What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

10 best books like What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Adrienne Rich): How Long 'til Black Future Month?, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, Dead Babies, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, What Narcissism Means to Me, The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters, The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

Author	N.K. Jemisin
ISBN	0316491349

In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian...

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Author	Marlon James
ISBN	0735220174

In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.

Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy...

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Author

Gretchen McCulloch

A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.

Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...

How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry

Author	Edward Hirsch
ISBN	0156005662

How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse...

Dead Babies

Author

Martin Amis

If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P.G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel by the author of London Fields. The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a visit from a triad of Americans and a weekend of copious...

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Author	Cecelia Watson
ISBN	0062917935

A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark

The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing...

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness

Author	Carolyn Forché
ISBN	0393309762

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...

What Narcissism Means to Me

Author	Tony Hoagland
ISBN	1555973868

An eagerly awaited new collection of poems by contemporary favorite Tony Hoagland, author of Donkey Gospel

How did I come to believe in a government called Tony Hoagland?
With an economy based on flattery and self-protection?
and a sewage system of selective forgetting?
and...

The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters

Author	Emily Esfahani Smith
ISBN	0553419994

This wise, stirring book argues that the search for meaning can immeasurably deepen our lives and is far more fulfilling than the pursuit of personal happiness.

There is a myth in our culture that the search for meaning is some esoteric pursuit that you have to travel to a distant monastery or...

The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky

Author

N.K. Jemisin

This collectable boxed set edition includes all three books in N. K. Jemisin's incredible NYT bestselling and three-time Hugo award-winning Broken Earth Trilogy.

This complete collection would be a great gift for any occasion and includes The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone...

Whereas

Author	Layli Long Soldier
ISBN	1555977677

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...

The Perineum Technique

Author	Jérôme Mulot
ISBN	1683961838

JH and Sarah meet online regularly for virtual hookups. Obsessed with the brevity and solitariness of their connections, JH tries to convince Sarah to meet him in person. A strange seduction ensues when Sarah challenges JH to abstinence. The Perineum Technique is a meditation on intimacy in the era...