Wind in a Box
10 best books like Wind in a Box (Terrance Hayes): The Tradition, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, When My Brother Was an Aztec, Stag's Leap: Poems, Oceanic, Wild Is the Wind: Poems, Lessons on Expulsion, Ghost Of, The Body's Question, Eye Level: Poems
The Tradition
| Author | Jericho Brown |
| ISBN | 1556594860 |
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
| Author | Ocean Vuong |
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.
To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...
| Author | Natalie Díaz |
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| ISBN | 0375712259 |
In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart...
| Author | Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
| ISBN | 1556595263 |
| Author | Carl Phillips |
| ISBN | 0374290261 |
“What has restlessness been for?”
In Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for which the book is named—love at once restless, reckless, and yet...
| Author | Erika L. Sánchez |
| ISBN | 1555977782 |
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...
| Author | Diana Khoi Nguyen |
| ISBN | 1632430525 |
| Author | Tracy K. Smith |
| ISBN | 1555973914 |
Appetite. You are a phantom
In that far-off city where daylight
Climbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone.
--from "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y"
Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold...
| Author | Jenny Xie |
| ISBN | 1555978029 |
Whereas
| Author | Layli Long Soldier |
| ISBN | 1555977677 |
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...
Indecency
| Author | Justin Phillip Reed |
| ISBN | 1566895146 |
Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity...
Not Here
| Author | Hieu Minh Nguyen |
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...