (Bilingual)
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN0060591846
Aunque existe un sinnúmero de antologías de la poesía de Neruda, A la Orilla Azul del Silencio es la primera en reunir algunos de sus más bellos poemas sobre el mar. Algunas veces apasionados, otras veces serenos, los poemas de este libro -- presentado en formato bilingüe -- ofrecen al lector la...
Mornings Like This: Found Poems
AuthorAnnie Dillard
ISBN0060927259
For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of found poetry:

A pure found poem consists exclusively of outside texts: the words of the poem remain as they were found, with few additions or omissions. Decisions of form, such as where to break a line, are left to the poet. -definition from poets.org

So...
Triumph of Achilles
AuthorLouise Glück
ISBN0880010827
From the opening line ("It is not the moon, I tell you") Gluck claims absolute control of subject, craft, and perception. We see what we are instructed to see; we understand what Gluck insists we understand. Gluck's sensitivity to emotional nuance is extreme: "I ask you, how much beauty/ can a person...
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
AuthorMarie Howe
ISBN0393041999
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, Marie Howe, 68pp. We need more poetry, all of us. Buy this little book.

My Mother's Body

Bless my mother's body, the first song of her beating
heart and her breathing, her voice, which I could dimly hear,

grew louder. From inside her body I heard...
Like a Beggar
AuthorEllen Bass
Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015

Featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac

“Ellen Bass’s new poetry collection, Like a Beggar, pulses with sex, humor and compassion.”—The New York Times

“Bass tries to convey everyday wonder on contemporary experiences...
Man and Camel
AuthorMark Strand
ISBN0307262960
This eleventh collection by Mark Strand is a toast to life’s transience and abiding beauty. He begins with a group of light but haunting fables, populated by figures like the King, a tiny creature in ermine who has lost his desire to rule, and by the poet’s own alter ego, who recounts the fetching mystery...
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