The Orchard
10 best books like The Orchard (Brigit Pegeen Kelly): I Know Your Kind: Poems, Infidel, The Seven Ages, The Wellspring, Chuckling Whatsit, The Unswept Room, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Blood, Tin, Straw, Four Reincarnations: Poems, Ghost Of
Author | William Brewer |
ISBN | 1571314954 |
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limon, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia.
In West Virginia, fatal overdoses on opioids have spiked to three times the national average. In these poems,...
Author | Pornsak Pichetshote |
ISBN | 1534308369 |
A haunted house story for the 21st century, INFIDEL follows an American Muslim woman and her multi-racial neighbors who move into a building haunted by entities that feed off xenophobia.
Bestselling editor Pornsak Pichetshote (Swamp Thing, Daytripper, The Unwritten) makes his comics...
Author | Louise Glück |
ISBN | 0060933496 |
The Seven Ages was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1999.
The fierce, austerely beautiful, and visionary voice that has become Glück's
trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in unflinching awareness.
Many of the poems in this collection bear the familiar features...
Author | Sharon Olds |
ISBN | 0679765603 |
This is a beautiful collection of poems. Divided into four sections which are merely numbered, but might be crudely labelled: birth, adolescense, adulthood, and death, the poems deal with the stages of human existence, and are bold, stark, erotic, and unflinching in their descriptions of the activities...
Author | Richard Sala |
ISBN | 1560972815 |
A genre-defining masterpiece of graphic noir comes back into print.
In The Chuckling Whatsit, Sala weaves the gothic cartooning traditions of Edward Gorey and Charles Addams with a densely constructed, melodramatic murder mystery involving astrology, ghouls, academia and outsider...
Author | Sharon Olds |
ISBN | 0375709983 |
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation...
Author | Diane Seuss |
ISBN | 1555978061 |
Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Still life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezer-burned Dreamsicle
Still life with Easter Bunny twenty caged minks and rusty meat grinder
Still life with whiskey...
Author | Sharon Olds |
ISBN | 0375707352 |
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation...
Author | Max Ritvo |
ISBN | 1571314903 |
Published shortly after his death in August 2016 at age 25, Max Ritvo's collection of poetry is reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising. When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body.
The poems of Four Reincarnations are...
Author | Diana Khoi Nguyen |
ISBN | 1632430525 |
Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. By working with, in, and around the photographs that her brother left behind (from which...
The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds
Author | Leigh Calvez |
ISBN | 1632170264 |
A naturalist probes the forest, mainly at night, to comprehend the secret lives of owls in this book that will appeal to readers of "Crow Planet "and "H is for Hawk." Join Leiigh Calvez on adventures into the world of owls: owl-watching, avian science, and the deep forest often in the dead of night. These...
Author | Aracelis Girmay |
ISBN | 1942683022 |
Praise for Aracelis Girmay:
"[Girmay's] every loss—she calls them estrangements—is a yearning for connection across time and place; her every fragment is a bulwark against ruin." —
O, The Oprah Magazine
Taking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified as seas...