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Books like Devotions
Loved Devotions by Mary Oliver? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from poetry, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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The Waste Land
The fractured, allusive poem that became the emblem of modernism; difficult, dazzling, endlessly studied.
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Tender, violent poems of family, war and desire; a striking debut collection.
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Beams
Beams, an e-text in four parts (Beams, Apparition Poems, Madame Psychosis, Virtual Pinball), is an exercise in conglomerating several different schools and strains of poetry: the Modern, the post-mode
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Borderlands
"Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume challenge how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps o
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And Still I Rise
Defiant, joyful poems of survival and self-worth; among the most quoted verse of the century.
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The new Oxford book of English verse, 1250-1950, chosen and edited by Helen Gardner
"Begins in 1250 and represents the full range of English non-dramatic verse over the next seven centuries"--Publisher's description.
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Death of a Naturalist
Earthy, precise poems of rural Ireland and boyhood; the debut of a Nobel laureate.
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Ariel
Fierce, exact late poems published after the poet's death; raw and technically brilliant.
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The Portable James Joyce
Contains: Dubliners Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- Exiles -- Collected Poems -- From Ulysses -- From Finnegans Wake.
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Tears and laughter
The God separated a spirit from Himself and fashioned it into Beauty. He showered upon her all the blessings of gracefulness and kindness. He gave her the cup of happiness and said, “Drink not from th