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Loved And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou? 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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Devotions
A career-spanning selection from a poet of attention and the natural world; the perfect place to begin.
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Generation of vipers
"Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers ranks with the