World's Tallest Disaster: Poems
10 best books like World's Tallest Disaster: Poems (Cate Marvin): Some Ether, The Tunnel: Selected Poems, Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993, Song, Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems, A Hunger, Mosquito, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl: Poems, The Pajamaist, Indeed I Was Pleased With the World
| Author | Nick Flynn |
| ISBN | 1555973035 |
Winner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
Some Ether is one of the more remarkable debut collections of poetry to appear in America in recent memory. As Mark Doty has noted, "these poems are more than testimony; in lyrics of ringing...
| Author | Russell Edson |
| ISBN | 0932440657 |
Never having done any creative writing as an adult, I took my first writing course many years ago, back when I was in my late thirties. I was given conventional short stories and poems as models but nothing really clicked with me, that is, I knew I wanted to write but wasn’t really inspired by...
| Author | Heather McHugh |
| ISBN | 0819512168 |
| Author | Brigit Pegeen Kelly |
| ISBN | 1880238136 |
| Author | Brenda Shaughnessy |
| ISBN | 0374526982 |
"The next illogical step
in love poetry
The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world
always do sound like diseases.
It is because they are engorged.
G., I am a fool.
What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us.
Halfway...
| Author | Lucie Brock-Broido |
| ISBN | 0394758528 |
| Author | Alex Lemon |
| ISBN | 0977312747 |
| Author | Karyna McGlynn |
| ISBN | 1932511768 |
| Author | Matthew Zapruder |
| ISBN | 1556592442 |
“Zapruder’s hip lyricism offers both the slippery comedy and a surprisingly grave, ultimately winning, commitment to real people, emotions, locales.”—Publishers Weekly
Matthew Zapruder is a young poet reinvigorating American letters. In his second collection he...
| Author | Mary Ruefle |
| ISBN | 0887484670 |
Grief
First, it will comfort you to know there are crows.
And calipers for measuring the amount of sunshine
that can escape from under the shadows
of thought. Far out at sea ships go down
in a crippled light,...
| Author | Dean Young |
| ISBN | 0822956977 |
With rapid shifts between subject and tone, sometimes within single poems, Dean Young’s latest book explores the kaleidoscopic welter of art and life. Here parody does not exclude the cri de coeur any more than seriousness excludes...
| Author | Ashley Capps |
| ISBN | 1931968373 |
| Author | Gabrielle Calvocoressi |
| ISBN | 0892553154 |
| Author | Terrance Hayes |
| ISBN | 0143036866 |
Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase. He is very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a...
| Author | Roger Reeves |
| ISBN | 1556594488 |
| Author | Denis Johnson |
| ISBN | 0060926961 |
A little back story: My wife and I have very different literary tastes. When we moved in together and intermingled our books there was hardly any overlap; a Faulkner...
| Author | Olena Kalytiak Davis |
| ISBN | 1582343527 |
| Author | Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
| ISBN | 0971031088 |
No Planets Strike
| Author | Josh Bell |
| ISBN | 1932023216 |
| Author | Matthea Harvey |
| ISBN | 1555973965 |
as "intensely visual, mournfully comic and syntactically
inventive," offers her second stunning collection
Units are the engines
I understand best.
One betrayal, two.
Merrily, merrily, merrily.
-from...
| Author | Simone Muench |
—from the introduction by Carol...
| Author | Bob Hicok |
| ISBN | 1931229112 |
Girls on the Run
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0374526974 |
Girls on the Run is a poem loosely based on the works of the outsider artist Henry Darger (1892-1972), a recluse who toiled for decades at an enormous illustrated novel about the adventures of a plucky band of little girls. The Vivians are threatened...