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The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems

10 best books like The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems (Molly McCully Brown): I Know Your Kind: Poems, Deaf Republic: Poems, The Tradition, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Virgin, Madness, Bestiary: Poems, Scribbled in the Dark: Poems, Lessons on Expulsion

I Know Your Kind: Poems
AuthorWilliam Brewer
ISBN1571314954
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,...
Deaf Republic: Poems
AuthorIlya Kaminsky
ISBN1555978312
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...
The Tradition
AuthorJericho Brown
ISBN1556594860
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation?...
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
AuthorChen Chen
ISBN1942683332
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes—all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces...
Calling a Wolf a Wolf
AuthorKaveh Akbar
ISBN1938584678
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." —Fanny Howe

This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous...
Virgin
AuthorAnalicia Sotelo
ISBN1571315004
Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo's debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman.

In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems...
Madness
AuthorSam Sax
ISBN0143131702
An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition

In this ---powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous...
Bestiary: Poems
AuthorDonika Kelly
ISBN1555977588
Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters--half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures--from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. Among them too...
Scribbled in the Dark: Poems
AuthorCharles Simic
ISBN0062661175
From the Pulitzer Prize—winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent, lyrical new poems—an American master at the height of his talent, shining light out into the dark

The latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums with the liveliness of the writer’s pen—Scribbled...
Lessons on Expulsion
AuthorErika L. Sánchez
ISBN1555977782
An award-winning and hard-hitting new voice in contemporary American poetry

The first time I ever came the light was weak and carnivorous.

I covered my eyes and the night cleared its dumb throat.

I heard my mother wringing her hands the next morning.

Of course I put...
Afterland
AuthorMai Der Vang
ISBN1555977707
The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn Forché

When I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter what
the current gives. When we reach the camp,

there will be thousands like us.
If I make it onto the plane, you must...
Whereas
AuthorLayli Long Soldier
ISBN1555977677
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award

WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our...
Not Here
AuthorHieu Minh Nguyen
My review, as well as my other thoughts on reading, also can be found on my blog.

Over the course of a few dozen poems, Nguyen confronts his relationship to space, memory, and pain as a queer Vietnamese-American man. The collection consists of a mix of long and short pieces, addressing everything...
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