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poetry books for sad girls: recs from a poet
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items looking for relatable, thought-provoking, gut-wrenching poetry collections? look no further. this list mainly features collections by BIPOC/women writers, considering topics from everyday life, to love, to existence. all recs are from a neurodivergen...
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an amazon top 5 poetry book within a week of release, a girl with kaleidoscope eyes is a poetry collection rooted in the intricate themes of neurodivergence and explores the universality of the human experience. this collection invites readers on a p...
A Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes
My Girl is the second installment of a poetry series that considers the universal human experience through a neurodivergent lens. Following A Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes, this collection focuses on the dynamic of a tumultuous, interpersonal relations...
My Girl
i genuinely wish i could read this for the first time again. absolutely incredible and heart-breaking.
here is the official description: “The Air Year is a time of flight, transition and suspension: signatures scribbled on the sky. Bird's speakers ...
The Air Year
this book was SO good as both a reader and fellow writer.
official description: “Part 1980s and 1990s nostalgia, part exuberant storytelling, I'M SO FINE: A LIST OF FAMOUS MEN & WHAT I HAD ON turns a sharply humorous magnifying glass onto gender...
I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
official description: “Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it int...
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
no words. one of my all-time favorites.
official description: “Titled from lyrics of the song “Nobody Home” by Pink Floyd, this well-thought poetry collection touches on the subjects of loss, love, pain, happiness, depression, abandonment, war, good...
Black Book of Poems
official description: “Helium is the debut poetry collection by internet phenom Rudy Francisco, whose work has defined poetry for a generation of new readers. Rudy's poems and quotes have been viewed and shared millions of times as he has traveled th...
Helium (Button Poetry)
official description: Poetry and art reflect on the ghouls, the demons, the angels, the saints, the fools, and the wise characters laboring in our minds.
Creatively narrated poetry leads the mindful on a journey for self-discovery, spiritual alignme...
The I in my Eye
official description: “From the celebrated author of Inward comes the second in series, a collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships.
In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo descri...
Clarity & Connection (The Inward Trilogy)
this book taught me the importance of perspective in a narrative and how it can be utilized as a literary device.
official description: “Everyone has an image of Laura Li, the most popular girl in school: "stone hearted", "warmhearted", "conceited d...
Split Image
official description: “You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection.
The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expan...
You Better Be Lightning (Button Poetry)
official description: “More than a poetry book, Love and Gaslight is a story. Divided into five chapters, it sparks with one woman's decision to leave an unhappy relationship. Her choice begins a painful unraveling. Poem by poem, she searches for los...
Love and Gaslight
official description: “Through a blend of personal experiences and shared collective pain, in I am The Rage, Dr. Martina McGowan engages readers in a vital dialogue about racial trauma and inequality. It seeks to transform outrage into understanding,...
I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection
official description: “Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a dis...
The Tradition
official description: “A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is “diso...
Bright Dead Things: Poems
official description: “WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its ...
WHEREAS: Poems
this collection is perfect for those dipping their toe into poetry, or those who prefer a more modern read. also a great option for those whose native language is not English looking for meaningful, digestible poetry.
Whiskey Words & Shovel Boxed Set Volume 1-3
classics
perhaps the greatest poet of all time. a classic. beautifully written. the work of rumi most reminds me of the quote “love in it’s essence is spiritual fire.”
official description: “Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrument...
The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
read this book before u consider settling for the aint shit men.
official description: “Love Letters of Great Men (Volume 2) is a collection of romantic love poems written by leading male historical figures. *** Volume 1 plays a key role in the plo...
Love Letters Of Great Men - Vol. 2
yes, this is children’s poetry. and yes, every adult should remind themselves of this book’s lesson.
The Giving Tree
official description: “Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including ten poems that have never before been collected. ...
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays